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  5. Physics - The Nature of the Universe
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    2. Episode 251 - Cicero's OTNOTG 26 - How Niagara Falls Helps Us Understand the Flux, the Heap, and the Epicurean Gods 15

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      • October 18, 2024 at 3:54 AM
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      October 27, 2024 at 7:20 AM

    2. Episode Ninety-Seven - The Virtues as Instrumental For Pleasure: Temperance and Courage 16

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      • November 15, 2021 at 7:39 PM
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      • December 10, 2021 at 3:17 PM
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    4. Don

      December 10, 2021 at 3:17 PM

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

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

      July 2, 2022 at 3:37 PM

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

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

    2. Episode 226 - Cicero's On The Nature of The Gods - Epicurean Section 01 - Introduction 16

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      • April 21, 2024 at 11:31 AM
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      June 21, 2024 at 5:40 PM

    2. Episode 259 - Nothing Comes From Nothing 16

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      • November 18, 2024 at 2:09 PM
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      • December 23, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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      December 23, 2024 at 4:19 PM

    2. Episode Thirty-Two: The Atoms Are Colorless, But the Implications Are Not 17

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      • August 1, 2020 at 1:02 PM
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      • August 25, 2020 at 3:58 PM
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      August 25, 2020 at 3:58 PM

    2. Episode Fifty-One - The Workings of Images 17

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      • December 24, 2020 at 2:09 PM
      • Cassius
      • January 6, 2021 at 2:17 PM
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    4. Elayne

      January 6, 2021 at 2:17 PM

    2. Episode Ninety - Recap Of Atomism In Preparation for Details of Magnetism 17

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      • September 23, 2021 at 9:54 AM
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      • September 28, 2021 at 7:50 PM
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      September 28, 2021 at 7:50 PM

    2. Episode One Hundred Twenty-Nine - Letter to Pythocles 03 - The Implications Of the Epicurean Position On The Size of the Sun 17

      • Cassius
      • July 9, 2022 at 6:32 AM
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      July 9, 2022 at 6:32 AM

    2. Episode One Hundred Forty-Five - Part 01 (Chapter 1 of Epicurus And His Philosophy) 17

      • Cassius
      • October 16, 2022 at 8:17 PM
      • Cassius
      • November 2, 2022 at 8:58 PM
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      November 2, 2022 at 8:58 PM

    2. Episode 200 - Lucretius Today 200th Episode - Retrospective, Recap, and Looking To The Future 17

      • Cassius
      • October 30, 2023 at 3:04 AM
      • Cassius
      • November 16, 2023 at 6:20 PM
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    4. Pacatus

      November 16, 2023 at 6:20 PM

    2. Episode Three - So Great Is the Power of Religion To Inspire Evil Deeds! 18

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      • January 11, 2020 at 4:22 PM
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      • January 30, 2020 at 7:08 AM
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      January 30, 2020 at 7:08 AM

    2. Episode Thirty-Four - The Atoms Do Not Possess A Faculty of Sensation 18

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      • August 29, 2020 at 12:41 PM
      • Cassius
      • September 2, 2020 at 11:58 AM
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      September 2, 2020 at 11:58 AM

    2. Episode One Hundred Nineteen - Letter to Herodotus 08 - More On Perception Through The Atoms 18

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      • April 21, 2022 at 5:18 PM
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      • June 22, 2022 at 7:18 AM
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      June 22, 2022 at 7:18 AM

    2. Episode One Hundred Forty - The Letter to Menoeceus 07 - Completion of the Letter 18

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      • September 11, 2022 at 1:23 PM
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      • November 8, 2024 at 10:23 AM
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      November 8, 2024 at 10:23 AM

    2. Episode 230 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 05 - Velleius Attacks Misplaced Ideas of Divinity 18

      • Cassius
      • May 28, 2024 at 6:34 PM
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    4. Bryan

      May 28, 2024 at 6:34 PM

    2. Episode 244 - Cicero's OTNOTG 19 - Zeno's Paradoxes - Profundity Or Gaslighting? 18

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      • August 28, 2024 at 9:36 PM
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      September 4, 2024 at 7:55 AM

    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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    2. Episode Seventy-One - The Formation Of the World (Our Part of the Universe) 20

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      • May 20, 2021 at 7:33 AM
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    4. Don

      May 20, 2021 at 7:33 AM

    2. Episode Ninety-Five - Understanding The Paradoxical "Absence of Pain" 20

      • Cassius
      • November 5, 2021 at 9:35 PM
      • Cassius
      • November 13, 2021 at 6:29 PM
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      November 13, 2021 at 6:29 PM

    2. Episode 151 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 07 - "The New School In Athens" 20

      • Cassius
      • December 3, 2022 at 3:36 PM
      • Cassius
      • December 11, 2022 at 7:27 AM
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    4. Don

      December 11, 2022 at 7:27 AM

    2. Episode 155 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 11 - The Canon, Reason, and Nature 02 20

      • Cassius
      • January 2, 2023 at 4:51 PM
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      • January 11, 2023 at 5:41 AM
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    2. Episode 188 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 40 - Chapter 15 - Extension, Submergence, & Revival 03 20

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

    2. Episode Thirty - Only A Limited Number of Combinations of Atoms Is Possible 21

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      • August 10, 2020 at 11:27 PM
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    4. Don

      August 10, 2020 at 11:27 PM

    2. Episode Thirty-Three - More on The Implications of the Colorless Atoms 21

      • Cassius
      • August 21, 2020 at 5:07 PM
      • Cassius
      • August 28, 2020 at 9:13 PM
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      August 28, 2020 at 9:13 PM

    2. Episode 191 - Cicero's On Ends - Book One - Part 02 21

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      • September 3, 2023 at 9:36 PM
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      • September 17, 2023 at 4:13 PM
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      September 17, 2023 at 4:13 PM

    2. Episode Ninety-Nine - The Epicurean View of Justice (Part Two) 22

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      • December 2, 2021 at 4:05 PM
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      • December 11, 2021 at 6:08 PM
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    2. Episode One Hundred Six - The Epicurean Attitude Toward Fate / Fortune and the Role of Reason 22

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      • January 20, 2022 at 6:45 AM
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      January 29, 2022 at 8:55 PM

    2. Episode 168 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 21 - Chapter 10 - The New Freedom 01 22

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      • March 31, 2023 at 3:17 PM
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      • April 8, 2023 at 7:59 AM
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    2. Does The Wise Man Groan and Cry Out When On The Rack / Under Torture / In Extreme Pain? 17

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    2. New Translation of Epicurus' Works 1

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    2. Epicurean Emporium 9

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    2. The Religion of Nature - as supported by Lucretius' De Rerum Natura 2

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