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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
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Episode 264 - "Bread and Water!!?? Debunking The Myth of Epicurean Asceticism" 4
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January 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Episode 263 - "All Sensations Are True" 1
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January 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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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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January 12, 2025 at 10:23 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 261 - Death Is Nothing To Us 3
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December 23, 2024 at 2:25 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 259 - Nothing Comes From Nothing 16
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November 18, 2024 at 2:09 PM
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Episode One Hundred Thirty-Four - The Letter to Menoeceus 01- Context and Opening of the Letter 37
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August 2, 2022 at 8:50 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 257 - There Is No Necessity To Live Under Necessity - Part 1 12
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November 18, 2024 at 2:06 PM
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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 255 - Cotta Argues That Epicurean Gods Are As Despicable As Are Epicureans Themselves - CIcero's OTNOTG 30 2
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November 13, 2024 at 8:15 AM
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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 One Hundred Forty - The Letter to Menoeceus 07 - Completion of the Letter 18
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September 11, 2022 at 1:23 PM
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November 8, 2024 at 10:23 AM
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Episode 253 - How The "Riddle Of Epicurus" FIts Into the Epicurean View of The Gods - Cicero's OTNOTG 28 14
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October 27, 2024 at 11:13 AM
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Episode 252 - Why Reverence The Epicurean Gods? 6
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October 26, 2024 at 11:09 AM
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Episode 251 - Cicero's OTNOTG 26 - How Niagara Falls Helps Us Understand the Flux, the Heap, and the Epicurean Gods 15
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October 18, 2024 at 3:54 AM
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Episode One Hundred Forty-One - Proclaiming Epicurus To The World: Diogenes of Oinoanda (Part One) 37
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September 20, 2022 at 6:59 PM
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Episode One Hundred Forty-Three - Diogenes of Oinoanda (Part 3) The Superiority of The Epicurean Viewpoint on "Gods" 3
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October 5, 2022 at 10:51 AM
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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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Episode One Hundred Twenty-Three: Letter to Herodotus 12 - Events and Time 10
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May 20, 2022 at 5:20 PM
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Episode One Hundred Eighteen - Letter to Herodotus 07 - "Images" - There's More To Them Than Meets The Eye 29
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April 9, 2022 at 3:23 PM
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Episode 248 - Cicero's OTNOTG 23 - Cotta Pushes The "Argument By Design" Against The Epicurean View That All - Including Gods - Is Natural 2
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September 28, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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Episode 247 - Cicero's OTNOTG 22 - Cotta Continues To Attack The Epicurean View That Gods Are Natural Living Beings 9
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September 19, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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Episode 246 - Cicero's OTNOTG 21 - Examining Epicurean Evidence-Based Reasoning 15
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September 13, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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Episode 245 - Cicero's OTNOTG 20 - Right, Wrong, Or Incomplete? 10
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September 6, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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Episode 244 - Cicero's OTNOTG 19 - Zeno's Paradoxes - Profundity Or Gaslighting? 18
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August 28, 2024 at 9:36 PM
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Episode 243 Cicero's OTNOTG 18 - From "All Sensations Are True" to Reasoning By Similarity And Analogy 9
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August 23, 2024 at 9:34 AM
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Episode 242 - Cicero's OTNOTG 17 - Is Truth A Matter Of Logic? 11
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August 17, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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Philodemus' "On Anger" - General - Texts and Resources 20
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April 1, 2022 at 5:36 PM - Philodemus On Anger
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Mocking Epithets 3
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July 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM - Comparing Epicurus With Other Philosophers - General Discussion
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Best Lucretius translation? 12
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June 19, 2025 at 8:40 AM - General Discussion of "On The Nature of Things"
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The Religion of Nature - as supported by Lucretius' De Rerum Natura 4
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June 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM - General Discussion of "On The Nature of Things"
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New Blog Post From Elli - " Fanaticism and the Danger of Dogmatism in Political and Religious Thought: An Epicurean Reading"
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June 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM - Epicurus vs Abraham (Judaism, Christianity, Islam)
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