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Episode 254 - The Skeptic Asks: Does Not Epicurus Undermine Religion As Much As Any Outright Atheist? - Cicero's OTNOTG 29 13
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November 9, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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Episode 230 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 05 - Velleius Attacks Misplaced Ideas of Divinity 18
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Episode One Hundred Forty-Seven - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 03 - True Opinions And False Opinions About Epicurus 15
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Episode One Hundred Twenty-Seven - Letter to Pythocles 02 - The Formation of "Worlds" 16
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Episode 188 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 40 - Chapter 15 - Extension, Submergence, & Revival 03 20
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Episode Ninety-Six - The Proof That Pleasure (And Not Virtue) Is the Supreme Good 14
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Episode 270 - Life Is Desirable, But Unlimited Time Contains No Greater Pleasure Than Limited Time 48
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Episode Thirty-Nine - The Mind And Spirit Are Not Supernatural But Parts of A Man Just Like The Head and Foot 11
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September 29, 2020 at 6:08 PM
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Episode 156 - Lucretius Today Interviews Dr. Emily Austin - Part One 10
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January 10, 2023 at 12:58 AM
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Episode 197 -LucretiusToday Interviews Dr. Marcelo Boeri 22
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October 22, 2023 at 7:36 AM
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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 Ninety-Eight - The Epicurean View of Justice (Part One) 15
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November 26, 2021 at 1:51 PM
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An Epicurean Podcast 12
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Episode 203 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 11 - Do The Senses Have Jurisdiction To Pronounce On The Supreme Good? 19
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November 26, 2023 at 6:58 AM
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Episode One Hundred Forty-Five - Part 01 (Chapter 1 of Epicurus And His Philosophy) 17
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Episode Fifty-Eight - The Mind's Direct Receipt of Images 24
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February 13, 2021 at 10:07 AM
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Episode One Hundred Seventeen - Letter to Herodotus 06 - The Doctrine of Infinity of Worlds And Its Implications 15
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April 7, 2022 at 9:57 PM
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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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Episode 200 - Lucretius Today 200th Episode - Retrospective, Recap, and Looking To The Future 17
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October 30, 2023 at 3:04 AM
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Episode 249 - Cicero's OTNOTG 24 - Are The Epicurean Gods Totally Inactive, And Are We To Emulate Them Through Laziness? 29
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October 2, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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Episode Four - Recap of Opening Sections of Book One 12
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January 26, 2020 at 8:53 AM
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Episode One Hundred Fifteen - Letter to Herodotus 04 - Atoms, Void, and Basic Epistemology Issues 15
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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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Episode 151 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 07 - "The New School In Athens" 20
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Episode Sixty-Five - Introducing A New Panelist (Don) and Recapping the Opening of Book Five 14
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March 30, 2021 at 9:33 PM
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Episode Ninety - Recap Of Atomism In Preparation for Details of Magnetism 17
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Episode 241 - Cicero's OTNOTG 16 - A Common Thread Between The Epicurean View Of "The Gods" and "The Good" 36
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Episode 168 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 21 - Chapter 10 - The New Freedom 01 22
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Episode One Hundred Twenty-Nine - Letter to Pythocles 03 - The Implications Of the Epicurean Position On The Size of the Sun 17
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Episode 267 - Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End In Itself - All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation. 34
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Grumphism? LOL
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Beyond Stoicism (2025) 20
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Immutability of Epicurean school in ancient times 11
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Recorded Statements of Metrodorus 11
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