Episode 022 - 06/12/20 - Lucretius - Book Two Book Two - Epicurean Philosophy As The Only Way To Defeat Fear of Death And Other Errors As To The Goal of Life
Episode 023 - 06/24/20 - The Motion Of The Atoms Continues Without Resting Place, and At Great Speed
Episode 024 - 06/27/20 - The Swerve Part One: As A Producing Force of Nature
Episode 025 - 07/03/20 - The Swerve Part Two: As The Basis of Human Agency
Episode 026 - 07/11/20 - The Atoms Are Not Uniform In Shape
Episode 027 - 07/17/20 - There is A Limit To the Size of Atoms
Episode 028 - 07/20/20 - The Number of Shapes of Atoms Is Not Infinite, But Innumerable
Episode 029 - 08/02/20 - The Earth As Allegorical Mother of All
Episode 030 - 08/07/20 - Only A Limited Number of Combinations Of Atoms Is Possible
Episode 031 - 08/10/20 - Continuation of Episode 30 And Discussion of the Polyaenus Example
Episode 032 - 08/22/20 - The Atoms Are Colorless, But The Implications of That Are Not
Episode 033 - 08/26/20 - More On the Implications of The Colorless Atoms
Episode 034 - 08/31/20 - The Atoms Do Not Possess A Faculty of Sensation
Episode 035 - 09/13/20 - More Reasons Why Atoms Cannot Possess The Faculty of Sense
Episode 036 - 09/19/20 - No Single Thing of A Kind: Earth Not The Only Home of Life
Episode 037 - 09/27/20 - End of Book 2 - The Earth Too Was Born, and It Will One Day Die
Episode 223 - 04/16/24 - Cicero’s On Ends - Book Two - Part 29 - Are Epicureans Undergoing The Exertions Of Life For Nothing More Than A Drop Of Honey?
28. Special Reading - The Letter of Cosma Raimondi
Episode 226 - 04/30/24 - Cicero’s On The Nature of The Gods - Part 01 - Introduction
Episode 227 - 05/10/24 - Cicero’s On The Nature of The Gods - Part 02 - Velleius Begins His Attack On Traditional Views Of The Gods
Episode 228 - 05/13/24 - Cicero’s On The Nature of The Gods - Part 03 - Velleius Asks “What Woke The Gods To Create The World?”
Episode 229 - 05/22/24 - Cicero’s On The Nature of The Gods - Part 04 - Velleius Continues His Assault On Intelligent Design
Episode 230 - 05/27/24 - Cicero’s On The Nature of The Gods - Part 05 - Velleius Attacks Misplaced Ideas of Divinity
Episode 231 - 06/07/24 - Cicero’s On The Nature of The Gods - Part 06 - How would you live if you were certain that there are no supernatural gods and no life after death?
Episode 232 - 06/15/24 - Cicero’s On The Nature of The Gods - Part 07 - Velleius Attacks The Platonist And Aristotelian Views Of Gods
Episode 233 - 06/18/24 - Cicero’s On The Nature of The Gods - Part 08 - An Epicurean Attack On The False God Of Stoicism
Episode 234 - 06/24/24 - Cicero’s On The Nature of The Gods - Part 09 - Dealing With Marcus Aurelius And The Epicurean Canonical Basis for Divinity
Episode 235 - 07/02/24 - Cicero’s On The Nature of The Gods - Part 10 - Velleius Explains the Epicurean Proleptic View of Divinity
Episode 236 - 07/11/24 - Cicero’s On The Nature of The Gods - Part 11 - Lucretian Support For Velleius’ Views of Epicurean Divinity
Episode 237 - 07/17/24 - Cicero’s On The Nature of The Gods - Part 12 - Isonomia And The Implications Of Infinity
Episode 238 - 07/24/24 - Cicero’s On The Nature of The Gods - Part 13 - Velleius Erupts Against Stoic Fate and Supernatural God-Making
Episode 239 - 07/29/24 - Cicero’s On The Nature of The Gods - Part 14 - The Dishonesty of Academic Skepticism vs. Epicurus’ Commitment To Truth Transcript
Episode 240 - 08/06/24 - Cicero’s On The Nature of The Gods - Part 15 - The False Allegation That “General Assent” Was The Epicurean Basis For Divinity Transcript
Episode 241 - 08/08/24 - Cicero’s On The Nature of The Gods - Part 16 - A Common Thread Between The Epicurean View of “The Gods” and “The Good” Transcript
Episode 242 - 08/17/24 - Cicero’s On The Nature of The Gods - Part 17 - Is Truth A Matter Of Logic? Transcript
Episode 243 - 08/23/24 - Cicero’s On The Nature of The Gods - Part 18 - From “All Sensations Are True” to Reasoning By Similarity And Analogy Transcript
Episode 244 - 08/28/24 - Cicero’s On The Nature of The Gods - Part 19 - Zeno’s Paradoxes - Profundity Or Gaslighting? Transcript
Episode 245 - 09/06/24 - Cicero’s On The Nature Of The Gods - Part 20 - Right, Wrong, Or Incomplete? Transcript
Episode 246 - 09/17/24 - Cicero’s On The Nature Of The Gods - Part 21 - Examining Epicurean Evidence-Based Reasoning? Transcript
Episode 247 - 09/19/24 - Cicero’s OTNOTG 22 – Cotta Continues To Attack The Epicurean View That Gods Are Natural Living Beings
Episode 248 - 09/28/24 - Cicero’s OTNOTG 23 – Cotta Pushes The “Argument By Design” Against The Epicurean View That All Is Natural
Episode 249 - 10/02/24 - Cicero’s OTNOTG 24 – Are The Epicurean Gods Totally Inactive, And Are We To Emulate Them Through Laziness?
Episode 250 - 10/12/24 - Cicero’s OTNOTG 25 – The Relationship Of “Images” To All Human Thought – Not Just To “The Gods”
Episode 251 - 10/18/24 - Cicero’s OTNOTG 26 – How Niagara Falls Helps Us Understand The Flux, The Heap, And The Epicurean Gods
Episode 252 - 10/26/24 - Why Reverence The Epicurean Gods?
Episode 253 - 10/27/24 - Cicero’s OTNOTG 28 – How The “Riddle Of Epicurus” Fits Into The Epicurean View Of The Gods
Episode 254 - 11/09/24 - The Skeptic Asks: Does Not Epicurus Undermine Religion As Much As Any Outright Atheist?
Episode 255 - 11/13/24 - Cicero’s OTNOTG 30 – Cotta Argues That Epicurean Gods Are As Despicable As Epicureans Themselves
Episode 273 - 03/18/25 - TD03 – Is The Soul Immortal And Death Actually A Good?
Episode 274 - 03/30/25 - TD04 – Is The Soul Held Down By The Body, And Does Death Allow The Soul To Ascend?
Episode 275 - 04/04/25 - TD05 – Does Motion Provide Evidence For The Existence Of God And Divinity Of The Soul?
Episode 276 - 04/11/25 - TD06 – Is Memory Evidence For The Divinity Of The Soul?
Episode 277 - 04/15/25 - TD07 – Platonism Says This World Is Darkness But The Next World Is Light – Epicurus Disagrees
Episode 278 - 04/24/25 - TD08 – Two Opposite Views On When We Might Be Better Off Dead
Episode 279 - 05/01/25 - TD10 – On “Dying Before One’s Time”
Episode 280 - 05/08/25 - TD11 – On Death And Daring To Live
Episode 281 - 05/15/25 - TD12 – Is Pain The Greatest Evil – Or Even An Evil At All?
Episode 282 - 05/22/25 - TD13 – Is A Trifling Pain A Greater Evil Than The Worst Infamy?
Episode 283 - 05/31/25 - Philosophy For The Millions
Episode 284 - 05/31/25 - TD14 – In Dealing With Pain, Does Practice Make Perfect Or Make For A Happy Life?
Episode 285 - 06/07/25 - TD15 – The Significance Of The Limits Of Pain
Episode 286 - 06/13/25 - TD16 – Confronting Pain With Reason Rather Than With “Virtue”
Episode 287 - 06/21/25 - TD17 – The Fear Of Pain Is Overrated, But Cicero And Epicurus Disagree As To Why
Episode 288 - 06/25/25 - TD18 – Tusculan Disputations Part 3 – Will The Wise Man Feel Grief Or Other Strong Emotions?
Episode 289 - 07/04/25 - TD19 – “Epicureans Are Not Spocks!”
Episode 290 - 07/11/25 - TD20 – Tiptoeing Around All Disturbance Is Not Living
Episode 291 - 07/16/25 - TD21 – Epicurus Pushes Back Against “Expect The Worst And You’ll Never Be Disappointed”
Episode 292 - 07/26/25 - TD22 – Is Virtue Or Pleasure The Key To Overcoming Grief?
Episode 293 - 07/30/25 - TD23 – Cicero Accuses Epicurus Of Evasion In Calling “Absence Of Pain” A “Pleasure”
Episode 294 - 08/07/25 - TD24 – Distinguishing Dogs From Wolves And Pleasure From Absence Of Pain
Episode 295 - 08/14/25 - Plutarch’s Absurd Interpretation Of Epicurean Absence Of Pain
Episode 296 - 08/22/25 - Ancient Criticisms Of Epicurean “Absence Of Pain” Echo In The Modern World
Episode 297 - 08/30/25 - TD25 – Is Philosophy At War With Perfume?
Episode 298 - 09/05/25 - TD26 – Facts And Feelings In Epicurean Philosophy – Part 1
Episode 299 - 09/13/25 - TD27 – Was Epicurus Right That There Are Only Two Feelings – Pleasure And Pain? [[Episode 299 - 09-13-25 - Was Epicurus Right That There Are Only Two Feelings Pleasure And Pain|Show Notes]]
Episode 300 - 09/18/25 - TD28 – An Epicurean Twist On The Legend Of King Canute - [[Episode 300 - 09-18-25 - An Epicurean Twist On The Legend Of King Canute |Show Notes]]
Episode 301 - 09/27/25 - TD29 – Epicurus And The Question Of Ends Justifying Means [[Episode 301 - 09-27-25 - Epicurus And The Question Of Ends Justifying Means|Show Notes]]
Episode 302 - 10/04/25 - TD30 – Epicurus And Roads Paved With Good Intentions [[Episode 301 - 09-27-25 - Epicurus And The Question Of Ends Justifying Means|Show Notes]]
Episode 303 - 10/09/25 - TD31 – Is It Truly Impossible To Advocate For Epicurus In The Public Sphere?
Episode 304 - 10/17/25 - TD32 – Epicurus vs. The Stoics On Strong Emotions
Episode 305 - 10/25/25 - TD33 – Shall We Stoically Be A Spectator To Life And Content Ourselves With “Virtue?” [[Episode 305 - 10-25-25 - Shall We Stoically Be A Spectator To Life And Content Ourselves With Virtue|Show Notes]]
