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    2. Episode 201 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 09 15

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      • November 11, 2023 at 1:46 PM
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      • November 22, 2023 at 1:08 PM
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    4. Joshua

      November 22, 2023 at 1:08 PM

    2. Episode 254 - The Skeptic Asks: Does Not Epicurus Undermine Religion As Much As Any Outright Atheist? - Cicero's OTNOTG 29 13

      • Cassius
      • November 9, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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      • November 11, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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    4. Cassius

      November 11, 2024 at 4:42 PM

    2. Episode One Hundred Five - More From Torquatus On The Key Doctrines of Epicurus 10

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      • January 14, 2022 at 10:19 AM
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      • January 25, 2022 at 2:26 PM
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    4. Scott

      January 25, 2022 at 2:26 PM

    2. Episode 194 - The Epicurean Arguments In Cicero's On Ends - Book One - Part 04 16

      • Cassius
      • September 30, 2023 at 11:51 AM
      • Cassius
      • October 3, 2023 at 1:08 PM
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    4. Cassius

      October 3, 2023 at 1:08 PM

    2. Episode 242 - Cicero's OTNOTG 17 - Is Truth A Matter Of Logic? 11

      • Cassius
      • August 17, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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      • August 21, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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    4. Cassius

      August 21, 2024 at 2:44 PM

    2. Episode 161 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 15 - Chapter 8 - Sensations, Anticipations, And Feelings 02 (Sensations and Not An Empiricist) 3

      • Cassius
      • February 10, 2023 at 5:27 PM
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      • February 14, 2023 at 7:50 PM
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    4. Cassius

      February 14, 2023 at 7:50 PM

    2. Episode One Hundred Eleven - Torquatus Summarizes The Significance of the Epicurus 12

      • Cassius
      • February 22, 2022 at 10:06 PM
      • Cassius
      • March 7, 2022 at 11:21 PM
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    4. Godfrey

      March 7, 2022 at 11:21 PM

    2. Episode Twenty-Nine - The Earth As Allegorical Mother of All 8

      • Cassius
      • August 2, 2020 at 8:06 PM
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    4. Cassius

      August 2, 2020 at 8:06 PM

    2. Episode Twelve - Nothing But Combinations Of Matter And Void 7

      • Cassius
      • March 22, 2020 at 6:46 PM
      • Cassius
      • July 24, 2021 at 3:34 AM
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    4. Paquin

      July 24, 2021 at 3:34 AM

    2. Episode Ten - The Void And Its Nature 5

      • Cassius
      • March 9, 2020 at 11:11 PM
      • Cassius
      • July 31, 2021 at 9:13 AM
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    4. Cassius

      July 31, 2021 at 9:13 AM

    2. Episode One Hundred Forty-Eight - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 04 - True Opinions And False Opinions About Epicurus 13

      • Cassius
      • November 7, 2022 at 7:04 AM
      • Cassius
      • November 16, 2022 at 10:53 AM
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    4. Kalosyni

      November 16, 2022 at 10:53 AM

    2. Episode Sixty-Six - The End of All Things (But Not Of The Universe Itself!) 7

      • Cassius
      • April 14, 2021 at 10:47 AM
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    4. Cassius

      April 14, 2021 at 10:47 AM

    2. Episode 267 - Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End In Itself - All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation. 34

      • Cassius
      • January 17, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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      • February 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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    4. Godfrey

      February 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM

    2. Episode 153 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 09 - The New Education 02 6

      • Cassius
      • December 16, 2022 at 4:38 PM
      • Cassius
      • December 27, 2022 at 4:04 PM
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    4. Don

      December 27, 2022 at 4:04 PM

    2. Episode One Hundred Nine - The Epicurean View of Friendship 11

      • Cassius
      • February 11, 2022 at 7:45 PM
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      • February 18, 2022 at 7:45 PM
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    4. Cassius

      February 18, 2022 at 7:45 PM

    2. Popularizing The Lucretius Today Podcast 10

      • Cassius
      • August 2, 2021 at 5:16 PM
      • Cassius
      • August 4, 2021 at 9:34 AM
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    4. Cassius

      August 4, 2021 at 9:34 AM

    2. Episode Seven - The Evidence That Nothing Comes From Nothing 7

      • Cassius
      • February 19, 2020 at 5:23 PM
      • Cassius
      • July 22, 2021 at 7:22 AM
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    4. Paquin

      July 22, 2021 at 7:22 AM

    2. Episode One Hundred Forty-Seven - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 03 - True Opinions And False Opinions About Epicurus 15

      • Cassius
      • November 3, 2022 at 9:24 AM
      • Cassius
      • November 10, 2022 at 10:26 AM
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    4. Don

      November 10, 2022 at 10:26 AM

    2. Episode One Hundred Twenty - Letter to Herodotus 09 - Epicurus' Rejection of Infinite Divisibility 10

      • Cassius
      • April 30, 2022 at 9:46 AM
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      • June 22, 2022 at 5:59 AM
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    4. Martin

      June 22, 2022 at 5:59 AM

    2. Episode Thirteen - Properties, Qualities, And the Trojan War 8

      • Cassius
      • March 29, 2020 at 11:05 AM
      • Cassius
      • April 10, 2020 at 4:30 PM
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    4. Don

      April 10, 2020 at 4:30 PM

    2. Episode 188 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 40 - Chapter 15 - Extension, Submergence, & Revival 03 20

      • Cassius
      • August 17, 2023 at 9:43 PM
      • Cassius
      • August 24, 2023 at 8:06 PM
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    4. Cassius

      August 24, 2023 at 8:06 PM

    2. Episode Thirty-One - Continuation of Episode Thirty / Polyaenus 9

      • Cassius
      • August 1, 2020 at 1:02 PM
      • Cassius
      • August 10, 2020 at 9:45 PM
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    4. Cassius

      August 10, 2020 at 9:45 PM

    2. Episode One Hundred Twenty-Seven - Letter to Pythocles 02 - The Formation of "Worlds" 16

      • Cassius
      • July 2, 2022 at 3:37 PM
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    4. Martin

      July 2, 2022 at 3:37 PM

    2. Episode 249 - Cicero's OTNOTG 24 - Are The Epicurean Gods Totally Inactive, And Are We To Emulate Them Through Laziness? 29

      • Cassius
      • October 2, 2024 at 4:16 PM
      • Cassius
      • January 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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    4. Bryan

      January 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM

    2. Episode Ninety-Six - The Proof That Pleasure (And Not Virtue) Is the Supreme Good 14

      • Cassius
      • November 10, 2021 at 10:57 AM
      • Cassius
      • November 20, 2021 at 10:02 PM
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    4. Cassius

      November 20, 2021 at 10:02 PM

    2. Episode 197 -LucretiusToday Interviews Dr. Marcelo Boeri 22

      • Cassius
      • October 22, 2023 at 7:36 AM
      • Cassius
      • October 25, 2023 at 3:52 PM
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    4. Cassius

      October 25, 2023 at 3:52 PM

    2. Episode 241 - Cicero's OTNOTG 16 - A Common Thread Between The Epicurean View Of "The Gods" and "The Good" 36

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      • August 8, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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    4. Cassius

      August 17, 2024 at 2:31 PM

    2. Episode 203 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 11 - Do The Senses Have Jurisdiction To Pronounce On The Supreme Good? 19

      • Cassius
      • November 26, 2023 at 6:58 AM
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      • December 2, 2023 at 6:20 AM
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    4. Cassius

      December 2, 2023 at 6:20 AM

    2. Episode Fifty-Eight - The Mind's Direct Receipt of Images 24

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      • February 13, 2021 at 10:07 AM
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      • May 19, 2024 at 9:51 PM
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    4. Julia

      May 19, 2024 at 9:51 PM

    2. Episode 156 - Lucretius Today Interviews Dr. Emily Austin - Part One 10

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      • January 10, 2023 at 12:58 AM
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      • November 1, 2023 at 3:06 PM
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    2. ⟐ as the symbol of the philosophy of Epicurus 90

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    2. Daily life of an ancient Epicurean

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    2. "All Models Are Wrong, But Some Are Useful" 5

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    2. Analysing movies through an Epicurean lens 16

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    2. Is All Desire Painful? How Would Epicurus Answer? 24

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