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Episode 280 - TD11 - On Death And Daring To Live 3
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May 8, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Episode 281 - TD12 - Is Pain The Greatest Evil - Or Even An Evil At All? 6
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May 15, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Episode 282 - TD13 - Is A Trifling Pain A Greater Evil Than The Worst Infamy? 7
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May 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Episode 284 - TD14 - In Dealing With Pain, Does Practice Make Perfect? Or Does Practice Make For A Happy Life? 2
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Episode 285 - TD15 - The Significance Of The Limits Of Pain 4
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Episode 286 - TD16 - Confronting Pain With Reason Rather Than With "Virtue" 2
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June 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Episode 287 - TD17 - The Fear of Pain Is Overrated, But Cicero and Epicurus Disagree As To Why. 3
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Episode 288 - TD18 - Tusculan Disputations Part 3 - "Will The Wise Man Feel Grief Or Other Strong Emotions?" 11
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June 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Episode 289 - TD19 - "Epicureans Are Not Spocks!" 5
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Episode 290 - TD20 - TipToeing Around All Disturbance Is Not Living 12
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July 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Episode 291 - TD21 - Epicurus Pushes Back Against "Expect The Worst And You'll Never Be Disappointed" 6
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July 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Episode 292 - TD22 - Is Virtue Or Pleasure The Key To Overcoming Grief? 6
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July 26, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Episode 294 - TD24 - Distinguishing Dogs From Wolves And Pleasure From Absence of Pain 8
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August 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Episode 295 - Plutarch's Absurd Interpretation of Epicurean Absence of Pain 66
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August 14, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Episode 297 - TD25 - Is Philosophy At War With Perfume? 2
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August 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Episode 299 - TD27 - Was Epicurus Right That There Are Only Two Feelings - Pleasure And Pain? 23
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September 13, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Episode 301 - TD29 - Epicurus And The Question Of Ends Justifying Means 3
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September 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Episode Fourteen - Atoms Are Solid And Indestructible, and Constitute the Seeds of All Things. 6
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April 4, 2020 at 8:46 AM
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Episode Seventeen - All Things Are Not Made of Fire, And Heraclitus Was A Fool 2
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April 27, 2020 at 10:44 AM
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Episode Twenty-Eight - The Number of Shapes of Atoms Is Not Infinite, But Innumerable 5
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July 16, 2020 at 10:27 AM
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Episode Forty-Four - The Mind Cannot Continue to Exist Separately From The Body After Death 1
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November 7, 2020 at 11:02 AM
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Episode Forty-Eight - Nature Speaks To Us About Death 1
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December 5, 2020 at 9:19 AM
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Episode Forty-Nine - The End of Book Three 4
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December 11, 2020 at 10:09 PM
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Episode Fifty-Three - The Senses Are Never Deceived, Even By Illusions 1
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Episode Fifty-Four: Reason Is Dependent On The Senses 3
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Episode Sixty-Two - The Perils of Romantic Love (Part 2) 11
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March 12, 2021 at 10:06 AM
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Episode Seventy-Two - Alternative Explanations in Science, and The Size of The Sun 7
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Episode Seventy-Eight - Ethical Issues Arising In The Formation of Societies 2
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Episode Ninety-Three: Torquatus Leads Us Forward Into Conflict Over Epicurean Ethics 82
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Episode One Hundred Ten - The Epicurean View of Friendship (Part 2) 8
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Immutability of Epicurean school in ancient times 15
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July 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM - Uncategorized Discussion (General)
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Boris Nikolsky - Article On His Interest in Classical Philosophy (Original In Russian) 1
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September 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM - Articles Prepared By Professional Academics
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Boris Nikolsky's 2023 Summary Of His Thesis About Epicurus On Pleasure (From "Knife" Magazine)
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September 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM - Articles Prepared By Professional Academics
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