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    2. “Better to lose the money because of me than to lose me because of the money.” 3

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    2. Cicero’s Stoic Paradoxes - General 3

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    2. Cicero's "Academic Questions"

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    2. Episode 259 - Epicurean Ethics Reexamined (Based on Excerpts From Cicero's "Tusculum Disputations")

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    2. Episode 258 - The Epicurean View of Divination (Based In Part On the Epicurean Section of Cicero's "On Divination")

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    2. Episode 257 - The Epicurean View of Fate (Based In Part on The Epicurean Section of Cicero's "On Fate" 1

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    2. Episode 256 - Did Epicurus Think That His Gods Had Real Physical Existence? (Not Yet Recorded)

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    2. Welcome Viokane!

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    2. November 20, 2024 - Twentieth Gathering Zoom - Agenda

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

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    2. Welcome Frank1939

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    2. New Slideshow: Nothing Comes From Nothing

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

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    2. An Anti-Epicurean Article - "The Meaning of Life Is Not Happiness" (For Future Reference) 12

      • Cassius
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    2. Questions re Pleasure 2

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    2. Aspects of Pleasure - Dopamine, Endorphine, Continuity 7

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    2. Why Do We Consider The Absence of Pain To Be Pleasure? 18

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    2. Ancient Wine 2

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    2. The Rhetoric of Explanation in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura

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    2. De Rerum Natura Early Manuscript - codex oblongus

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    2. Nothing Ain't Worth Nothing.... 16

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    2. Drunken Butterflies and Inebriated Elephants

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    2. Prolepsis / Anticipations As Epicurus' Answer to the MENO Problem 33

      • Cassius
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    2. Acts 17: 16-34 - Who said what? 2

      • Don
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    2. Question on Lucretius 6

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    2. David Hume and his "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion" 1

      • Cassius
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    2. Epicureanism and Scientific Debates Epicurean Tradition and its Ancient Reception - New (2023) Collection of Commentaries 4

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    2. November 4, 2024 - First Monday Epicurean Philosophy Zoom Discussion - Agenda 2

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    2. Earlier Ancient Greek Ideas on Pleasure - Plato/ Aristotle - Pleasure of Reason 2

      • Kalosyni
      • October 28, 2024 at 9:22 AM
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    2. Video: Richard Dawkins v. Jordan Peterson (Mainly on Memes / Archetypes) 7

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      • October 29, 2024 at 12:16 AM
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    2. Episode 253 - How The "Riddle Of Epicurus" FIts Into the Epicurean View of The Gods - Cicero's OTNOTG 28 14

      • Cassius
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    2. Notes on Epicurean Salvation; Recursion and Restructuring 1

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    2. An Example of Stoic Logical Reasoning - On Divination

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    2. Dating the Works of Epicurus 6

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

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    2. Was De Rerum Natura intended as satire? A lecture by THM Gellar-Goad. 14

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    2. Epicurean Philosophy And Boomer Word Associations ("Feeling No Pain") 3

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    2. Evidence of Survivors of Pompeii and Herculaneum 1

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    2. “Better to lose the money because of me than to lose me because of the money.” 3

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    2. An Anti-Epicurean Article - "The Meaning of Life Is Not Happiness" (For Future Reference) 12

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    2. Was De Rerum Natura intended as satire? A lecture by THM Gellar-Goad. 14

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    2. New Slideshow: Nothing Comes From Nothing

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