Episode 342 - Were Our Minds Designed To Be Good At Pursuing Knowledge?

Episode 342 - Were Our Minds Designed To Be Good At Pursuing Knowledge?

Welcome to Episode 342 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the most complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. Each week we walk you through the Epicurean texts, and we discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. If you find the Epicurean worldview attractive, we invite you to join us in the study of Epicurus at EpicureanFriends.com, where we discuss this and all of our podcast episodes. This week we are continuing our series reviewing Cicero's "Academic Questions" from an Epicurean perspective, which gives us an overview of the issues that split Plato's Academy and helps us understand Epicurus' position on the same issues. This week will continue in Section 10 [https://epicurustoday.com/02-key-sources/045-cicero-academic-questions-yonge/#x-1] of Book Two. Our text will come from Cicero - Academic Questions - Yonge [https://epicurustoday.com/02-key-sources/045-cicero-academic-questions-yonge/] We'll likely stick with Yonge primarily, but we'll also refer to the Rackham translation here: Cicero On Nature Of Gods Academica Loeb Rackham : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive [https://archive.org/details/cicero-on-nature-of-gods-academica-loeb-rackham/page/398/mode/2up] https://www.epicureanfriends.com/thread/5173-episode-342-eataq24-were-our-minds-designed-to-be-good-at-pursuing-knowledge-yet/

Episode 341 - Is It True That No One Dies For A Lie?

Welcome to Episode 341 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the most complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. Each week we walk you through the Epicurean texts, and we discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. If you find the Epicurean worldview attractive, we invite you to join us in the study of Epicurus at EpicureanFriends.com, where we discuss this and all of our podcast episodes. This week we are continuing our series reviewing Cicero's "Academic Questions" from an Epicurean perspective, which gives us an overview of the issues that split Plato's Academy and helps us understand Epicurus' position on the same issues. This week will continue in Section 9 [https://epicurustoday.com/02-key-sources/045-cicero-academic-questions-yonge/#viii-1] of Book Two. Our text will come from Cicero - Academic Questions - Yonge [https://epicurustoday.com/02-key-sources/045-cicero-academic-questions-yonge/] We'll likely stick with Yonge primarily, but we'll also refer to the Rackham translation here: Cicero On Nature Of Gods Academica Loeb Rackham : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive [https://archive.org/details/cicero-on-nature-of-gods-academica-loeb-rackham/page/398/mode/2up]

Episode 340 - The Fatal Flaw In Socratic Skepticism

Welcome to Episode 340 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the most complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. Each week we walk you through the Epicurean texts, and we discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. If you find the Epicurean worldview attractive, we invite you to join us in the study of Epicurus at EpicureanFriends.com, where we discuss this and all of our podcast episodes. This week we are continuing our series reviewing Cicero's "Academic Questions" from an Epicurean perspective, which gives us an overview of the issues that split Plato's Academy and helps us understand Epicurus' position on the same issues. This week will continue in Section 9 [https://epicurustoday.com/02-key-sources/045-cicero-academic-questions-yonge/#viii-1] of Book Two. Our text will come from Cicero - Academic Questions - Yonge [https://epicurustoday.com/02-key-sources/045-cicero-academic-questions-yonge/] We'll likely stick with Yonge primarily, but we'll also refer to the Rackham translation here: Cicero On Nature Of Gods Academica Loeb Rackham : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive [https://archive.org/details/cicero-on-nature-of-gods-academica-loeb-rackham/page/398/mode/2up]

Episode 339 - Stoic Views of Knowledge And The Emperor's New Clothes

Welcome to Episode 339 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the most complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. Each week we walk you through the Epicurean texts, and we discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. If you find the Epicurean worldview attractive, we invite you to join us in the study of Epicurus at EpicureanFriends.com, where we discuss this and all of our podcast episodes. This week we are continuing our series reviewing Cicero's "Academic Questions" from an Epicurean perspective, which gives us an overview of the issues that split Plato's Academy and helps us understand Epicurus' position on the same issues. This week will continue in Section 8 [https://epicurustoday.com/02-key-sources/045-cicero-academic-questions-yonge/#viii-1] of Book Two. Our text will come from Cicero - Academic Questions - Yonge [https://epicurustoday.com/02-key-sources/045-cicero-academic-questions-yonge/] We'll likely stick with Yonge primarily, but we'll also refer to the Rackham translation here: Cicero On Nature Of Gods Academica Loeb Rackham : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive [https://archive.org/details/cicero-on-nature-of-gods-academica-loeb-rackham/page/398/mode/2up] https://www.epicureanfriends.com/thread/5138-episode-339-eataq21-stoic-views-of-knowledge-and-the-emperor-s-new-clothes/

Episode 338 - Are Knowledge And Wisdom Available Only To Gods?

Welcome to Episode 338 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the most complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. Each week we walk you through the Epicurean texts, and we discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. If you find the Epicurean worldview attractive, we invite you to join us in the study of Epicurus at EpicureanFriends.com, where we discuss this and all of our podcast episodes.This week we start are continuing our series reviewing Cicero's "Academic Questions" from an Epicurean perspective, which gives us an overview of the issues that split Plato's Academy and helps us understand Epicurus' position on the same issues. This week will continue toward completion of Section 8 of Book 2 [https://epicurustoday.com/02-key-sources/045-cicero-academic-questions-yonge/#viii-1]Our text will come from Cicero - Academic Questions - Yonge [https://epicurustoday.com/02-keysources/045-cicero-academic-questions-yonge/] We'll likely stick with Yonge primarily, but we'll also refer to the Rackham translation here: * Cicero On Nature Of Gods Academica Loeb Rackham : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive [https://archive.org/details/cicero-on-nature-of-gods-academica-loeb-rackham/page/398/mode/2up] https://www.epicureanfriends.com/thread/5128-episode-338-eataq20-are-knowledge-and-wisdom-available-only-to-gods/