Welcome to Episode 31 of the Lucretius Today podcast.  This week our only available panelists are Cassius and Martin, so rather than continue to a new section of text we'll go back and cover the topics from last week in more detail.  The issue we spend the most time on is essentially the example of Polyaenus, which touches on the issue of the relationship between science and philosophy, and the question of whether a person can live a happy life without philosophy.

Welcome to Episode 31 of the Lucretius Today podcast. This week our only available panelists are Cassius and Martin, so rather than continue to a new section of text we'll go back and cover the topics from last week in more detail. The issue we spend the most time on is essentially the example of Polyaenus, which touches on the issue of the relationship between science and philosophy, and the question of whether a person can live a happy life without philosophy.

Episode 031 - Continuation of Episode 30 And Discussion of the Polyaenus Example

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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