269 Episodes

  1. Episode 249 - Cicero's OTNOTG 24 - Are The Epicurean Gods Totally Inactive, And Are We To Emulate Them Through Laziness?

    Published: 10/12/2024

  2. Episode 248 - Cicero's OTNOTG 23 - Cotta Pushes The "Argument By Design" Against The Epicurean View That All - Including Gods - Is Natural

    Published: 10/2/2024

  3. Episode 247 - Cicero's OTNOTG 22 - Cotta Continues To Attack The Epicurean View That Gods Are Natural Living Beings

    Published: 9/28/2024

  4. Episode 246 - Cicero's OTNOTG 21 - Examining Epicurean Evidence-Based Reasoning

    Published: 9/17/2024

  5. Episode 245 - Cicero's OTNOTG 20 - Right, Wrong, Or Incomplete?

    Published: 9/13/2024

  6. Episode 244 - CIcero's OTNOTG 19 - Zeno's Paradoxes: Profundity or Gaslighting?

    Published: 9/3/2024

  7. Episode 243 - OTNOTG 18 - From "All Sensations Are True" to Reasoning By Similarity And Analogy

    Published: 8/28/2024

  8. Episode 242 - Cicero's OTNOTG 17 - Is Truth A Matter Of Logic?

    Published: 8/21/2024

  9. Episode 241 - Cicero's OTNOTG 16 - A Common Thread Between The Epicurean View Of "The Gods" and "The Good"

    Published: 8/13/2024

  10. Episode 240 - OTNOTG 15 - The False Allegation That "General Assent" Was The Epicurean Basis For Divinity

    Published: 8/6/2024

  11. Episode 239 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 14 - The Dishonesty Of Academic Skepticism vs. Epicurus' Commitment To Truth

    Published: 7/29/2024

  12. Episode 238 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 13 - Velleius Erupts Against Stoic Fate and Supernatural God-Making

    Published: 7/24/2024

  13. Episode 237 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 12 - Isonomia And The Implications of Infinity

    Published: 7/17/2024

  14. Episode 236 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 11 - Lucretian Support For Velleius' Views of Epicurean Divinity

    Published: 7/11/2024

  15. Episode 235 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 10 - Velleius Explains the Epicurean Proleptic View Of Divinity

    Published: 7/2/2024

  16. Episode 234 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 09 - Dealing With Marcus Aurelius And The Epicurean Canonical Basis for Divinity

    Published: 6/24/2024

  17. Episode 233 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 08 - An Epicurean Attack On The False God Of Stoicism

    Published: 6/18/2024

  18. Episode 232 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 07 - Velleius Attacks The Platonist And Aristotelian Views Of Gods

    Published: 6/15/2024

  19. 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?

    Published: 6/7/2024

  20. Episode 230 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 05 - Velleius Attacks Misplaced Ideas of Divinity

    Published: 5/27/2024

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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.