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Episode 328 - Sensation - While Neither Right Or Wrong - As The Touchstone Of Reality
Episode 327 - Intelligent Design vs Emergence
Episode 326 - Who Cares About Infinite Divisibility? And Why?
Episode 325 - The False Platonic Division of The Universe Into A Force Which Causes And That Which The Force Acts Upon
Episode 324 - Is Pleasure The Good Or The Enemy Of the Good?
Episode 323 - The Pre-Epicurean View: Three Divisions of Philosophy And Three Divisions of Goods
Episode 322 - Epicurean Moral Outrage Against Socrates
Episode 321 - The Epicurean Criticism of Socrates For Denouncing Natural Science
Episode 320 - Are The Good of A Sheep And A Man The Same?
Episode 319 - Is the Key To Happiness Found In Supernatural Causes and Geometry?
Episode 318 - In The End It Is Pleasure - Not Virtue - That Gives Meaning To The Happy Life
Episode 317 - The Epicurean System of Counterbalancing In the Pursuit Of Pleasure
Episode 316 - Happiness Is The Goal Of Life - A Life of Happiness Is A Life Of Pleasure
Episode 315 - Preventing Pain From Destroying Happiness
Episode 314 - Can Pleasures Really Overcome Pains?
Episode 313 - TD40 - Diagnosing When Words Are Empty Of Meaning
Episode 312 - Word Games Are No Substitute For Reality
Episode 311 - Is Pain The Only Reason We Should Be Concerned About Any Aspect Of Death And Dying?
Episode 310 - TD38 - Neither Happiness Nor Virtue Are Binary States
Episode 309 - TD37 - The Error of Basing Happiness On The Alleged Divinity Of The Human Mind
Episode 308 - TD36 - Tracing Epicurus' Key Ideas From the Principal Doctrines To The Tetrapharmakon To Cicero's Epicurean Speakers
Episode 307 - TD35 - How The Wise Epicurean Is Always Happy
Episode 306 - TD34 - Is A Life That Is 99 Percent Happy Really Happy?
Episode 305 - TD33 - Shall We Stoically Be A Spectator To Life And Content Ourselves With \"Virtue?\
Episode 304 - TD32 - Epicurus vs. The Stoics On Strong Emotions
Episode 303 - TD31 - Is It Truly Impossible To Advocate For Epicurus In The Public Sphere?
Episode 302 - TD30 - Epicurus and Roads Paved With Good Intentions
Episode 301 - TD29 - Epicurus And The Question Of Ends Justifying Means
Episode 300 - TD28 - An Epicurean Twist On The Legend of King Canute
Episode 299 - TD27 - Was Epicurus Right That There Are Only Two Feelings - Pleasure And Pain?
Episode 298 - TD26 - Facts And Feelings In Epicurean Philosophy - Part 1
Episode 297 - TD25 - Is Philosophy At War With Perfume?
Episode 296 - Ancient Criticisms Of Epicurean \"Absence of Pain\" Echo In The Modern World
Episode 295 - Plutarch's Absurd Interpretation of Epicurean Absence of Pain
Episode 294 - TD24 - Distinguishing Dogs From Wolves And Pleasure From Absence of Pain
Episode 293 - TD23 - Cicero Accuses Epicurus Of Evasion In Calling \"Absence of Pain\" A \"Pleasure\
Episode 292 - TD22 - Is Virtue Or Pleasure The Key To Overcoming Grief?
Episode 291 - TD21 - Epicurus Pushes Back Against \"Expect The Worst And You'll Never Be Disappointed\
Episode 290 - TD20 - TipToeing Around All Disturbance Is Not Living
Episode 289 - TD19 - \"Epicureans Are Not Spocks!\
Episode 288 - TD18 - Tusculan Disputations Part 3 - \"Will The Wise Man Feel Grief Or Other Strong Emotions?\
Episode 287 - TD17 - The Fear of Pain Is Overrated, But Cicero and Epicurus Disagree As To Why.
Episode 286 - TD16 - Confronting Pain With Reason Rather Than With \"Virtue\
Episode 285 - TD15 - The Significance Of The Limits Of Pain
Episode 284 - TD14 - In Dealing With Pain, Does Practice Make Perfect? Or Does Practice Make For A Happy Life?
Episode 283 - Philosophy For The Millions
Episode 282 - TD13 - Is A Trifling Pain A Greater Evil Than The Worst Infamy?
Episode 281 - TD12 - Is Pain The Greatest Evil - Or Even An Evil At All?
Episode 280 - TD11 - On Death And Daring To Live
Episode 279 - TD10 - On \"Dying Before One's Time\
Episode 278 - TD08 - Two Opposite Views On When We Might Be Better Off Dead
Episode 277 - TD07 - Platonism Says This World Is Darkness But The Next World Is Light - Epicurus Disagrees!
Episode 276 - TD06 - Is Memory Evidence For The Divinity Of The Soul?
Episode 275 - TD05 - Does Motion Provide Evidence For The Existence of God And Divinity Of The Soul?
Episode 274 - TD04 - Is The Soul Held Down By The Body, And Does Death Allow The Soul To Ascend To A Better Place?
Episode 273 - TD03 - Is The Soul Immortal And Death Actually A Good?
Episode 272 - TD02 - Is Death An Evil?
Episode 271 - TD01 - Understanding Epicurus Through Tusculan Disputations
Episode 270 - Life Is Desirable, But Unlimited Time Contains No Greater Pleasure Than Limited Time
Episode 269 - By Pleasure We Mean The Absence of Pain (All Experience That Is Not Painful)
Episode 268 - Pleasure Is The Guide Of Life (The Role of Pleasure In Life)
Episode 267 - Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End In Itself - All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation.
Episode 266 - The Epicurean Paradigm Shift
Episode 265 - The Deep-Set Boundary Stone - Epicurus and The Perils of Applying the Principles of Geometry to Ethical Philosophy
Episode 264 - \"Bread and Water!!?? Debunking The Myth of Epicurean Asceticism\
Episode 263 - \"All Sensations Are True\
Episode 262 - He Who Says \"Nothing Can Be Known\" Knows Nothing
Episode 261 - Death Is Nothing To Us
Episode 260 - The Universe Is Infinite And Eternal And Has No Gods Over It
Episode 259 - Nothing Comes From Nothing
Episode 258 - There Is No Necessity To Live Under the Control of Necessity - Part 2 (Conclusion)
Episode 257 - There Is No Necessity To Live Under Necessity - Part 1
Episode 256 - Epicurean Gods: Real, Or Ideal Thought Constructs?
Episode 255 - Episode 255 \u2013 Cicero's OTNOTG 30 \u2013 Cotta Argues That Epicurean Gods\
Episode 254 - The Skeptic Asks: Does Not Epicurus Undermine Religion?
Episode 253 - The Skeptic Asks: Was Epicurus A Materialist?
Episode 252 - Cicero's On The Nature Of The Gods - Part 27 - Where Do We Go From Here?
Episode 251 - Cicero's On The Nature Of The Gods - Part 26 - How Niagara Falls Helps Us Understand The Flux, The Heap, and The Epicurean Gods.
Episode 250 - Cicero's On The Nature Of The Gods - Part 25 - The Relationship Of \"Images\" To All Human Thought - Not Just To The Gods.
Episode 249 - Cicero's On The Nature Of The Gods - Part 24 - Are the Epicurean Gods Totally Inactive, And Are We To Emulate Them Through Laziness?
Episode 248 - Cicero's On The Nature Of The Gods - Part 23 - Cotta Pushes The \"Argument By Design\" Against The Epicurean View That All - Including Gods - Is Natural.
Episode 247 - Cicero's On The Nature Of The Gods - Part 22 - Cotta Continues To Attack The Epicurean View That Gods Are Natural Living Beings.
Episode 246 - Examining Epicurean Evidence-Based Reasoning
Episode 245 - Right, Wrong, Or Incomplete?
Episode 244 - Zeno's Paradoxes - Profundity Or Gaslighting?
Episode 243 - From All Sensations Are True to Reasoning By Similarity And Analogy
Episode 242 - Is Truth A Matter Of Logic?
Episode 241 - A Common Thread Between The Epicurean View Of The Gods and The Good
Episode 240 - Cicero's On The Nature of The Gods - Part 15 - The False Allegation That General Assent Was The Epicurean Basis For Divinity
Episode 239 - Cicero's On The Nature of The Gods - Part 14 - The Dishonesty of Academic Skepticism vs. Epicurus' Commitment To Truth
Episode 238 - Cicero's On The Nature of The Gods - Part 13 - Velleius Erupts Against Stoic Fate and Supernatural God-Making
Episode 237 - Cicero's On The Nature of The Gods - Part 12 - Isonomia And The Implications Of Infinity
Episode 236 - Cicero's On The Nature of The Gods - Part 11 - Lucretian Support For Velleius' Views of Epicurean Divinity
Episode 235 - Cicero's On The Nature of The Gods - Part 10 - Velleius Explains the Epicurean Proleptic View of Divinity
Episode 234 - Cicero's On The Nature of The Gods - Part 09 - Dealing With Marcus Aurelius And The Epicurean Canonical Basis for Divinity
Episode 233 - Cicero's On The Nature of The Gods - Part 08 - An Epicurean Attack On The False God Of Stoicism
Episode 232 - Cicero's On The Nature of The Gods - Part 07 - Velleius Attacks The Platonist And Aristotelian Views Of Gods
Episode 231 - 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 230 - Cicero's On The Nature of The Gods - Part 05 - Velleius Attacks Misplaced Ideas of Divinity
Episode 229 - Cicero's On The Nature of The Gods - Part 04 - Velleius Continues His Assault On Intelligent Design
Episode 228 - Cicero's On The Nature of The Gods - Part 03 - Velleius Asks \"What Woke The Gods To Create The World?\
Episode 227 - Cicero's On The Nature of The Gods - Part 02 - Velleius Begins His Attack On Traditional Views Of The Gods
Episode 226 - Cicero's On The Nature of The Gods - Part 01 - Introduction
Episode 225 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 30 - Cicero Argues That Commitment To Virtue Is A Bar To Pleasure
Episode 224 - The 1429 Letter of Cosma Raimondi - In Defense of Epicurus
Episode 223 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 29 - Are Epicureans Undergoing The Exertions Of Life For Nothing More Than A Drop Of Honey?
Episode 222 - Revisiting the Relationship Between Happiness and Pleasure
Episode 221 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 28 - Cicero Alleges Pleasures Of The Mind Cannot Offset Pain In Epicurean Philosophy
Episode 220 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 27 - Cicero Attacks Epicurus' End-Of-Life Decisionmaking
Episode 219 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 26 - Cicero Continues His Attack On Epicurus' Position On Pain
Episode 218 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 25 - Can The Epicurean Not Distinguish Between Greater and Lesser Pleasures and Pains?
Episode 217 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 24 - Does Luck Control Whether An Epicurean Is Happy?
Episode 216 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 23 - Why Does Epicurus Say Length Of Time Does Not Contribute To Pleasure?
Episode 215 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 22 - The Epicurean View Of Happiness
Episode 214 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 21 - Cicero Argues For Idealized Friendship and Happiness Which Epicurus Rejects
Episode 213 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 20 - Only Epicureans Define Pleasure As You Do! Why Do You Lie?
Episode 212 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 19 - Can \"Pleasure\" Be Defended In The Public Square?
Episode 211 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 18 - Battle Of The Images
Episode 210 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 17 - Self-Approval As Pleasure
Episode 209 - Foundations of Epicurean Philosophy
Episode 208 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 16 - Epicurus Stands For The Truth Rather Than Make-Believe
Episode 207 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 15 - Does Epicurean Philosophy Lead to Injustice?
Episode 206 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 14 - More On The Nature of Morality
Episode 205 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 13 - The Nature of Morality
Episode 204 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 12 - More On The \"Jurisdiction\" Question
Episode 203 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 11 - Do The Senses Have Jurisdiction To Judge The Supreme Good?
Episode 202 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 10 - The Animality Argument
Episode 201 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 09
Episode 200 - Lucretius Today 200th Episode: Retrospective, Recap, and Looking To The Future
Episode 199 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 08
Episode 198 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 07
Episode 197 - Interview With Dr Marcelo Boeri
Episode 196 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 06
Episode 195 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 05
Episode 194 - Cicero's On Ends - Book One - Part 04
Episode 193 - Cicero's On Ends - Book One - Part 03
Episode 192 - Chapter 16 of A Few Days In Athens
Episode 191 - Cicero's On Ends - Book One - Part 02
Episode 190 - Cicero's On Ends - Book One - Part 01
Episode 189 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 41 - Chapter 15 - Extension, Submergence, Revival - 04
Episode 188 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 40 - Chapter 15 - Extension, Submergence, Revival - 03
Episode 187 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 39 - Chapter 15 - Extension, Submergence, Revival - 02
Episode 186 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 38 - Chapter 15 - Extension, Submergence, Revival - 01
Episode 185 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 37 - Chapter 14 - The New Virtues 08
Episode 184 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 36 - Chapter 14 - The New Virtues 07
Episode 183 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 35 - Chapter 14 - The New Virtues 06 - Honesty
Episode 182 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 34 - Chapter 14 - The New Virtues 05
Episode 181 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 33 - Chapter 14 - The New Virtues 04
Episode 180 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 32 - Chapter 13 - The True Piety 03
Episode 179 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 31 - Chapter 13 - The True Piety 02
Episode 178 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 30 - Chapter 13 - The True Piety 01
Episode 177 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 29 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 06
Episode 176 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 29 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 05
Episode 175 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 28 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 04
Episode 174 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 27 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 03
Episode 173 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 26 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 02
Episode 172 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 25 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 01
Episode 171 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 24 - Chapter 11 - Soul, Sensation, and Mind 01
Episode 170 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 23 - Chapter 10 - The New Freedom 03
Episode 169 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 22 - Chapter 10 - The New Freedom 02
Episode 168 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 21 - Chapter 10 - The New Freedom 01
Episode 167 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 20 - Chapter 9 - The New Physics 02
Episode 166 - Lucretius Today Interviews Dr. David Glidden on \"Epicurean Prolepsis\
Episode 165 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 19 - Chapter 9 - The New Physics 01
Episode 164 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 18 - Chapter 8 - Sensations, Anticipations, and Feelings 05
Episode 163 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 17 - Chapter 8 - Sensations, Anticipations, and Feelings 04
Episode 162 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 16 - Chapter 8 - Sensations, Anticipations, and Feelings 03
Episode 161 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 15 - Chapter 8 - Sensations, Anticipations, and Feelings 02
Episode 160 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 14 - Chapter 8 - Sensations, Anticipations, and Feelings 01
Episode 159 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 13 - Chapter 7 - The Canon Reason and Nature 04
Episode 158 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 12 - Chapter 7 - The Canon Reason and Nature 03
Episode 157 - Lucretius Today Interviews Dr. Emily Austin - Part Two
Episode 156 - Lucretius Today Interviews Dr. Emily Austin - Part One
Episode 155 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 11 - Chapter 7 - The Canon Reason and Nature 02
Episode 154 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 10 - Chapter 7 - The Canon Reason and Nature 01
Episode 153 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 09 - The New Education 02
Episode 152 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 08 - The New Education 01
Episode 151 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 07 - The New School In Athens
Episode 150 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 06 - Development of the School in Mytilene and Lampsacus
Episode 149 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 05 - The Early Years of Epicurus
Episode 148 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 04 - True Opinions And False Opinions About Epicurus
Episode 147 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 03 - True Opinions And False Opinions About Epicurus
Episode 146 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 02 - The Three Divisions of Epicurean Philosophy
Episode 145 - \"Epicurus And His Philosophy\" Part 01 - Chapter 1 - Introduction
Episode 144 - Diogenes of Oinoanda (Part 4) Virtue Not The Highest Good
Episode 143 - Diogenes of Oinoanda (Part 3) The Superiority of The Epicurean Viewpoint on \"Gods\
Episode 142 - Diogenes of Oinoanda (Part 2) \"Reality\
Episode 141 - Diogenes of Oinoanda (Part 1) The Inscription
Episode 140 - Letter to Menoeceus 07 - Completion of the Letter
Episode 139 - Letter to Menoeceus 06 - On Pleasure (Part Two)
Episode 138 - Letter to Menoeceus 05 - On Pleasure (Part One)
Episode 137 - Letter to Menoeceus 04 - On Death (Part Two)
Episode 136 - Letter to Menoeceus 03 - On Death (Part One)
Episode 135 - Letter to Menoeceus 02 - On The Nature of The Gods
Episode 134 - Letter to Menoeceus 01 - Context and Opening of the Letter
Episode 133 - Letter to Pythocles 07 - Conclusion Of The Letter
Episode 132 - Letter to Pythocles 06 - More on The Weather
Episode 131 - Letter to Pythocles 05 - Weather Phenomena
Episode 130 - Letter to Pythocles 04 - More on the Sun and Moon
Episode 129 - Letter to Pythocles 03 - The Implications Of the Epicurean Position On The Size of the Sun
Episode 128 - Short Review of the Twelve Fundamentals of Nature
Episode 127 - Letter to Pythocles 02 - The Formation of \"Worlds\
Episode 126 - Letter to Pythocles 01 - Introduction On The Basic Approach of Epicurean Philosophy
Episode 125 - Letter to Herodotus 14 - Purpose and Method of Studying Nature - Conclusion
Episode 124 - Letter to Herodotus 13 - Life On Other Worlds, Development of Language, And the Regular Motion of the Stars
Episode 123 - Letter to Herodotus 12 - Events and Time (More on Properties and Qualities)
Episode 122 - Letter to Herodotus 11 - What it Means to \"Exist\" - Properties and Qualities
Episode 121 - Letter to Herodotus 10 - Atoms and The Soul
Episode 120 - Letter to Herodotus 9 - Epicurus' Rejection of Infinite Divisibility
Episode 119 - Letter to Herodotus 8 - More On Perception Through The Atoms
Episode 118 - Letter to Herodotus 7 - Images - There's More To Them Than Meets the Eye
Episode 117 - Letter to Herodotus 6 - The Doctrine of Infinity of Worlds And Its Implications
Episode 116 - Letter to Herodotus 5 - More Fundamentals of Physics
Episode 115 - Letter to Herodotus 4 - Atoms, Void, and Basic Epistemology Issues
Episode 114 - Letter to Herodotus 3 - First Principles of Physics
Episode 113 - Letter to Herodotus 2 - Principles of Thinking
Episode 112 - Epicurus' Letter to Herodotus - Introduction and Outlining
Episode 111 - Torquatus Summarizes The Significance of the Epicurus
Episode 110 - The Epicurean View of Friendship (Part Two)
Episode 109 - The Epicurean View of Friendship
Episode 108 - The Benefits of A Proper Understanding of the Senses and of Natural Science
Episode 107 - The Epicurean Emphasis on Natural Science
Episode 106 - The Epicurean Attitude Toward Fate / Fortune and the Role of Reason
Episode 105 - More From Torquatus On The Key Doctrines of Epicurus
Episode 104 - More Torquatus and a Question: Was The Ancient Epicurean Movement A Cult?
Episode 103 - Corollaries to the Doctrines of Epicurus - Part Three
Episode 102 - Corollaries to the Doctrines of Epicurus - Part Two
Episode 101 - Corollaries to the Doctrines of Epicurus - Part One
Episode 100 - Concluding On Justice With A Shout To Keep The Virtues In Their Proper Place
Episode 099 - The Epicurean View of Justice (Part Two)
Episode 098 - The Epicurean View of Justice (Part One)
Episode 097 - The Virtues As Instrumental For Pleasure: Temperance and Courage
Episode 096 - The Proof That Pleasure (And Not Virtue) Is the Supreme Good
Episode 095 - Understanding The Paradoxical \"Absence of Pain\
Episode 094 - Torquatus Explains Pleasure As The Goal Of Life
Episode 093 - Torquatus on Ethics Torquatus Leads Us Forward Into Conflict Over Epicurean Ethics
Episode 092 - The Plague of Athens, And The End of the Poem
Episode 091 - More on Magnetism, and Introduction To Disease And Plagues
Episode 090 - Special Guest Panelist - Preparation for Discussion of Magnetism
Episode 089 - Unusual Geological Phenomena - Springs That Change From Hot to Cold And Back Again
Episode 088 - The Waters of the Nile And The Sulfur Pits That Are Fatal To Birds
Episode 087 - Earthquakes and The Water Cycle
Episode 086 - Typhoons and Whirlwinds
Episode 085 - Thunder and Lightning Part 3 - Why Do The Gods Send Thunderbolts Onto Their Own Temples?
Episode 084 - Thunder and Lightning Part Two - Very Very Frightening
Episode 083 - Meteorology: Thunder and Lightning Part One
Episode 082 - Lucretius - Book Six Opening of Book Six - Restatement of Goal of Poem
Episode 081 - Development of the Arts And The End of Book Five
Episode 080 - The Development of Metallurgy And The Art of War
Episode 079 - The Cause Of The Arising of Belief In Gods
Episode 078 - Ethical Issues Arising In the Formation Of Societies
Episode 077 - The Formation of Language and Early Societies
Episode 076 - Early Humans and Their Society
Episode 075 - The Rise of Life On Earth, And Which Forms Were Possible And Impossible
Episode 074 - Eclipses, And The Beginnings of Life on Earth
Episode 073 - More on the Sun and Moon And Similar Astronomical Issues
Episode 072 - Alternative Explanations in Science, and The Size of The Sun
Episode 071 - Back To The Beginning - The Beginning of Our Corner of the Universe
Episode 070 - More On The End Of The World
Episode 069 - The Eventual End of Our World
Episode 068 - This World Was Not Made By The Gods For Humanity
Episode 067 - Did The Gods Wake Up One Day To Create The Universe?
Episode 066 - The End of All Things (But Not Of The Universe Itself!)
Episode 065 - Introducing a New Panelist (Don) and A Recap of the Opening of Book Five
Episode 064 - Lucretius - Book Five Due To His Accomplishments, Epicurus Should Be Thought Of As Godlike
Episode 063 - The Perils of Romantic Love (Part 3 - End of Book 4)
Episode 062 - The Perils of Romantic Love (Part 2)
Episode 061 - The Perils of Romantic Love (Part 1)
Episode 060 - Dreams, And The Mind's Use of Images
Episode 059 - The Uses Of The Body Were Not Designed Before They Arose
Episode 058 - The Mind's Direct Receipt of Images
Episode 057 - Taste, Smell, and the Subjectivity of the Senses
Episode 056 - More On The Operation Of The Senses
Episode 055 - Reason Is Dependent on The Senses (Part 2)
Episode 054 - Reason Is Dependent on the Senses
Episode 053 - The Senses Are Never Deceived, Even By Illusions
Episode 052 - More on Light, Vision, and Reflections
Episode 051 - More On The Working of \"Images\
Episode 050 - Lucretius - Book Four The Opening of Book Four - Images
Episode 049 - Conclusions On Death And The End of Book Three
Episode 048 - Nature Speaks To Us About Death
Episode 047 - Death Is Nothing To Us
Episode 046 - Conclusion of the Presentation that the Mind and Soul Cannot Survive Death
Episode 045 - More on The Mortality of the Mind and Soul
Episode 044 - Additional Evidence By Which We Conclude The Mind Cannot Survive Apart from the Body
Episode 043 - The Mind is Born, Grows Old, and Dies With the Body
Episode 042 - The Mind Works Through the Senses; Both Mind and Spirit Are Mortal
Episode 041 - The Nature of the Mind and Spirit Is Complex; Sense is Not a Property of The Elements That Make Them, But An Event
Episode 040 - Argument That The Mind and Spirit Are Corporeal
Episode 039 - The Mind And Spirit Are Not Supernatural But Parts of A Man Just Like The Head and Foot
Episode 038 - Lucretius - Book Three Book Three - Epicurus Our Guide Who Dispels The Darkness of Error and Fear of Hell
Episode 037 - End of Book 2 - The Earth Too Was Born, and It Will One Day Die
Episode 036 - No Single Thing of A Kind: Earth Not The Only Home of Life
Episode 035 - More Reasons Why Atoms Cannot Possess The Faculty of Sense
Episode 034 - The Atoms Do Not Possess A Faculty of Sensation
Episode 033 - More On the Implications of The Colorless Atoms
Episode 032 - The Atoms Are Colorless, But The Implications of That Are Not
Episode 031 - Continuation of Episode 30 And Discussion of the Polyaenus Example
Episode 030 - Only A Limited Number of Combinations Of Atoms Is Possible
Episode 029 - The Earth As Allegorical Mother of All
Episode 028 - The Number of Shapes of Atoms Is Not Infinite, But Innumerable
Episode 027 - There is A Limit To the Size of Atoms
Episode 026 - The Atoms Are Not Uniform In Shape
Episode 025 - The Swerve Part Two: As The Basis of Human Agency
Episode 024 - The Swerve Part One: As A Producing Force of Nature
Episode 023 - The Motion Of The Atoms Continues Without Resting Place, and At Great Speed
Episode 022 - 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 021 - The Universe Has No Center
Episode 020 - The Universe Is Infinite In Size
Episode 019 - All Things Are Not Made of Pieces of the Same Thing, Or Pieces of All Things
Episode 018 - All Things Are Not Made of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water
Episode 017 - All Things Are Not Made Of A Single Element, Such as Fire
Episode 016 - The Atoms Are Imperishable And Provide Continuity To All Nature
Episode 015 - Recap Two - Reflections On Book One So Far
Episode 014 - Atoms Are Solid and Indestructible And Constitute the Seeds Of All Things
Episode 013 - Properties, Qualities, and the Trojan War
Episode 012 - Nothing But Combinations Of Matter And Void
Episode 011 - More On The Void and Its Implications
Episode 010 - The Void And Its Nature
Episode 009 - The Evidence That Atoms Exist, Even Though They Are Unseen
Episode 008 - Step Two - Nothing Goes to Nothing!
Episode 007 - The Evidence That Nothing Comes From Nothing
Episode 006 - Step One - Nothing Comes From Nothing!
Episode 005 - On Resisting The Threats of Priests and Poets
Episode 004 - Recap of Opening Sections Of Book One
Episode 003 - So Great Is The Power of Religion To Inspire Evil Deeds!
Episode 002 - The Achievement of Epicurus
Episode 001 - Lucretius - Book One Venus / Pleasure As Guide Of Life
Chart Of Key Concepts
Explanation Of Key Concepts
Nothing Comes From Nothing Or Goes To Nothing Supernaturally
The Universe Is Infinite In Size and Eternal In Time And Has No Gods Over It
True Divinity Is Incorruptible And Blessed
Death Is Nothing To Us
There Is No Necessity To Live Under The Control Of Necessity
He Who Says Nothing Can Be Known Knows Nothing
All Sensations Are True
The Criteria Of Truth Are The Sensations, Anticipations, and Feelings
Dialectical Logic, Radical Skepticism, And Divine Revelation Do Not Determine Truth.
Platonic Ideal Forms, Aristotelian Essences, And Divine Revelation Do Not Exist.
Happiness Is The Goal of Life. A Life of Happiness Is A Life In Which Pleasure Predominates Over Pain
Pleasure Is the Guide, Beginning, And End Of The Life
The Term "Pleasure" Is The Exact Equivalent Of "Absence of Pain."
Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End In Itself.
Life Is Desirable, But Unlimited Time Contains No Greater Pleasure Than Limited Time
Primary Sources
Recommended Reading
Key Quotations - Outline
Key Quotations - Chart
Comparison Chart - Epicurus vs Others
Timeline Of School Leadership
Diogenes Laertius Book Ten
Lucretius - Bailey
Lucretius - Side By Side Translations
Torquatus On Ethics
Velleius On Divinity
Diogenes Laertius Book 10
Epicurus - Extant Remains
Diogenes of Oinoanda
Philodemus - On Signs
Philodemus - On Signs PDF
Fragments - Bailey
Fragments - Usener
Secondary Sources And Texts
Library Contents
Finding Aids
Diogenes Laertius Finding Aid
Lucretius Finding Aid
Recommended Reading
Other Lucretius Aids
Brown/Dunster
Humphries
Latin Original
Leonard
MF Smith
Munro
Rouse
Rouse Introduction
Topic Outline
Editions Guide
Cicero's Works
Academic Questions
On Ends - Reid
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