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    2. Complete Episode Guide

       • June 29, 2024 at 3:57 PM
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    2. Upcoming Series: The Lucretius Today Podcast Reviews And Responds To Books One And Two of Cicero's On Ends

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       • August 25, 2023 at 8:11 AM
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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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       • December 3, 2019 at 10:27 AM
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    2. Episode 259 - Epicurean Ethics Reexamined (Based on Excerpts From Cicero's "Tusculum Disputations")

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       • November 18, 2024 at 2:09 PM
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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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       • November 18, 2024 at 2:07 PM
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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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       • November 18, 2024 at 2:06 PM
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       • November 18, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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    2. Episode 256 - Did Epicurus Think That His Gods Had Real Physical Existence? (Not Yet Recorded)

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       • November 18, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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       • November 18, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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24. Episode 255 - Cotta Argues That Epicurean Gods Are As Despicable As Are Epicureans Themselves - CIcero's OTNOTG 30 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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    • October 18, 2024 at 3:54 AM
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44. 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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48. Episode 249 - Cicero's OTNOTG 24 - Are The Epicurean Gods Totally Inactive, And Are We To Emulate Them Through Laziness? 28

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    • October 2, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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    • October 19, 2024 at 2:32 PM

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

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    • September 19, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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    • September 29, 2024 at 4:50 PM

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60. 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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64. 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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68. 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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72. Episode 243 Cicero's OTNOTG 18 - From "All Sensations Are True" to Reasoning By Similarity And Analogy 9

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

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

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    • August 17, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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80. Episode 241 - Cicero's OTNOTG 16 - A Common Thread Between The Epicurean View Of "The Gods" and "The Good" 36

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    • August 8, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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84. Episode 240 - Cicero's OTNOTG 15 - The False Allegation That "General Assent" Was The Epicurean Basis For Divinity 7

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    • August 1, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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    • August 6, 2024 at 11:03 PM

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

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

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    • July 19, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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96. Episode 237 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 12 - Isonomia And The Implications of Infinity 34

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    • July 11, 2024 at 7:08 AM
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100. Episode 236 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 11 - Lucretian Support For Velleius' Views of Epicurean Divinity 4

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     • July 2, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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     • July 11, 2024 at 12:41 PM

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

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     • June 25, 2024 at 9:11 AM
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108. Episode 234 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 09 - Dealing With Marcus Aurelius And The Canonical Basis For the Epicurean View Of Divinity 80

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     • July 7, 2024 at 11:30 AM

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

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     • June 14, 2024 at 8:35 PM
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     • June 21, 2024 at 1:49 PM

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116. Episode 232 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 07 - Velleius Attacks The Platonist And Aristotelian Views Of Gods 3

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     • June 8, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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     • June 16, 2024 at 1:40 PM

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120. 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

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     • May 31, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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     • June 8, 2024 at 12:02 PM

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

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

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     • May 13, 2024 at 2:46 PM
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132. Episode 228 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 03 - Velleius Asks "What Woke The Gods To Create The World?" 8

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     • May 10, 2024 at 11:59 AM
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     • May 30, 2024 at 10:16 PM

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

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     • May 2, 2024 at 10:37 AM
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140. Episode 226 - Cicero's On The Nature of The Gods - Epicurean Section 01 - Introduction 16

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

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

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     • April 19, 2024 at 9:21 AM
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152. 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

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

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     • April 3, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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160. Episode 221 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 28 -Cicero Alleges Pleasures Of The Mind Cannot Offset Pain In Epicurean Philosophy 6

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     • March 30, 2024 at 12:19 PM
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164. Episode 220 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 27 -Cicero Attacks Epicurus' End-Of-Life Decisionmaking 6

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     • March 22, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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168. Episode 219 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 26 -Cicero Continues His Attack On Epicurus' Position On Pain 13

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

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176. Episode 217 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 24 - Does Luck Control Whether An Epicurean Is Happy? 11

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180. Episode 216 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 23 - Why Does Epicurus Say Length Of Time Does Not Contribute To Pleasure? 34

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     • February 24, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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184. Episode 215 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 22 - The Epicurean View Of Happiness 9

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188. Episode 214 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 21 - Cicero Argues For An Ideal View of Friendship and Happiness Which Epicureans Reject 8

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     • February 6, 2024 at 5:06 AM
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