Episode 300 - Looking Forward And Backward After 300 Episodes - Not Yet Recorded

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    Welcome to Episode 300 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the most complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world.

    Each week we walk you through the Epicurean texts, and we discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. If you find the Epicurean worldview attractive, we invite you to join us in the study of Epicurus at EpicureanFriends.com, where we discuss this and all of our podcast episodes.

    This week we will commemorate our 300th episode and relate where we have been over the years to where we are now as we dive into the details of Cicero's and Plutarch's criticism against Epicurus. We'll also take up Cicero's third criticism in Section XX, which is that Epicurus has erred in divorcing virtue from "the good."

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