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    1. Episode Nineteen - All Things Are Not Made of Tiny Pieces of The Same Thing, Or Of All Things (Anaxagorus' Homoeomery) 4

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    1. Speculation On The Origin of "A Few Days In Athens" 1

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    1. JAMES MILNE / MILL, Mentor of Frances Wright 1

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      • Epicurus vs. Bentham and Utilitarianism
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    1. Episode Eighteen - All Things Are Not Made of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water 4

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    1. Welcome ESCU! 2

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    1. The Problem of Leaving "Ataraxia" Untranslated 1

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      • The Term "Pleasure" Means The Same As "Absence of Pain," And Includes All Experience Which Is Not Painful Not Painful
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    1. Discussion of Article: "Caricatures to the Left of Them, Caricatures to the Right of Them, Caricatures In Front of Them, Volleyed and Thundered" 3

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    1. Welcome Pompadour!

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    1. Epicurean Ethics And the Coronavirus Episode - A Starting Point 3

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    1. Episode Seventeen - All Things Are Not Made of Fire, And Heraclitus Was A Fool 2

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    1. Episode Sixteen - The Atoms Are Un-Destroyable And Provide Continuity To All Nature 1

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    1. The Doctrine of Necessity In "A Few Days In Athens"

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    1. Cassius Longinus' Letters to and From Cicero 3

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    1. Article by Norman DeWitt: Epicurus, ΠϵρὶΦαντασίας (Present Impressions of the Mind) 2

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    1. Article: Norman DeWitt - "Epicurean Kinetics" (Examining a Passage on Motion To Illuminate the Canon of Truth) 1

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    1. On Syllogisms And the Differences Between Aristotle/Plato and Epicurus 1

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    1. Episode Fourteen - Atoms Are Solid And Indestructible, and Constitute the Seeds of All Things. 6

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