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

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2. Episode 244 - Cicero's OTNOTG 19 - Zeno's Paradoxes - Profundity Or Gaslighting? 18
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2. Episode Forty - The Mind and Spirit Are Bodily, Composed of Very Fine Atoms 7
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2. Episode Forty-Eight - Nature Speaks To Us About Death 1
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2. Episode Forty-Five - Further Arguments For the Mortality of the Soul 1
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2. Episode Forty-Four - The Mind Cannot Continue to Exist Separately From The Body After Death 1
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2. Episode Forty-Nine - The End of Book Three 4
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2. Episode Forty-One - The Nature of the Mind and Spirit Is Complex; Sense is Not a Property of The Elements That Make Them, But An Event of Their Combination And Motions 2
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2. Episode Forty-Seven - Death is Nothing To Us 2
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2. Episode Forty-Six - Conclusion of the Argument That the Mind and Soul Cannot Survive Death 1
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2. Episode Forty-Three - The Mind is Born, Grows Old, and Dies With the Body 1
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2. Episode Forty-Two - The Mind works through the senses; it is a relatively small part of the body; the Mind has more power than the "spirit," but both mind and spirit are mortal 1
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2. Episode Four - Recap of Opening Sections of Book One 12
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2. Episode Fourteen - Atoms Are Solid And Indestructible, and Constitute the Seeds of All Things. 6
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4. Don
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2. Episode Nine - The Evidence That Atoms Exist, Even Though They Are Unseen 7
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4. Cassius
  October 19, 2021 at 2:35 PM
2. Episode Nineteen - All Things Are Not Made of Tiny Pieces of The Same Thing, Or Of All Things (Anaxagorus' Homoeomery) 4
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2. Episode Ninety - Recap Of Atomism In Preparation for Details of Magnetism 17
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2. Episode Ninety-Eight - The Epicurean View of Justice (Part One) 15
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2. Episode Ninety-Five - Understanding The Paradoxical "Absence of Pain" 20
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  - November 5, 2021 at 9:35 PM
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4. Cassius
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2. Episode Ninety-Four (Special) - General Discussion / Recap of Poem 1
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  October 18, 2021 at 9:57 AM
2. Episode Ninety-Four: Torquatus Explains Pleasure As the Goal of Life 4
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  - October 28, 2021 at 7:01 PM
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  November 6, 2021 at 10:18 AM
2. Episode Ninety-Nine - The Epicurean View of Justice (Part Two) 22
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2. Episode Ninety-One - More on Magnetism, and Introduction To Disease And Plagues 6
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2. Episode Ninety-Seven - The Virtues as Instrumental For Pleasure: Temperance and Courage 16
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2. Episode Ninety-Six - The Proof That Pleasure (And Not Virtue) Is the Supreme Good 14
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2. Episode Ninety-Three: Torquatus Leads Us Forward Into Conflict Over Epicurean Ethics 82
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2. Episode Ninety-Two - The Plague of Athens, and the End of the Poem 5
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2. Episode One - Venus / Pleasure As Guide of Life 15
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2. Episode One Hundred - Concluding On Justice With A Shout To Keep The Virtues In Their Proper Place 7
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4. Don
  December 18, 2021 at 8:36 AM
2. Episode One Hundred Eight - The Benefits of A Proper Understanding of the Senses and of Natural Science 42
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  February 13, 2022 at 6:16 AM
2. Episode One Hundred Eighteen - Letter to Herodotus 07 - "Images" - There's More To Them Than Meets The Eye 29
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4. Cassius
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2. Episode One Hundred Eleven - Torquatus Summarizes The Significance of the Epicurus 12
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Episode 244 - Cicero's OTNOTG 19 - Zeno's Paradoxes - Profundity Or Gaslighting? 18

Episode Forty - The Mind and Spirit Are Bodily, Composed of Very Fine Atoms 7

Episode Forty-Eight - Nature Speaks To Us About Death 1

Episode Forty-Five - Further Arguments For the Mortality of the Soul 1

Episode Forty-Four - The Mind Cannot Continue to Exist Separately From The Body After Death 1

Episode Forty-Nine - The End of Book Three 4

Episode Forty-One - The Nature of the Mind and Spirit Is Complex; Sense is Not a Property of The Elements That Make Them, But An Event of Their Combination And Motions 2

Episode Forty-Seven - Death is Nothing To Us 2

Episode Forty-Six - Conclusion of the Argument That the Mind and Soul Cannot Survive Death 1

Episode Forty-Three - The Mind is Born, Grows Old, and Dies With the Body 1

Episode Forty-Two - The Mind works through the senses; it is a relatively small part of the body; the Mind has more power than the "spirit," but both mind and spirit are mortal 1

Episode Four - Recap of Opening Sections of Book One 12

Episode Fourteen - Atoms Are Solid And Indestructible, and Constitute the Seeds of All Things. 6

Episode Nine - The Evidence That Atoms Exist, Even Though They Are Unseen 7

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

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

Episode Ninety-Eight - The Epicurean View of Justice (Part One) 15

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

Episode Ninety-Four (Special) - General Discussion / Recap of Poem 1

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

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

Episode Ninety-One - More on Magnetism, and Introduction To Disease And Plagues 6

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

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

Episode Ninety-Three: Torquatus Leads Us Forward Into Conflict Over Epicurean Ethics 82

Episode Ninety-Two - The Plague of Athens, and the End of the Poem 5

Episode One - Venus / Pleasure As Guide of Life 15

Episode One Hundred - Concluding On Justice With A Shout To Keep The Virtues In Their Proper Place 7

Episode One Hundred Eight - The Benefits of A Proper Understanding of the Senses and of Natural Science 42

Episode One Hundred Eighteen - Letter to Herodotus 07 - "Images" - There's More To Them Than Meets The Eye 29

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

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