Epicurus is one of the thinkers whose works I teach fairly often. Most of my Introduction to Philosophy classes will include a day or two devoted to Epicurus and Epicureanism, and in one of the classes I'm teaching next semester, Philosophy, Mindfulness, and Life, we will be spending about two weeks on the Epicurean tradition.
Quite a while back, I produced a series of lecture videos on Epicurus' main ideas (you can check out the playlist here), and over the last year and a half, I've been taking those shorter lecture videos, converting them to sound files, editing them and fixing the sound (as best as I can), and then producing them as podcast episodes.
They really do double duty. I use them in my academic classes as additional resources for my students. They can download and listen to high-quality, well-informed lectures on the texts and thinkers they are studying, anywhere they'd like to. I also make them available as resources for the general public as well, and listeners do seem to enjoy them and find them useful.
So, here's that set of podcast episodes on Epicurus. All told, they run about 1 hour and 40 minutes, so a person could listen their way through the entire set in the space of a a longish workout or walk, or while traveling.
- Epicurean Practical Reasoning
- Pleasure, Prudence, And Justice
- Mental And Bodily Pleasures
- Moving And Static Pleasures
- Three Types Of Desires
- Two Sources Of Groundless Fears
- Nature And Usefulness Of Justice
- The Value Of Friendship
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