The Lucretius Today Podcast

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    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
      • Cassius
      • September 29, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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    4. Cassius

      September 29, 2024 at 4:50 PM

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

      • Cassius
      • September 13, 2024 at 3:11 PM
      • Cassius
      • September 19, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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    4. Cassius

      September 19, 2024 at 10:30 AM

    2. Episode 245 - Cicero's OTNOTG 20 - Right, Wrong, Or Incomplete? 10

      • Cassius
      • September 6, 2024 at 9:50 PM
      • Cassius
      • September 15, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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    4. Cassius

      September 15, 2024 at 3:59 PM

    2. Episode 244 - Cicero's OTNOTG 19 - Zeno's Paradoxes - Profundity Or Gaslighting? 18

      • Cassius
      • August 28, 2024 at 9:36 PM
      • Cassius
      • September 4, 2024 at 7:55 AM
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    4. Cassius

      September 4, 2024 at 7:55 AM

    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
      • Cassius
      • August 28, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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    4. Cassius

      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
      • Cassius
      • 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
      • Cassius
      • 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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    4. Kalosyni

      July 27, 2024 at 4:43 PM

    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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    4. Cassius

      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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    4. Cassius

      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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    4. Kalosyni

      August 10, 2024 at 6:27 PM

    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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    4. Cassius

      June 21, 2024 at 1:49 PM

    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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    4. Remus

      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
      • Cassius
      • June 21, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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    4. Cassius

      June 21, 2024 at 5:40 PM

    2. Episode 224 - Special Reading - The 1429 Letter of Cosma Raimondi 5

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

      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
      • Cassius
      • April 24, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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    4. Cassius

      April 24, 2024 at 4:57 PM

    2. Episode 223 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 29 - Are Epicureans Undertaking The Exertions Of Life For Nothing More Than A Drop Of Honey? 7

      • Cassius
      • April 18, 2024 at 10:23 PM
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    4. Titus

      April 18, 2024 at 10:23 PM

    2. Episode 222 - Revisiting the Relationship Between Happiness and Pleasure 10

      • Cassius
      • April 8, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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    4. Bryan

      April 8, 2024 at 4:48 PM

    2. Episode 221 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 28 -Cicero Alleges Pleasures Of The Mind Cannot Offset Pain In Epicurean Philosophy 6

      • Cassius
      • March 30, 2024 at 12:19 PM
      • Cassius
      • April 7, 2024 at 9:05 AM
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    4. Cassius

      April 7, 2024 at 9:05 AM

    2. Episode 220 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 27 -Cicero Attacks Epicurus' End-Of-Life Decisionmaking 6

      • Cassius
      • March 22, 2024 at 1:31 PM
      • Cassius
      • March 31, 2024 at 8:56 AM
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    4. Cassius

      March 31, 2024 at 8:56 AM

    2. Episode 219 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 26 -Cicero Continues His Attack On Epicurus' Position On Pain 13

      • Cassius
      • March 10, 2024 at 2:30 PM
      • Cassius
      • April 5, 2024 at 3:55 AM
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    4. Titus

      April 5, 2024 at 3:55 AM

    2. Episode 218 Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 25 - Can The Epicurean Not Distinguish Between Greater and Lesser Pleasures and Pains? 7

      • Cassius
      • March 6, 2024 at 12:00 PM
      • Cassius
      • March 16, 2024 at 10:41 AM
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    4. Cassius

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