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    1. Episode Fifty-Nine - The Uses Of The Body Were Not Designed Before They Arose 2

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    1. "All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation" - Comparison of Translations 8

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    1. What In Your Opinion Are the Most Essential Characteristics Of "Being An Epicurean" (According to Epicurus)? 16

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    1. Episode Fifty-Eight - The Mind's Direct Receipt of Images 24

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    1. Epicurean Theology Compared to Mormon Theology 1

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    1. Key Passages in Lucretius On Images: The Impact of Images Directly On The Mind 5

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    1. Episode Fifty-Seven - Taste, Smell, and The Subjectivity of the Senses 2

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    1. Epicurus' View of Aristotle's "Theory of Universals"

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    1. Frances Wright's "On The Nature of Knowledge" - How Epicurean Is It? 1

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    1. Episode Fifty-Six - More On The Operation of the Senses - Hearing And Taste 1

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    1. Welcome FCenRed 4

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    1. Episode Fifty-Five - Reason Is Dependent On The Senses (Part 2) 56

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    1. Epicurus On Images 1

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    1. Key Citations - The Swerve - Its Nature And Effects

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    1. Epicurus On The Nature of the Soul And The Impossibility of Life After Death

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    1. Epicurus On The Issue of Impossibility of Infinite Divisibility

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    1. Key Citations - The Universe As Eternal In Time

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