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    2. Complete Episode Guide

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    2. Episodes Of Lucretius Today Available At Archive.org 4

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    2. Text And Reference Links - Lucretius Today Podcast 9

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    4. Don

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    2. Episode 270 - Life Is Desirable, But Unlimited Time Contains No Greater Pleasure Than Limited Time 1

      • Cassius
      • February 20, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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      February 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM

    2. Episode 269 - By Pleasure We Mean All Experience That Is Not Painful (By Pleasure We Mean Absence of Pain)

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      • February 10, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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    2. Episode 268 - Pleasure Is The Guide Of Life (The Role of Pleasure In Life) 7

      • Cassius
      • February 10, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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    4. Kalosyni

      February 21, 2025 at 8:15 AM

    2. Episode 266 - The Epicurean Paradigm Shift 3

      • Cassius
      • February 2, 2025 at 9:48 AM
      • Cassius
      • February 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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    4. Bryan

      February 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM

    2. Episode 265 - The Deep-Set Boundary Stone - Epicurus and The Perils of Applying the Principles of Geometry to Ethical Philosophy 3

      • Cassius
      • January 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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      January 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM

    2. Episode 267 - Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End In Itself - All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation. 34

      • Cassius
      • January 17, 2025 at 8:19 AM
      • Cassius
      • February 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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      February 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM

    2. Episode 264 - "Bread and Water!!?? Debunking The Myth of Epicurean Asceticism" 4

      • Cassius
      • January 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
      • Cassius
      • January 25, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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    4. Don

      January 25, 2025 at 7:50 AM

    2. Episode 263 - "All Sensations Are True" 1

      • Cassius
      • January 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
      • Cassius
      • January 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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      January 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM

    2. Episode 262 - He Who Says "Nothing Can Be Known" Knows Nothing 4

      • Cassius
      • December 29, 2024 at 12:06 PM
      • Cassius
      • January 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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    4. Eikadistes

      January 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM

    2. Episode 261 - Death Is Nothing To Us 3

      • Cassius
      • December 23, 2024 at 2:25 PM
      • Cassius
      • December 30, 2024 at 9:05 PM
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      December 30, 2024 at 9:05 PM

    2. Episode 260 - The Universe Is Infinite And Eternal And Has No Gods Over It 4

      • Cassius
      • December 18, 2024 at 10:25 PM
      • Cassius
      • December 24, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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    4. Cassius

      December 24, 2024 at 4:08 PM

    2. Episode 259 - Nothing Comes From Nothing 16

      • Cassius
      • November 18, 2024 at 2:09 PM
      • Cassius
      • December 23, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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    4. Pacatus

      December 23, 2024 at 4:19 PM

    2. Episode 258 - There Is No Necessity To Live Under the Control of Necessity - Part 2 (Conclusion) 3

      • Cassius
      • November 18, 2024 at 2:07 PM
      • Cassius
      • December 9, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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      December 9, 2024 at 5:12 PM

    2. Episode 257 - There Is No Necessity To Live Under Necessity - Part 1 12

      • Cassius
      • November 18, 2024 at 2:06 PM
      • Cassius
      • December 6, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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    4. Cassius

      December 6, 2024 at 4:02 PM

    2. Episode 256 - Epicurean Gods: Real, Or Ideal Thought Constructs? 3

      • Cassius
      • November 18, 2024 at 2:05 PM
      • Cassius
      • November 26, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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    4. Cassius

      November 26, 2024 at 5:31 PM

    2. Episode 255 - Cotta Argues That Epicurean Gods Are As Despicable As Are Epicureans Themselves - CIcero's OTNOTG 30 2

      • Cassius
      • November 13, 2024 at 8:15 AM
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      • November 18, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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      November 18, 2024 at 1:38 PM

    2. Episode 254 - The Skeptic Asks: Does Not Epicurus Undermine Religion As Much As Any Outright Atheist? - Cicero's OTNOTG 29 13

      • Cassius
      • November 9, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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      • November 11, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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    4. Cassius

      November 11, 2024 at 4:42 PM

    2. Episode 253 - How The "Riddle Of Epicurus" FIts Into the Epicurean View of The Gods - Cicero's OTNOTG 28 14

      • Cassius
      • October 27, 2024 at 11:13 AM
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      • November 5, 2024 at 6:46 PM
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    4. Cassius

      November 5, 2024 at 6:46 PM

    2. Episode 252 - Why Reverence The Epicurean Gods? 6

      • Cassius
      • October 26, 2024 at 11:09 AM
      • Cassius
      • October 29, 2024 at 11:02 AM
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    4. Cassius

      October 29, 2024 at 11:02 AM

    2. Episode 251 - Cicero's OTNOTG 26 - How Niagara Falls Helps Us Understand the Flux, the Heap, and the Epicurean Gods 15

      • Cassius
      • October 18, 2024 at 3:54 AM
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      • October 27, 2024 at 7:20 AM
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      October 27, 2024 at 7:20 AM

    2. Episode 250 - Cicero's OTNOTG 25: The Relationship of "Images" To All Human Thought - Not Just To "The Gods" 5

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      • October 12, 2024 at 5:38 AM
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      • October 14, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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    2. Episode 249 - Cicero's OTNOTG 24 - Are The Epicurean Gods Totally Inactive, And Are We To Emulate Them Through Laziness? 29

      • Cassius
      • October 2, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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      • January 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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    4. Bryan

      January 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM

    2. Episode 248 - Cicero's OTNOTG 23 - Cotta Pushes The "Argument By Design" Against The Epicurean View That All - Including Gods - Is Natural 2

      • Cassius
      • September 28, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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      October 2, 2024 at 4:09 PM

    2. Episode 247 - Cicero's OTNOTG 22 - Cotta Continues To Attack The Epicurean View That Gods Are Natural Living Beings 9

      • Cassius
      • September 19, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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    4. Cassius

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    2. Episode 246 - Cicero's OTNOTG 21 - Examining Epicurean Evidence-Based Reasoning 15

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      • September 13, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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      • September 19, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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    2. Episode 245 - Cicero's OTNOTG 20 - Right, Wrong, Or Incomplete? 10

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      • September 6, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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      • September 15, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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    2. Episode 244 - Cicero's OTNOTG 19 - Zeno's Paradoxes - Profundity Or Gaslighting? 18

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      • August 28, 2024 at 9:36 PM
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      • September 4, 2024 at 7:55 AM
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    2. Episode 243 Cicero's OTNOTG 18 - From "All Sensations Are True" to Reasoning By Similarity And Analogy 9

      • Cassius
      • August 23, 2024 at 9:34 AM
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      • August 28, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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      August 28, 2024 at 2:17 PM

    2. Episode 242 - Cicero's OTNOTG 17 - Is Truth A Matter Of Logic? 11

      • Cassius
      • August 17, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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      • August 21, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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    4. Cassius

      August 21, 2024 at 2:44 PM

    2. Episode 241 - Cicero's OTNOTG 16 - A Common Thread Between The Epicurean View Of "The Gods" and "The Good" 36

      • Cassius
      • August 8, 2024 at 6:17 PM
      • Cassius
      • August 17, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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    4. Cassius

      August 17, 2024 at 2:31 PM

    2. Episode 240 - Cicero's OTNOTG 15 - The False Allegation That "General Assent" Was The Epicurean Basis For Divinity 7

      • Cassius
      • August 1, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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      • August 6, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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    4. Don

      August 6, 2024 at 11:03 PM

    2. Episode 239 - Cicero's OTNOTG 14 - The Dishonesty Of Academic Skepticism vs. Epicurus' Commitment To Truth 7

      • Cassius
      • July 30, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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    4. Cassius

      July 30, 2024 at 1:04 PM

    2. Episode 238 - Cicero's OTNOTG 13 - Velleius Erupts Against Stoic Fate and Supernatural God-Making 10

      • Cassius
      • July 27, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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    2. Episode 237 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 12 - Isonomia And The Implications of Infinity 34

      • Cassius
      • July 17, 2024 at 2:01 PM
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      July 17, 2024 at 2:01 PM

    2. Episode 236 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 11 - Lucretian Support For Velleius' Views of Epicurean Divinity 4

      • Cassius
      • July 11, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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      July 11, 2024 at 12:41 PM

    2. Episode 235 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 10 - Velleius Explains the Epicurean Proleptic View Of Divinity 5

      • Cassius
      • August 10, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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    2. Episode 234 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 09 - Dealing With Marcus Aurelius And The Canonical Basis For the Epicurean View Of Divinity 80

      • Cassius
      • July 7, 2024 at 11:30 AM
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    4. Don

      July 7, 2024 at 11:30 AM

    2. Episode 233 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 08 - An Epicurean Attack On The False God Of Stoicism 9

      • Cassius
      • June 21, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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    2. Episode 232 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 07 - Velleius Attacks The Platonist And Aristotelian Views Of Gods 3

      • Cassius
      • June 16, 2024 at 1:40 PM
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      June 16, 2024 at 1:40 PM

    2. Episode 231 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 06 - How would you live if you were certain that there are no supernatural gods and no life after death? 4

      • Cassius
      • June 8, 2024 at 12:02 PM
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    4. Bryan

      June 8, 2024 at 12:02 PM

    2. Episode 230 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 05 - Velleius Attacks Misplaced Ideas of Divinity 18

      • Cassius
      • May 28, 2024 at 6:34 PM
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    4. Bryan

      May 28, 2024 at 6:34 PM

    2. Episode 229 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 04 - Velleius Continues His Attack On Intelligent Design 7

      • Cassius
      • May 22, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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    4. Cassius

      May 22, 2024 at 6:39 PM

    2. Episode 228 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 03 - Velleius Asks "What Woke The Gods To Create The World?" 8

      • Cassius
      • May 30, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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    4. Bryan

      May 30, 2024 at 10:16 PM

    2. Episode 227 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 02 - Velleius Begins His Attack On Traditional Views Of The Gods 75

      • Cassius
      • June 13, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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    4. Eikadistes

      June 13, 2024 at 4:56 PM

    2. Episode 226 - Cicero's On The Nature of The Gods - Epicurean Section 01 - Introduction 16

      • Cassius
      • April 21, 2024 at 11:31 AM
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    2. Episode 224 - Special Reading - The 1429 Letter of Cosma Raimondi 5

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      • April 20, 2024 at 5:09 AM
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      • May 20, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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      May 20, 2024 at 4:18 PM

    2. Episode 225 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 30 - Cicero Argues That Commitment To Virtue Is A Bar To Pleasure 11

      • Cassius
      • April 19, 2024 at 9:21 AM
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      • April 24, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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    4. Cassius

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