269 Episodes

  1. Episode 069 - The Eventual End of Our World

    Published: 5/8/2021

  2. Episode 068 - This World Was Not Made By The Gods For Humanity

    Published: 4/28/2021

  3. Episode 067 - Did The Gods Wake Up One Day To Create The Universe?

    Published: 4/19/2021

  4. Episode 066 - The End of All Things (But Not Of The Universe Itself!)

    Published: 4/13/2021

  5. Episode 065 - Introducing a New Panelist (Don) and A Recap of the Opening of Book Five

    Published: 4/9/2021

  6. Episode 064 - Due To His Accomplishments, Epicurus Should Be Thought Of As Godlike

    Published: 3/31/2021

  7. Episode 063 - The Perils of Romantic Love (Part 3 - End of Book 4)

    Published: 3/26/2021

  8. Episode 062 - The Perils of Romantic Love (Part 2)

    Published: 3/15/2021

  9. Episode 061 - The Perils of Romantic Love (Part 1)

    Published: 3/12/2021

  10. Episode 060 - Dreams, And The Mind's Use of Images

    Published: 3/1/2021

  11. Episode 059 - The Uses Of The Body Were Not Designed Before They Arose

    Published: 2/27/2021

  12. Episode 058 - The Mind's Direct Receipt of Images

    Published: 2/20/2021

  13. Episode 057 - Taste, Smell, and the Subjectivity of the Senses

    Published: 2/12/2021

  14. Episode 056 - More On The Operation Of The Senses

    Published: 2/6/2021

  15. Episode 055 - Reason Is Dependent on The Senses (Part 2)

    Published: 1/25/2021

  16. Episode 054 - Reason Is Dependent on the Senses

    Published: 1/17/2021

  17. Episode 053 - The Senses Are Never Deceived, Even By Illusions

    Published: 1/16/2021

  18. Episode 052 - More on Light, Vision, and Reflections

    Published: 1/11/2021

  19. Episode 051 - More On The Working of "Images"

    Published: 1/3/2021

  20. Episode 050 - The Opening of Book Four - Images

    Published: 12/27/2020

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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.