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    2. Episode Fifty-Three - The Senses Are Never Deceived, Even By Illusions 1

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      • January 9, 2021 at 8:48 AM
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      • January 16, 2021 at 6:44 PM
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    2. Episode 285 - TD15 - The Significance Of The Limits Of Pain 4

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      • June 19, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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    4. Don

      June 19, 2025 at 7:05 AM

    2. Episode One Hundred Twenty-Five - Letter to Herodotus 14 - Purpose and Method of Studying Nature - Completion of the Letter 2

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      • June 11, 2022 at 10:01 AM
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      June 11, 2022 at 10:01 AM

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

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      • October 30, 2020 at 10:12 PM
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      • November 7, 2020 at 9:55 AM
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      November 7, 2020 at 9:55 AM

    2. Episode 158 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 12 - The Canon, Reason, and Nature 03 3

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      • January 19, 2023 at 10:15 AM
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      • January 31, 2023 at 7:01 AM
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      January 31, 2023 at 7:01 AM

    2. Episode 192 - Special Edition - Chapter 16 of A Few Days In Athens 4

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      • September 12, 2023 at 6:47 PM
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      • September 19, 2023 at 1:11 PM
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      September 19, 2023 at 1:11 PM

    2. Episode Sixty-Four - Due To His Accomplishments, Epicurus Should Be Thought Of As Godlike 1

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      • March 25, 2021 at 8:18 PM
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      • March 30, 2021 at 9:10 PM
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      March 30, 2021 at 9:10 PM

    2. Episode 250 - Cicero's OTNOTG 25: The Relationship of "Images" To All Human Thought - Not Just To "The Gods" 5

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      • October 12, 2024 at 5:38 AM
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      • October 14, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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      October 14, 2024 at 2:54 PM

    2. Episode Fifteen - Recap Two 1

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      • April 26, 2020 at 4:39 PM
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      April 26, 2020 at 4:39 PM

    2. Episode 248 - Cicero's OTNOTG 23 - Cotta Pushes The "Argument By Design" Against The Epicurean View That All - Including Gods - Is Natural 2

      • Cassius
      • September 28, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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      • October 2, 2024 at 4:09 PM
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      October 2, 2024 at 4:09 PM

    2. Episode Sixty-Eight - This World Was Not Made By The Gods For Humanity 1

      • Cassius
      • April 19, 2021 at 11:32 AM
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      • April 27, 2021 at 9:48 PM
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      April 27, 2021 at 9:48 PM

    2. Episode Fifty-Six - More On The Operation of the Senses - Hearing And Taste 1

      • Cassius
      • January 25, 2021 at 4:58 PM
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      • February 6, 2021 at 6:39 PM
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      February 6, 2021 at 6:39 PM

    2. Episode Sixteen - The Atoms Are Un-Destroyable And Provide Continuity To All Nature 1

      • Cassius
      • April 26, 2020 at 6:09 AM
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      • April 27, 2020 at 10:32 AM
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      April 27, 2020 at 10:32 AM

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

      • Cassius
      • November 21, 2020 at 12:06 PM
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      • November 28, 2020 at 7:32 PM
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      November 28, 2020 at 7:32 PM

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

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      • April 2, 2023 at 12:27 PM
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      • April 12, 2023 at 4:45 PM
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      April 12, 2023 at 4:45 PM

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

      • Cassius
      • December 30, 2023 at 7:55 PM
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      • January 2, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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      January 2, 2024 at 2:34 PM

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

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      • October 17, 2021 at 8:57 AM
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      • October 18, 2021 at 9:57 AM
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      October 18, 2021 at 9:57 AM

    2. Episode Thirty-Seven: End of Book Two - The Earth Too Was Born, and It Will One Day Die 1

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      • September 14, 2020 at 9:33 AM
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      • September 26, 2020 at 8:26 PM
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      September 26, 2020 at 8:26 PM

    2. Episode Seventy-Five - The Rise of Life On Earth, And Which Forms Were Possible And Impossible 1

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      • June 17, 2021 at 9:20 PM
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    2. Episode Forty-Five - Further Arguments For the Mortality of the Soul 1

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      • November 13, 2020 at 8:05 PM
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      • November 20, 2020 at 8:25 PM
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      November 20, 2020 at 8:25 PM

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

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      • January 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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      January 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM

    2. Special Podcast Episode: Epicurus Against the Platonists / Aristotelians

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      • February 8, 2020 at 9:17 AM
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    2. Episode Fifty-Two - More on Light, Vision, and Reflections 1

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      • January 2, 2021 at 11:59 AM
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      • January 10, 2021 at 8:36 PM
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    2. Episode Seventy-Seven - Formation of Language and Early Societies 1

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      • July 2, 2021 at 3:44 PM
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    2. Episode 210 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 17 - Self-Approval As Pleasure 2

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      • January 13, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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    2. Episode Seventy-Nine - The Cause of the Arising of Belief In Gods 1

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      • July 16, 2021 at 7:20 AM
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    2. Episode One Hundred Thirty-One - Letter to Pythocles 05 - Weather Phenomena 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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      • November 7, 2020 at 11:02 AM
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    2. Episode 268 - Pleasure Is The Guide Of Life (The Role of Pleasure In Life) 7

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    2. Promo And Highlights For The Lucretius Podcast 1

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      • October 26, 2019 at 4:50 PM
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