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Lucretius Today - Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy
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Episode 128 - Special Episode - Short Review of the Twelve Fundamentals of Nature
30 mins; July 03, 2022
Episode 127 - Letter to Pythocles 02 - The Formation of "Worlds"
57 mins; June 25, 2022
Episode 126 - Letter to Pythocles 01 - Introduction On The Basic Approach of Epicurean Philosophy
78 hours 50 mins; June 14, 2022
Episode 125 - Letter to Herodotus 14 - Purpose and Method of Studying Nature - Conclusion
58 mins; June 11, 2022
Episode 124 - Letter to Herodotus 13 - Life On Other Worlds, Development of Language, And the Regular Motion of the Stars
56 mins; June 03, 2022
Episode 123 - Letter to Herodotus 12 - Events and Time (More on Properties and Qualities)
53 mins; May 28, 2022
Episode 122 - Letter to Herodotus 11 - What it Means to "Exist" - Properties and Qualities
46 mins; May 19, 2022
Episode 121 - Letter to Herodotus 10 - Atoms and The Soul
65 hours 57 mins; May 14, 2022
Episode 120 - Letter to Herodotus 9 - Epicurus' Rejection of Infinite Divisibility
56 mins; May 06, 2022
Episode 119 - Letter to Herodotus 8 - More On Perception Through The Atoms
61 hours 4 mins; April 30, 2022
Episode 118 - Letter to Herodotus 7 - Images - There's More To Them Than Meets the Eye
70 hours 35 mins; April 21, 2022
Episode 117 - Letter to Herodotus 6 - The Doctrine of Infinity of Worlds And Its Implications
64 hours 44 mins; April 11, 2022
Episode 116 - Letter to Herodotus 5 - More Fundamentals of Physics
66 hours 35 mins; April 07, 2022
Episode 115 - Letter to Herodotus 4 - Atoms, Void, and Basic Epistemology Issues
54 mins; March 31, 2022
Episode 114 - Letter to Herodotus 3 - First Principles of Physics
63 hours 41 mins; March 25, 2022
Episode 113 - Letter to Herodotus 2 - Principles of Thinking
60 hours 36 mins; March 17, 2022
Episode 112 - Epicurus' Letter to Herodotus - Introduction and Outlining
50 mins; March 12, 2022
Episode 111 - Torquatus Summarizes The Significance of the Epicurus
63 hours 40 mins; March 04, 2022
Episode 110 - The Epicurean View of Friendship (Part Two)
58 mins; February 22, 2022
Episode 109 - The Epicurean View of Friendship
66 hours 52 mins; February 17, 2022
Episode 108 - The Benefits of A Proper Understanding of the Senses and of Natural Science
61 hours 55 mins; February 10, 2022
Episode 107 - The Epicurean Emphasis on Natural Science
53 mins; February 03, 2022
Episode 106 - The Epicurean Attitude Toward Fate / Fortune and the Role of Reason
55 mins; January 28, 2022
Episode 105 - More From Torquatus On The Key Doctrines of Epicurus
54 mins; January 19, 2022
Episode 104 - More Torquatus and a Question: Was The Ancient Epicurean Movement A Cult?
67 hours 46 mins; January 12, 2022
Episode 103 - Corollaries to the Doctrines of Epicurus - Part Three
60 hours 35 mins; January 06, 2022
Episode 102 - Corollaries to the Doctrines of Epicurus - Part Two
56 mins; December 31, 2021
Episode 101 - Corollaries to the Doctrines of Epicurus - Part One
22 mins; December 22, 2021
Episode 100 - Concluding On Justice With A Shout To Keep The Virtues In Their Proper Place
69 hours 10 mins; December 17, 2021
Episode 099 - The Epicurean View of Justice (Part Two)
63 hours 15 mins; December 09, 2021
Episode 098 - The Epicurean View of Justice (Part One)
74 hours 50 mins; December 02, 2021
Episode 097 - The Virtues As Instrumental For Pleasure: Temperance and Courage
46 mins; November 26, 2021
Episode 096 - Episode Ninety-Six - The Proof That Pleasure (And Not Virtue) Is the Supreme Good
65 hours 47 mins; November 15, 2021
Episode 095 - Understanding The Paradoxical "Absence of Pain"
70 hours 16 mins; November 10, 2021
Episode 094 - Torquatus Explains Pleasure As The Goal Of Life
74 hours 42 mins; November 06, 2021
Episode 093 - Torquatus Leads Us Forward Into Conflict Over Epicurean Ethics
87 hours 15 mins; October 25, 2021
Episode 092 - The Plague of Athens, And The End of the Poem
66 hours 58 mins; October 12, 2021
Episode 091 - More on Magnetism, and Introduction To Disease And Plagues
43 mins; October 03, 2021
Episode 090 - Special Guest Panelist - Preparation for Discussion of Magnetism
67 hours 4 mins; September 26, 2021
Episode 089 - Unusual Geological Phenomena - Springs That Change From Hot to Cold And Back Again
45 mins; September 25, 2021
Episode 088 - The Waters of the Nile And The Sulfur Pits That Are Fatal To Birds
56 mins; September 18, 2021
Episode 087 - Earthquakes and The Water Cycle
42 mins; September 05, 2021
Episode 086 - Typhoons and Whirlwinds
40 mins; September 04, 2021
Episode 085 - Thunder and Lightning Part 3 - Why Do The Gods Send Thunderbolts Onto Their Own Temples?
36 mins; August 28, 2021
Episode 084 - Thunder and Lightning Part Two - Very Very Frightening
51 mins; August 21, 2021
Episode 083 - Meteorology: Thunder and Lightning Part One
47 mins; August 14, 2021
Episode 082 - Opening of Book Six - Restatement of Goal of Poem
50 mins; August 06, 2021
Episode 081 - Development of the Arts And The End of Book Five
54 mins; July 31, 2021
Episode 080 - The Development of Metallurgy And The Art of War
40 mins; July 18, 2021
Episode 079 - The Cause Of The Arising of Belief In Gods
47 mins; July 16, 2021
Episode 078 - Ethical Issues Arising In the Formation Of Societies
49 mins; July 09, 2021
Episode 077 - The Formation of Language and Early Societies
41 mins; July 02, 2021
Episode 076 - Early Humans and Their Society
35 mins; June 26, 2021
Episode 075 - The Rise of Life On Earth, And Which Forms Were Possible And Impossible
41 mins; June 17, 2021
Episode 074 - Eclipses, And The Beginnings of Life on Earth
53 mins; June 08, 2021
Episode 073 - More on the Sun and Moon And Similar Astronomical Issues
45 mins; June 04, 2021
Episode 072 - Alternative Explanations in Science, and The Size of The Sun
49 mins; May 26, 2021
Episode 071 - Back To The Beginning - The Beginning of Our Corner of the Universe
43 mins; May 19, 2021
Episode 070 - More On The End Of The World
35 mins; May 15, 2021
Episode 069 - The Eventual End of Our World
41 mins; May 08, 2021
Episode 068 - This World Was Not Made By The Gods For Humanity
34 mins; April 27, 2021
Episode 067 - Did The Gods Wake Up One Day To Create The Universe?
51 mins; April 19, 2021
Episode 066 - The End of All Things (But Not Of The Universe Itself!)
43 mins; April 13, 2021
Episode 065 - Introducing a New Panelist (Don) and A Recap of the Opening of Book Five
33 mins; April 09, 2021
Episode 064 - Due To His Accomplishments, Epicurus Should Be Thought Of As Godlike
30 mins; March 30, 2021
Episode 063 - The Perils of Romantic Love (Part 3 - End of Book 4)
53 mins; March 25, 2021
Episode 062 - The Perils of Romantic Love (Part 2)
51 mins; March 14, 2021
Episode 061 - The Perils of Romantic Love (Part 1)
57 mins; March 11, 2021
Episode 060 - Dreams, And The Mind's Use of Images
43 mins; February 28, 2021
Episode 059 - The Uses Of The Body Were Not Designed Before They Arose
37 mins; February 27, 2021
Episode 058 - The Mind's Direct Receipt of Images
61 hours 3 mins; February 19, 2021
Episode 057 - Taste, Smell, and the Subjectivity of the Senses
59 mins; February 12, 2021
Episode 056 - More On The Operation Of The Senses
37 mins; February 06, 2021
Episode 055 - Reason Is Dependent on The Senses (Part 2)
61 hours 2 mins; January 25, 2021
Episode 054 - Reason Is Dependent on the Senses
58 mins; January 17, 2021
Episode 053 - The Senses Are Never Deceived, Even By Illusions
41 mins; January 16, 2021
Episode 052 - More on Light, Vision, and Reflections
27 mins; January 10, 2021
Episode 051 - More On The Working of "Images"
49 mins; January 02, 2021
Episode 050 - The Opening of Book Four - Images
42 mins; December 26, 2020
Episode 049 - Conclusions On Death And The End of Book Three
48 mins; December 21, 2020
Episode 048 - Nature Speaks To Us About Death
48 mins; December 11, 2020
Episode 047 - Death Is Nothing To Us
32 mins; December 05, 2020
Episode 046 - Conclusion of the Presentation that the Mind and Soul Cannot Survive Death
34 mins; November 28, 2020
Episode 045 - More on The Mortality of the Mind and Soul
35 mins; November 20, 2020
Episode 044 - Additional Evidence By Which We Conclude The Mind Cannot Survive Apart from the Body
35 mins; November 13, 2020
Episode 043 - The Mind is Born, Grows Old, and Dies With the Body
42 mins; November 07, 2020
Episode 042 - The Mind Works Through the Senses; Both Mind and Spirit Are Mortal
39 mins; October 30, 2020
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
48 mins; October 25, 2020
Episode 040 - Argument That The Mind and Spirit Are Corporeal
48 mins; October 17, 2020
Episode 039 - The Mind And Spirit Are Not Supernatural But Parts of A Man Just Like The Head and Foot
41 mins; October 09, 2020
Episode 038 - Book Three - Epicurus Our Guide Who Dispels The Darkness of Error and Fear of Hell
51 mins; September 27, 2020
Episode 037 - End of Book 2 - The Earth Too Was Born, and It Will One Day Die
48 mins; September 26, 2020
Episode 036 - No Single Thing of A Kind: Earth Not The Only Home of Life
40 mins; September 19, 2020
Episode 035 - More Reasons Why Atoms Cannot Possess The Faculty of Sense
33 mins; September 13, 2020
Episode 034 - The Atoms Do Not Possess A Faculty of Sensation
32 mins; August 30, 2020
Episode 033 - More On the Implications of The Colorless Atoms
48 mins; August 25, 2020
Episode 032 - The Atoms Are Colorless, But The Implications of That Are Not
45 mins; August 22, 2020
Episode 031 - Continuation of Episode 30 And Discussion of the Polyaenus Example
31 mins; August 10, 2020
Episode 030 - Only A Limited Number of Combinations Of Atoms Is Possible
57 mins; August 06, 2020
Episode 029 - The Earth As Allegorical Mother of All
32 mins; August 01, 2020
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