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

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

Episode One Hundred Thirteen - Letter to Herodotus 02 - Principles of Thinking 4

Episode Ninety-Four: Torquatus Explains Pleasure As the Goal of Life 4

Episode Forty-Nine - The End of Book Three 4

Episode Twenty-Six - The Atoms Are Not Uniform 4

Episode Nineteen - All Things Are Not Made of Tiny Pieces of The Same Thing, Or Of All Things (Anaxagorus' Homoeomery) 4

Episode Eighteen - All Things Are Not Made of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water 4

Episode Eleven - More On The Void And Its Implications 4

Episode 350 - EATAQ32 - Addressing A Listener Question On The Flux And Real Life 3

Episode 340 - EATAQ22 - The Fatal Flaw in Socratic Skepticism 3

Episode 333 - EATAQ 15 - Epicurus Disputes The Stoic View Of The Sensations And The Anticipations 3

Episode 331 - EATAQ 13 - The Self-Defeating Paradox of Radical Skepticism 3

Episode 329 - EATAQ 11 - Cracks In The Academy On Ideal Forms And Virtue Lead To The Emergence of Aristotle, The Stoics, And Epicurus 3

Episode 325 - EATAQ 07 - The False Platonic Division of The Universe Into A Force Which Causes And That Which The Force Acts Upon 3

Episode 322 - EATAQ 04 - Epicurean Moral Outrage Against Socrates 3

Episode 316 - TD43 - "Happiness Is The Goal Of Life - A Life of Happiness Is A Life Of Pleasure" (Sixth Year Podcast Anniversary) 3

Episode 309 - TD37 - The Error of Basing Happiness On The Alleged Divinity Of The Human Mind 3

Episode 306 - TD34 - Is A Life That Is 99 Percent Happy Really Happy? 3

Episode 287 - TD17 - The Fear of Pain Is Overrated, But Cicero and Epicurus Disagree As To Why. 3

Episode 280 - TD11 - On Death And Daring To Live 3

Episode 276 - TD06 - Is Memory Evidence For The Divinity Of The Soul? 3

Episode 266 - The Epicurean Paradigm Shift 3

Episode 265 - The Deep-Set Boundary Stone - Epicurus and The Perils of Applying the Principles of Geometry to Ethical Philosophy 3

Episode 261 - Death Is Nothing To Us 3

Episode 258 - There Is No Necessity To Live Under the Control of Necessity - Part 2 (Conclusion) 3

Episode 256 - Epicurean Gods: Real, Or Ideal Thought Constructs? 3

Episode 232 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 07 - Velleius Attacks The Platonist And Aristotelian Views Of Gods 3

Episode 208 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 16 - Epicurus Stands For the Truth Rather than Make-Believe 3

Episode 198 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 07 3

Episode 175 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 27 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 04 3

Episode 169 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 22 - Chapter 10 - The New Freedom 02 3

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