269 Episodes

  1. Episode 269 - By Pleasure We Mean The Absence of Pain

    Published: 2/25/2025

  2. Episode 268 - Pleasure Is The Guide Of Life

    Published: 2/21/2025

  3. Episode 267 - Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End In Itself - All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation

    Published: 2/12/2025

  4. Episode 266 - The Epicurean Paradigm Shift

    Published: 2/5/2025

  5. Episode 265 - The Deep-Set Boundary Stone - Epicurus and The Perils of Applying Geometry to Ethics

    Published: 1/26/2025

  6. Episode 264 - "Bread and Water!!?? Debunking the Myth of Epicurean Asceticism"

    Published: 1/22/2025

  7. Episode 263 - All Sensations Are True

    Published: 1/17/2025

  8. Episode 262 - He Who Says "Nothing Can Be Known" Knows Nothing

    Published: 1/8/2025

  9. Episode 261 - Death Is Nothing To Us

    Published: 12/31/2024

  10. Episode 260 - The Universe Is Infinite And Eternal And Has No Gods Over It

    Published: 12/24/2024

  11. Episode 259 - Nothing Comes From Nothing

    Published: 12/21/2024

  12. Episode 258 - There Is No Necessity To Live Under Necessity - Part 2 - Conclusion

    Published: 12/9/2024

  13. Episode 257 - There Is No Necessity To Live Under Necessity - Part 1

    Published: 12/6/2024

  14. Episode 256 - Epicurean Gods: Real, Or Ideal Thought Constructs?

    Published: 11/26/2024

  15. Episode 255 - Cotta Argues That Epicurean Gods Are As Despicable As Are Epicureans Themselves - CIcero's OTNOTG 30

    Published: 11/18/2024

  16. Episode 254 - The Skeptic Asks: Does Not Epicurus Undermine Religion As Much Any Outright Atheist? - Cicero's OTNOTG 29

    Published: 11/11/2024

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

    Published: 11/5/2024

  18. Episode 252 - Cicero's OTNOTG 27 - Why Reverence The Epicurean Gods?

    Published: 10/29/2024

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

    Published: 10/26/2024

  20. Episode 250 - Cicero's OTNOTG 25: The Relationship of "Images" To All Human Thought - Not Just To "The Gods"

    Published: 10/14/2024

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Lucretius Today is a podcast dedicated to learning Epicurean philosophy through study of the poet Lucretius, who lived in the age of Julius Caesar and wrote "On The Nature of Things," the only complete presentation of Epicurus' ideas left to us from the ancient world. We'll walk you line by line through the six books of Lucretius' poem, and we'll discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. In this podcast we won't be talking about modern political issues. How you apply Epicurus in your own life is entirely up to you. Over at the Epicureanfriends.com web forum, we apply this approach by following a set of ground rules we call "Not Neo-Epicurean, But Epicurean." Epicurean philosophy is not a religion, it''s not Stoicism, it's not Humanism, it's not Libertarianism, it's not Atheism, and it's not Marxism or any other philosophy - it is unique in the history of Western Civilization, and as we explore Lucretius's poem you'll quickly see how that is the case. The home page of this podcast is LucretiusToday.com, and there you can find a free copy of the version of the poem from which we are reading, and links to where you can discuss the poem between episodes at Epicureanfriends.com.