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Lucretius Today - Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy
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Episode 327 - Intelligent Design vs Emergence
48 mins; April 03, 2026
Episode 326 - Who Cares About Infinite Divisibility? And Why?
41 mins; March 27, 2026
Episode 325 - The False Platonic Division of The Universe Between A Force Which Causes All Things And That Which The Force Acts Upon
44 mins; March 20, 2026
Episode 324 - Is Pleasure The Good, Or The Enemy Of The Good?
47 mins; March 14, 2026
Episode 323 - The Pre-Epicurean View - Three Divisions of Philosophy And Three Divisions of Goods
27 mins; March 05, 2026
Episode 322 - Epicurean Moral Outrage Against Socrates
45 mins; February 27, 2026
Episode 321 - The Epicurean Criticism of Socrates For Denouncing Natural Science
53 mins; February 20, 2026
Episode 320 - Are the Good of A Sheep And Of A Man The Same?
31 mins; February 13, 2026
Episode 319 - Is the Key To Happiness Found In Supernatural Causes and Geometry?
46 mins; February 05, 2026
Episode 318 - In The End It Is Pleasure - Not Virtue - That Gives Meaning To A Happy Life
33 mins; January 31, 2026
Episode 317 - The Epicurean System of Counterbalancing In Pursuit of Pleasure
39 mins; January 21, 2026
Episode 316 - Happiness Is The Goal Of Life - A Life of Happiness Is A Life Of Pleasure
42 mins; January 17, 2026
Episode 315 - Preventing Pain From Destroying Happiness
49 mins; January 08, 2026
Episode 314 - Cicero Challenges Epicurus - Can Pleasures Really Overcome Pains?
34 mins; December 31, 2025
Episode 313 - Diagnosing When Words Are Empty Of Meaning
47 mins; December 27, 2025
Episode 312 - Word Games Are No Substitute For Reality
35 mins; December 21, 2025
Episode 311 - Is Pain The Only Reason We Should Be Concerned About Any Aspect Of Death And Dying
41 mins; December 16, 2025
Episode 310 - Neither Happiness Nor Virtue Are Binary States
41 mins; December 05, 2025
Episode 309 - The Error Of Basing Happiness On The Alleged Divinity Of The Human Mind
51 mins; November 26, 2025
Episode 308 - Tracing Four Key Epicurean Ideas From The Principal Doctrines To The Tetrapharmakon To Cicero's Epicureans
46 mins; November 21, 2025
Episode 307 - How The Wise Epicurean Is Always Happy
54 mins; November 12, 2025
Episode 306 - Is A Life That Is 99 Percent Happy Really Happy?
43 mins; November 07, 2025
Episode 305 - Shall We Stoically Be A Spectator To Life And Content Ourselves With "Virtue"?
50 mins; November 01, 2025
Episode 304 - Epicurus vs The Stoics On Strong Emotions
43 mins; October 25, 2025
Episode 303 - Is It Truly Impossible To Advocate For Epicurus In The Public Sphere?
50 mins; October 17, 2025
Episode 302 - Epicurus And The Road That Is Paved With Good Intentions
53 mins; October 09, 2025
Episode 301 - Epicurus And The Question of Ends Justifying Means
44 mins; October 03, 2025
Episode 300 - An Epicurean Twist on The Lesson of King Canute
53 mins; September 26, 2025
Episode 299 - Was Epicurus Right That There Are Only Two Feelings - Pleasure And Pain?
55 mins; September 16, 2025
Episode 298 - Facts And Feelings In Epicurean Philosophy
53 mins; September 12, 2025
Episode 297 - Is Philosophy At War With Perfume?
47 mins; September 04, 2025
Episode 296 - Ancient Criticisms Of "Absence of Pain" Echo In The Modern World
54 mins; August 29, 2025
Episode 295 - Plutarch's Absurd Interpretation of Epicurean Absence of Pain
61 hours 50 mins; August 19, 2025
Episode 294 - Distinguishing Dogs From Wolves And Pleasure From Absence Of Pain
62 hours 10 mins; August 12, 2025
Episode 293 - Cicero Accuses Epicurus Of Evasion In Calling Absence of Pain A Pleasure
64 hours 9 mins; August 06, 2025
Episode 292 - Is Virtue Or Pleasure The Key To Overcoming Grief?
45 mins; July 30, 2025
Episode 291 - Epicurus Pushes Back Against "Expect The Worst And You'll Never Be Disappointed"
40 mins; July 25, 2025
Episode 290 - Tiptoeing Around All Disturbance Is Not Living
48 mins; July 16, 2025
Episode 289 - Epicureans Are Not Spocks!
48 mins; July 10, 2025
Episode 288 - Will the Wise Man Feel Grief Or Other Strong Emotions?
51 mins; July 03, 2025
Episode 287 - The Fear of Pain Is Overrated, But Cicero and Epicurus Disagree As To Why
46 mins; June 24, 2025
Episode 286 - Confronting Pain With Reason Rather Than "Virtue"
63 hours 50 mins; June 20, 2025
Episode 285 - The Significance Of The Limits Of Pain
47 mins; June 13, 2025
Episode 284 - In Dealing With Pain, Does Practice Make Perfect? Or Does Practice Make For A Happy Life?
47 mins; June 03, 2025
Episode 283 - "Philosophy For the Millions"
28 mins; May 31, 2025
Episode 282 - Is a Trifling Pain A Greater Evil Than The Worst Infamy?
56 mins; May 29, 2025
Episode 281 -Is Pain The Greatest Evil - Or An Evil At All?
43 mins; May 21, 2025
Episode 280 - On Death And Daring To Live
52 mins; May 14, 2025
Episode 279 - On Dying "Before One's Time"
39 mins; May 08, 2025
Episode 278 - Two Opposite Views On Being Better Off Dead
62 hours 48 mins; May 01, 2025
Episode 277 - Platonism Says This World Is Darkness - Epicurus Disagrees!
56 mins; April 22, 2025
Episode 276 - Is Memory Evidence of Divinity Of The Soul?
55 mins; April 15, 2025
Episode 275 - Does Motion Prove The Existence Of God And The Divinity Of The Soul?
53 mins; April 10, 2025
Episode 274 - Is The Soul Held Down By The Body, And Death Allow The Soul To Ascend To A Better Place?
61 hours 4 mins; April 04, 2025
Episode 273 - Is The Soul Immortal, And Death Actually a Good?
63 hours 41 mins; March 24, 2025
Episode 272 - Is Death An Evil? - TD02
56 mins; March 17, 2025
Episode 271 - Understanding Epicurus Through Tusculan Disputations - TD01
35 mins; March 14, 2025
Episode 270 - Life Is Desirable, But Unlimited Time Contains No Greater Pleasure Than Limited Time
59 mins; March 08, 2025
Episode 269 - By Pleasure We Mean The Absence of Pain
57 mins; February 25, 2025
Episode 268 - Pleasure Is The Guide Of Life
69 hours 11 mins; February 21, 2025
Episode 267 - Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End In Itself - All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation
59 mins; February 12, 2025
Episode 266 - The Epicurean Paradigm Shift
62 hours 0 mins; February 05, 2025
Episode 265 - The Deep-Set Boundary Stone - Epicurus and The Perils of Applying Geometry to Ethics
31 mins; January 26, 2025
Episode 264 - "Bread and Water!!?? Debunking the Myth of Epicurean Asceticism"
23 mins; January 22, 2025
Episode 263 - All Sensations Are True
66 hours 13 mins; January 16, 2025
Episode 262 - He Who Says "Nothing Can Be Known" Knows Nothing
60 hours 57 mins; January 08, 2025
Episode 261 - Death Is Nothing To Us
56 mins; December 30, 2024
Episode 260 - The Universe Is Infinite And Eternal And Has No Gods Over It
54 mins; December 24, 2024
Episode 259 - Nothing Comes From Nothing
52 mins; December 21, 2024
Episode 258 - There Is No Necessity To Live Under Necessity - Part 2 - Conclusion
57 mins; December 09, 2024
Episode 257 - There Is No Necessity To Live Under Necessity - Part 1
52 mins; December 06, 2024
Episode 256 - Epicurean Gods: Real, Or Ideal Thought Constructs?
78 hours 0 mins; November 26, 2024
Episode 255 - Cotta Argues That Epicurean Gods Are As Despicable As Are Epicureans Themselves - CIcero's OTNOTG 30
45 mins; November 18, 2024
Episode 254 - The Skeptic Asks: Does Not Epicurus Undermine Religion As Much Any Outright Atheist? - Cicero's OTNOTG 29
52 mins; November 11, 2024
Episode 253 - How The "Riddle Of Epicurus" Fits Into the Epicurean View of The Gods - Cicero's OTNOTG 28
56 mins; November 05, 2024
Episode 252 - Cicero's OTNOTG 27 - Why Reverence The Epicurean Gods?
48 mins; October 29, 2024
Episode 251 - Cicero's OTNOTG 26 - How Niagara Falls Helps Us Understand the Flux, the Heap, and the Epicurean Gods
44 mins; October 26, 2024
Episode 250 - Cicero's OTNOTG 25: The Relationship of "Images" To All Human Thought - Not Just To "The Gods"
62 hours 51 mins; October 14, 2024
Episode 249 - Cicero's OTNOTG 24 - Are The Epicurean Gods Totally Inactive, And Are We To Emulate Them Through Laziness?
63 hours 4 mins; October 12, 2024
Episode 248 - Cicero's OTNOTG 23 - Cotta Pushes The "Argument By Design" Against The Epicurean View That All - Including Gods - Is Natural
43 mins; October 02, 2024
Episode 247 - Cicero's OTNOTG 22 - Cotta Continues To Attack The Epicurean View That Gods Are Natural Living Beings
45 mins; September 28, 2024
Episode 246 - Cicero's OTNOTG 21 - Examining Epicurean Evidence-Based Reasoning
58 mins; September 17, 2024
Episode 246 Recording
50 mins; September 17, 2024
Episode 245 - Cicero's OTNOTG 20 - Right, Wrong, Or Incomplete?
49 mins; September 13, 2024
Episode 244 - CIcero's OTNOTG 19 - Zeno's Paradoxes: Profundity or Gaslighting?
53 mins; September 03, 2024
Episode 243 - OTNOTG 18 - From "All Sensations Are True" to Reasoning By Similarity And Analogy
48 mins; August 28, 2024
Episode 242 - Cicero's OTNOTG 17 - Is Truth A Matter Of Logic?
63 hours 48 mins; August 21, 2024
Episode 241 - Cicero's OTNOTG 16 - A Common Thread Between The Epicurean View Of "The Gods" and "The Good"
58 mins; August 13, 2024
Episode 240 - OTNOTG 15 - The False Allegation That "General Assent" Was The Epicurean Basis For Divinity
44 mins; August 06, 2024
Episode 239 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 14 - The Dishonesty Of Academic Skepticism vs. Epicurus' Commitment To Truth
55 mins; July 29, 2024
Episode 238 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 13 - Velleius Erupts Against Stoic Fate and Supernatural God-Making
54 mins; July 23, 2024
Episode 237 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 12 - Isonomia And The Implications of Infinity
57 mins; July 16, 2024
Episode 236 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 11 - Lucretian Support For Velleius' Views of Epicurean Divinity
51 mins; July 11, 2024
Episode 235 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 10 - Velleius Explains the Epicurean Proleptic View Of Divinity
64 hours 19 mins; July 02, 2024
Episode 234 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 09 - Dealing With Marcus Aurelius And The Epicurean Canonical Basis for Divinity
53 mins; June 24, 2024
Episode 233 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 08 - An Epicurean Attack On The False God Of Stoicism
58 mins; June 18, 2024
Episode 232 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 07 - Velleius Attacks The Platonist And Aristotelian Views Of Gods
52 mins; June 14, 2024
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?
43 mins; June 07, 2024
Episode 230 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 05 - Velleius Attacks Misplaced Ideas of Divinity
56 mins; May 27, 2024
Episode 229 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 04 - Velleius Continues His Assault On Intelligent Design
49 mins; May 22, 2024
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