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Welcome to Episode 179 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the only complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. Each week we walk you through the Epicurean texts, and we discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. If you find the Epicurean worldview attractive, we invite you to join us in the study of Epicurus at EpicureanFriends.com, where you will find a discussion thread f…

In this episode (unless I decide to cut it out) I analogized at least some of the Epicurean speculations about the nature of the gods to the type of thing we do today, in speculating what life might be like in the future with great advances in medical technology and science. And of course that brings to mind a cultural example of this, which some of us are old enough to remember. The specifics of this video are not at all Epicurean as to god "starting over" and so forth, but it does have a catch…

Great notes Joshua - thank you!!!

In the section of this podcast where Joshua cited John Tyndal's Belfast address, I drew attention to a question of whether John Tyndal was going further than Frances Wright in being willing to draw deductions about things beyond the senses from observations that the senses do allow us to make. In editing that section it occurred to me to do a word search of "A Few Days In Athens" for "atoms," and the result surprised me. There is very little mention of atoms in AFDIA except brief mentions in Cha…

(Quote from Don) Oh definitely yes, we have not given that work nearly the attention it deserves. I will admit, however, that it's probably the most challenging of any that we might attack, and we'll definitely want to spend some time reading Sedley's analysis, and the extensive appendices by DeLacey in his book, before we tackle it. Right now my inclination is for us to go on the counterattack on ethics first, and deal with Cicero's "Book Two" of On Ends, so that we can begin to give Torquatus …

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