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    1. Episode Forty-One - The Nature of the Mind and Spirit Is Complex; Sense is Not a Property of The Elements That Make Them, But An Event of Their Combination And Motions 2

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    1. Epicurean Idioms To Be Deciphered - "Against him who places himself with head where his feet should be." 2

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      • He Who Says Nothing Can Be Known Knows Nothing - Rejection of Skepticism
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    1. Elayne Reviews Alan Reye's Editorial on Thomas Jefferson 2

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    1. Welcome GeorgeS! 5

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    1. Episode Forty - The Mind and Spirit Are Bodily, Composed of Very Fine Atoms 7

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    1. Consequence & Justice in Restraint & Reformation in Torquatus (Cicero's On Ends) 1

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    1. The Wormwood Illustration In Lucretius 3

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      • General Discussion of "On The Nature of Things"
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    1. Commentary by Elayne On "Ideal Epicurean Jobs" 1

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      • Epicurean Life Strategies for Modern Times
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    1. Responding To A Video Entitled: "Quantum Physics Debunks Materialism" - Collecting Arguments Against Anti-Epicurean Uses of Quantum Physics Theories 25

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      • Physics - General Discussion
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    1. Episode Thirty-Nine - The Mind And Spirit Are Not Supernatural But Parts of A Man Just Like The Head and Foot 11

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    1. David Sedley: "Epicurus On Dialectic" (With Lots of Discussion of the "Bat Riddle")

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      • The Priority of Nature Over Reason
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    1. Episode Thirty-Eight: Start of Book Three - Epicurus Our Guide Who Dispels The Darkness of Error and Fear of Hell 6

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    1. Welcome Susan Hill! 11

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    1. What Evidence Do We Have That Frances Wright Personally Was An Epicurean? 13

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    1. Request For Suggestions For Entries in This "Epicurean Figures of the Past" Forum 6

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      • Search and Identification of Past Epicureans, Real or Fictional
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    1. Philonides of Laodicea (NewEpicurean blog post)

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    1. Cornelius Nepos' "Life of Atticus"

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    1. Phaedrus - General Info

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    1. Caesar the Epicurean - Bourne - 1977 3

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    1. Comment at the Epicurean Philosophy Facebook Group On Pleasure As The Highest Good 23

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      • "Good" and "Evil" Consist Only in Sensation
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    1. Episode Thirty-Seven: End of Book Two - The Earth Too Was Born, and It Will One Day Die 1

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    1. Episode Thirty-Six - No Single Thing of A Kind: Earth Not The Only Home of Life 1

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    1. Post At Modern Epicurean Blog - "Epicurean Ethics Considered And Defended" 7

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    1. Stoic Objections to Epicurean Doctrine on Infinity of The Universe 11

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      • August 31, 2020 at 10:39 AM
      • The Universe Is Eternal In Space
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    1. Episode Thirty-Five - More Reasons Why The Atoms Cannot Possess The Faculty of Sense 2

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