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Episode 357 — "A Brief Word On Sextus Empiricus And The Goal Of Skepticism"

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2. Episode One Hundred Twenty-Six - Letter to Pythocles 01 - Introduction - On The Basic Approach of Epicurean Philosophy 9
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2. Episode 183 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 35 - Chapter 14 - The New Virtues 06 - Honesty 9
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2. Episode 215 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 22 - The Epicurean View Of Happiness 9
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2. Episode 243 Cicero's OTNOTG 18 - From "All Sensations Are True" to Reasoning By Similarity And Analogy 9
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2. Episode 247 - Cicero's OTNOTG 22 - Cotta Continues To Attack The Epicurean View That Gods Are Natural Living Beings 9
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2. Episode 211 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 18 - Battle Of The Images 10
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2. Episode 222 - Revisiting the Relationship Between Happiness and Pleasure 10
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2. Episode 245 - Cicero's OTNOTG 20 - Right, Wrong, Or Incomplete? 10
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Episode 244 - Cicero's OTNOTG 19 - Zeno's Paradoxes - Profundity Or Gaslighting? 18

Episode 214 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 21 - Cicero Argues For An Ideal View of Friendship and Happiness Which Epicureans Reject 8

Episode 228 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 03 - Velleius Asks "What Woke The Gods To Create The World?" 8

Episode 294 - TD24 - Distinguishing Dogs From Wolves And Pleasure From Absence of Pain 8

Episode 319 - EATAQ 01 - Epicurean Answers To Academic Questions - Is the Key To Happiness Found In Supernatural Causes and Geometry? 8

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

Episode One Hundred Three - Corollaries to the Doctrines - Part Three 9

Episode One Hundred Twenty-Six - Letter to Pythocles 01 - Introduction - On The Basic Approach of Epicurean Philosophy 9

Episode 163 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 17 - Chapter 8 - Sensations, Anticipations, And Feelings 04 9

Episode 167 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 20 - Chapter 9 - The New Physics 02 9

Episode 180 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 32 - Chapter 13 - The True Piety 03 9

Episode 183 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 35 - Chapter 14 - The New Virtues 06 - Honesty 9

Episode 215 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 22 - The Epicurean View Of Happiness 9

Episode 233 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 08 - An Epicurean Attack On The False God Of Stoicism 9

Episode 243 Cicero's OTNOTG 18 - From "All Sensations Are True" to Reasoning By Similarity And Analogy 9

Episode 247 - Cicero's OTNOTG 22 - Cotta Continues To Attack The Epicurean View That Gods Are Natural Living Beings 9

Episode 293 - TD23 - Cicero Accuses Epicurus Of Evasion In Calling "Absence of Pain" A "Pleasure" 9

Popularizing The Lucretius Today Podcast 10

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

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

Episode One Hundred Twenty-Three: Letter to Herodotus 12 - Events and Time 10

Episode One Hundred Thirty-Six - The Letter to Menoeceus 03 - On Death (Part One) 10

Episode One Hundred Forty-Six - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 02 - The Three Divisions of Epicurean Philosophy 10

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

Episode 179 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 31 - Chapter 13 - The True Piety 02 10

Episode 186 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 38 - Chapter 15 - Extension, Submergence, & Revival 01 10

Episode 211 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 18 - Battle Of The Images 10

Episode 222 - Revisiting the Relationship Between Happiness and Pleasure 10

Episode 238 - Cicero's OTNOTG 13 - Velleius Erupts Against Stoic Fate and Supernatural God-Making 10

Episode 245 - Cicero's OTNOTG 20 - Right, Wrong, Or Incomplete? 10

Episode 303 - TD31 - Is It Truly Impossible To Advocate For Epicurus In The Public Sphere? 10

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