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    1. Cicero's "Academic Questions" 1

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    1. Episode 259 - Nothing Comes From Nothing 16

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    1. Episode 258 - There Is No Necessity To Live Under the Control of Necessity - Part 2 (Conclusion) 3

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    1. Episode 257 - There Is No Necessity To Live Under Necessity - Part 1 12

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    1. Episode 256 - Epicurean Gods: Real, Or Ideal Thought Constructs? 3

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    1. Episode 255 - Cotta Argues That Epicurean Gods Are As Despicable As Are Epicureans Themselves - CIcero's OTNOTG 30 14

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    1. An Anti-Epicurean Article - "The Meaning of Life Is Not Happiness" (For Future Reference) 12

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    1. Why Do We Consider The Absence of Pain To Be Pleasure? 18

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    1. Prolepsis / Anticipations As Epicurus' Answer to the MENO Problem 34

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    1. Video: Richard Dawkins v. Jordan Peterson (Mainly on Memes / Archetypes) 7

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    1. Episode 253 - How The "Riddle Of Epicurus" FIts Into the Epicurean View of The Gods - Cicero's OTNOTG 28 14

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    1. An Example of Stoic Logical Reasoning - On Divination

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