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    1. Episode 314 - TD41 - Cicero Challenges Epicurus: Can Pleasures Really Overcome Pains? 2

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    1. How Should We Evaluate Abstractions? 2

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    1. Episode 313 - TD40 - Diagnosing When Words Are Empty Of Meaning 4

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    1. Freyr and Gullenbursti (and other pigs In Western mythology)

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    1. Cicero Rejects The Swerve But In The End Sides More With Epicurus Than With The Stoics As To "Fate"

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      • The Swerve And Determinism - There Is No Necessity To Live Under the Control of Necessity
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    1. "The Eyes Cannot Discover The Nature of Things" (Lucretius 4:379)

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    1. The Existence Of The Swerve Does Not Mean That "Anything Is Possible"

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    1. The Intersection Between The Epicurean Movement And Hanukkah 1

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    1. Episode 312 - TD39 - Word Games Are No Substitute For Reality 2

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    1. Latest Article by Elli Pensa - The Epic of Epicurus - Ithaca and the Garden - Dialectic and The Canon 3

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    1. Apollo vs Dionysus - The Philosophical Issues and Where Epicurus Fits In 2

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    1. Episode 311 - Is Pain The Only Reason We Should Be Concerned About Any Aspect Of Death And Dying? 2

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    1. More Renovations -- Updates to "Map" View To Make Topics Easier To Find 3

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    1. Happiness As Not Requiring Complete Absence of Pain 1

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      • Happiness and its Relationship to Pleasure
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    1. Episode 310 - TD38 - Neither Happiness Nor Virtue Are Binary States 4

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    1. "Clinamen Vitae - The swerve toward lived experience, where life is worthy of being lived" - Blog post by Elli

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    1. "Duty, Evolution, Neuroscience, Attic Tragedy, and Epicurean Philosophy" - Blog Post by Elli

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    1. "When Science Returns to the Hellenic Worldview: Empathy and Consciousness Redeemed" - Blog Post By Elli

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    1. Recent Blog Posts By Elli

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    1. 'Their God Is The Belly" / "The Root of All Good Is The Pleasure Of The Stomach" And Similar Attributions 13

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    1. Age of Disclosure -- CNN Review 2

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      • The Existence of Life Here And Elsewhere In The Universe
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    1. Episode 309 - TD37 - The Error of Basing Happiness On The Alleged Divinity Of The Human Mind 3

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    1. Latest Thoughts On Natural and Necessary Classification of Desires - Adding A FAQ entry 13

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      • November 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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