269 Episodes

  1. Episode 029 - The Earth As Allegorical Mother of All

    Published: 8/2/2020

  2. Episode 028 - The Number of Shapes of Atoms Is Not Infinite, But Innumerable

    Published: 7/20/2020

  3. Episode 027 - There is A Limit To the Size of Atoms

    Published: 7/17/2020

  4. Episode 026: The Atoms Are Not Uniform In Shape

    Published: 7/11/2020

  5. Episode 025: The Swerve Part Two: As The Basis of Human Agency

    Published: 7/3/2020

  6. Episode 024 - The Swerve Part One: As A Producing Force of Nature

    Published: 6/27/2020

  7. Episode 023 - The Motion Of The Atoms Continues WIthout Resting Place, and At Great Speed

    Published: 6/24/2020

  8. Episode 022 - Book Two - Epicurean Philosophy As The Only Way To Defeat Fear of Death And Other Errors As To The Goal of Life

    Published: 6/12/2020

  9. Episode 021 - The Universe Has No Center

    Published: 6/6/2020

  10. Episode 020 - The Universe Is Infinite In Size

    Published: 5/30/2020

  11. Episode 019 - All Things Are Not Made of Pieces of the Same Thing, Or Pieces of All Things

    Published: 5/23/2020

  12. Episode 018 - All Things Are Not Made of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water

    Published: 5/16/2020

  13. Episode 017 - All Things Are Not Made Of A Single Element, Such as Fire

    Published: 5/9/2020

  14. Episode 016 - The Atoms Are Un-Destroyable And Provide Continuity To All Nature

    Published: 4/27/2020

  15. Episode 015 - Recap Two - Reflections On Book One So Far

    Published: 4/26/2020

  16. Episode 014 - Atoms Are Solid and Indestructible And Constitute the Seeds Of All Things

    Published: 4/22/2020

  17. Episode 013 - Properties, Qualities, and the Trojan War

    Published: 4/10/2020

  18. Episode 012 - Nothing But Combinations Of Matter And Void

    Published: 3/30/2020

  19. Episode 011 - More On The Void and Its Implications

    Published: 3/28/2020

  20. Episode 010 - The Void And Its Nature

    Published: 3/22/2020

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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.