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    1. Kuriai Doxai - A Compilation of Translations by Nathan Bartman

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    1. Collecting Ancient Instances of the Argument: "Pleasure Cannot Be The Highest Good Because It Has No Limit" 19

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    1. Script of "A Few Days In Athens" Suitable For Performance 5

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    1. Episode One Hundred Two - Corollaries to the Doctrines - Part Two 30

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    1. Episode One Hundred One - Corollaries to the Doctrines - Part One 7

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    1. Pictures of "The Vatican Sayings" As Discovered in The Vatican 5

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    1. Episode One Hundred - Concluding On Justice With A Shout To Keep The Virtues In Their Proper Place 7

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    1. Episode Ninety-Nine - The Epicurean View of Justice (Part Two) 22

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    1. New Audio Version of Torquatus' Presentation of Epicurean Ethics - Read By Joshua 8

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    1. Episode Ninety-Eight - The Epicurean View of Justice (Part One) 15

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    1. Episode Ninety-Seven - The Virtues as Instrumental For Pleasure: Temperance and Courage 16

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    1. "For Life Has No Terrors . . . " 15

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    1. Episode Ninety-Six - The Proof That Pleasure (And Not Virtue) Is the Supreme Good 14

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    1. Episode Ninety-Five - Understanding The Paradoxical "Absence of Pain" 20

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    1. Episode Ninety-Four: Torquatus Explains Pleasure As the Goal of Life 4

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