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New Graphics: Are You On Team Epicurus? | Comparison Chart: Epicurus vs. Other Philosophies | Chart Of Key Epicurean Quotations | Accelerating Study Of Canonics Through Philodemus' "On Methods Of Inference" | Note to all users: If you have a problem posting in any forum, please message Cassius  

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    1. Nietzsche As Potentially The Most Well-Known Modern Philosopher With Core Views Parallel With Epicurus

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    1. Episode 326 - EATAQ 08 - Who Cares About Infinite Divisibility? And Why? 2

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    1. Good and Bad Desire and Doubt In Epicurean Philosophy 2

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    1. Epicurus vs Kant and Modern Idealism - Introduction 15

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    1. Nietzsche's "Reason In Philosophy" - Consistent With Epicurus' Defense of the Senses And Criticism Of Otherworldliness?

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    1. Nietzsche's "The Problem Of Socrates" (Consistent With The Epicurean Criticism of Socrates?)

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    1. Episode 325 - EATAQ 07 - The False Platonic Division of The Universe Into A Force Which Causes And That Which The Force Acts Upon 3

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    1. Sunday Zoom - March 15, 2026 - 12:30 PM ET - Topic - Lucretius Book One Starting At Line 265 - Atoms Are Invisible 4

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    1. Comparing the Proof Requirements Of James Randi To Those of Epicurus

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    1. Welcome Cornelius Peripateticus! (A name we'll consider genericly rather than as being a dedicated Aristotelian!) 11

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    1. Sunday March 8, 2026 - Zoom Meeting - Lucretius Book Review - Starting Book One Line 215 - REMEMBER DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME CHANGE in US

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    1. Episode 323 - EATAQ 05 - The Pre-Epicurean View: Three Divisions of Philosophy And Three Divisions of Goods 2

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    1. Sunday February 22, 2026 - Zoom Meeting - Lucretius Book Review - Starting Book One Line 174 4

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    1. Episode 322 - EATAQ 04 - Epicurean Moral Outrage Against Socrates 3

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    1. An Analogy That Should Live Forever In Infamy Along With His Ridiculous "Cave" Analogy - Socrates' "Second Sailing" 9

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    1. New Graphic: Epicurus vs. Other Major Philosophies

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    1. Media Versions of Diogenes Laertius Life of Epicurus 1

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