Lucretius Today - Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy

Cassius Amicus

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.

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Lucretius Today - Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy

Episodios

Episode 322 - Epicurean Moral Outrage Against Socrates

Episode 321 - The Epicurean Criticism of Socrates For Denouncing Natural Science

Episode 320 - Are the Good of A Sheep And Of A Man The Same?

Episode 319 - Is the Key To Happiness Found In Supernatural Causes and Geometry?

Episode 318 - In The End It Is Pleasure - Not Virtue - That Gives Meaning To A Happy Life

Episode 317 - The Epicurean System of Counterbalancing In Pursuit of Pleasure

Episode 316 - Happiness Is The Goal Of Life - A Life of Happiness Is A Life Of Pleasure

Episode 315 - Preventing Pain From Destroying Happiness

Episode 314 - Cicero Challenges Epicurus - Can Pleasures Really Overcome Pains?

Episode 313 - Diagnosing When Words Are Empty Of Meaning

Episode 312 - Word Games Are No Substitute For Reality

Episode 311 - Is Pain The Only Reason We Should Be Concerned About Any Aspect Of Death And Dying

Episode 310 - Neither Happiness Nor Virtue Are Binary States

Episode 309 - The Error Of Basing Happiness On The Alleged Divinity Of The Human Mind

Episode 308 - Tracing Four Key Epicurean Ideas From The Principal Doctrines To The Tetrapharmakon To Cicero's Epicureans

Episode 307 - How The Wise Epicurean Is Always Happy

Episode 306 - Is A Life That Is 99 Percent Happy Really Happy?

Episode 305 - Shall We Stoically Be A Spectator To Life And Content Ourselves With "Virtue"?

Episode 304 - Epicurus vs The Stoics On Strong Emotions

Episode 303 - Is It Truly Impossible To Advocate For Epicurus In The Public Sphere?

Episode 302 - Epicurus And The Road That Is Paved With Good Intentions

Episode 301 - Epicurus And The Question of Ends Justifying Means

Episode 300 - An Epicurean Twist on The Lesson of King Canute

Episode 299 - Was Epicurus Right That There Are Only Two Feelings - Pleasure And Pain?

Episode 298 - Facts And Feelings In Epicurean Philosophy

Episode 297 - Is Philosophy At War With Perfume?

Episode 296 - Ancient Criticisms Of "Absence of Pain" Echo In The Modern World

Episode 295 - Plutarch's Absurd Interpretation of Epicurean Absence of Pain

Episode 294 - Distinguishing Dogs From Wolves And Pleasure From Absence Of Pain

Episode 293 - Cicero Accuses Epicurus Of Evasion In Calling Absence of Pain A Pleasure

Episode 292 - Is Virtue Or Pleasure The Key To Overcoming Grief?

Episode 291 - Epicurus Pushes Back Against "Expect The Worst And You'll Never Be Disappointed"

Episode 290 - Tiptoeing Around All Disturbance Is Not Living

Episode 289 - Epicureans Are Not Spocks!

Episode 288 - Will the Wise Man Feel Grief Or Other Strong Emotions?

Episode 287 - The Fear of Pain Is Overrated, But Cicero and Epicurus Disagree As To Why

Episode 286 - Confronting Pain With Reason Rather Than "Virtue"

Episode 285 - The Significance Of The Limits Of Pain

Episode 284 - In Dealing With Pain, Does Practice Make Perfect? Or Does Practice Make For A Happy Life?

Episode 283 - "Philosophy For the Millions"

Episode 282 - Is a Trifling Pain A Greater Evil Than The Worst Infamy?

Episode 281 -Is Pain The Greatest Evil - Or An Evil At All?

Episode 280 - On Death And Daring To Live

Episode 279 - On Dying "Before One's Time"

Episode 278 - Two Opposite Views On Being Better Off Dead

Episode 277 - Platonism Says This World Is Darkness - Epicurus Disagrees!

Episode 276 - Is Memory Evidence of Divinity Of The Soul?

Episode 275 - Does Motion Prove The Existence Of God And The Divinity Of The Soul?

Episode 274 - Is The Soul Held Down By The Body, And Death Allow The Soul To Ascend To A Better Place?

Episode 273 - Is The Soul Immortal, And Death Actually a Good?