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Episode 281 - TD12 - Is Pain The Greatest Evil - Or Even An Evil At All? 6
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May 15, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Episode Thirty-Five - More Reasons Why The Atoms Cannot Possess The Faculty of Sense 2
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Episode 282 - TD13 - Is A Trifling Pain A Greater Evil Than The Worst Infamy? 7
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Episode One Hundred Thirty-One - Letter to Pythocles 05 - Weather Phenomena 1
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Episode 232 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 07 - Velleius Attacks The Platonist And Aristotelian Views Of Gods 3
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Episode 256 - Epicurean Gods: Real, Or Ideal Thought Constructs? 3
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November 18, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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Episode 165 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 19 - Chapter 9 - The New Physics 01 1
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Episode Fifty - Opening of Book Four - Beginning the DIscussion of Images 2
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Episode Twenty-Three - The Motion Of The Atoms Continues Without Resting Place, and At Great Speed 1
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June 12, 2020 at 4:18 PM
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Episode 261 - Death Is Nothing To Us 3
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December 23, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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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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October 17, 2020 at 12:00 PM
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Episode 262 - He Who Says "Nothing Can Be Known" Knows Nothing 4
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December 29, 2024 at 12:06 PM
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Episode Seventeen - All Things Are Not Made of Fire, And Heraclitus Was A Fool 2
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April 27, 2020 at 10:44 AM
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Episode 258 - There Is No Necessity To Live Under the Control of Necessity - Part 2 (Conclusion) 3
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November 18, 2024 at 2:07 PM
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Episode Forty-Eight - Nature Speaks To Us About Death 1
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December 5, 2020 at 9:19 AM
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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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Episode 290 - TD20 - TipToeing Around All Disturbance Is Not Living 12
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July 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Episode Seventy-Four - Eclipses, And The Beginnings of Life on Earth 1
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June 3, 2021 at 5:09 PM
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Episode 284 - TD14 - In Dealing With Pain, Does Practice Make Perfect? Or Does Practice Make For A Happy Life? 2
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May 31, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Episode 288 - TD18 - Tusculan Disputations Part 3 - "Will The Wise Man Feel Grief Or Other Strong Emotions?" 11
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June 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Episode 187 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 39 - Chapter 15 - Extension, Submergence, & Revival 02 1
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Episode Eighty-Three - Meteorology: Thunder and Lightning Part One 2
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August 6, 2021 at 5:19 PM
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Episode Twenty - The Universe Is Infinite In Size 1
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May 23, 2020 at 3:08 PM
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Episode 260 - The Universe Is Infinite And Eternal And Has No Gods Over It 4
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December 18, 2024 at 10:25 PM
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Episode Sixty-Nine - The End of Our World 1
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April 27, 2021 at 10:22 PM
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Episode 278 - TD08 - Two Opposite Views On When We Might Be Better Off Dead 4
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April 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Episode Fifty-Three - The Senses Are Never Deceived, Even By Illusions 1
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Episode Thirty-Six - No Single Thing of A Kind: Earth Not The Only Home of Life 1
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Episode Twenty-Five - The Swerve Part II - As the Basis of Human Agency 1
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June 24, 2020 at 2:59 PM
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Episode Sixty-Three - The Perils of Romantic Love (Part 3) 1
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March 17, 2021 at 10:01 AM
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Immutability of Epicurean school in ancient times 15
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July 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM - Uncategorized Discussion (General)
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Boris Nikolsky - Article On His Interest in Classical Philosophy (Original In Russian) 1
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September 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM - Articles Prepared By Professional Academics
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Boris Nikolsky's 2023 Summary Of His Thesis About Epicurus On Pleasure (From "Knife" Magazine)
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September 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM - Articles Prepared By Professional Academics
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