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Top Ten Recognizable Epicurean "Slogans" 6
- Cassius
March 25, 2024 at 9:19 AM
- Cassius
April 12, 2024 at 9:33 AM
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Can You Provide A Simplified Outline of The Most Important Principles Of The Epicurean System?
- Cassius
December 9, 2018 at 10:54 AM
- Cassius
December 9, 2018 at 10:54 AM
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Maximum pleasure as absence of all pain: a philosophical question concerning neuroscientific and Epicurean outlook toward the feeling of pleasure 10
- shahabgh66
January 20, 2024 at 4:26 AM
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January 26, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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A Draft of A Pie Chart Presentation of Basic Concepts In Epicurean Pleasure 7
- Cassius
November 30, 2023 at 2:21 PM
- Cassius
December 2, 2023 at 3:27 PM
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Cassius' Latest Single Page Outline Of Epicurean Philosophy 11
- Cassius
December 6, 2023 at 11:09 AM
- Cassius
December 10, 2023 at 5:41 PM
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Practical Pleasure-Pain Perspectives: How Different is 99% Pleasure From 100% Pleasure? 13
- Cassius
October 5, 2023 at 12:06 PM
- Cassius
October 6, 2023 at 10:24 AM
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New Users Please Read Here First
- Cassius
November 22, 2019 at 2:20 PM
- Cassius
November 22, 2019 at 2:20 PM
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Is All "Ataraxia" Equal? 30
- Cassius
November 18, 2023 at 7:47 PM
- Cassius
February 19, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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"Absence Of Pain Is Pleasure" - How Would You Articulate That To Someone? 30
- Eoghan Gardiner
November 15, 2023 at 9:32 AM
- Eoghan Gardiner
December 2, 2023 at 12:47 PM
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So You Want To Learn Ancient Greek Or Latin? 47
- burninglights
November 17, 2023 at 8:20 PM
- burninglights
March 17, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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"Setting Before the Eyes" 49
- Don
January 28, 2022 at 6:15 PM
- Don
February 3, 2022 at 10:32 PM
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Compassion in Epicurean Philosophy 42
- Joshua
February 7, 2022 at 12:20 AM
- Joshua
February 9, 2022 at 9:55 PM
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Would You Rather Live For A Week As (1) Epicurus During the Last Week of His Life or (2) An Anonymous Shepherd Laying In The Grass In The Summertime With No Pain At All? 104
- Cassius
September 6, 2023 at 2:36 PM
- Cassius
October 22, 2023 at 3:28 PM
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Opportunities for Activism And Collaboration Here At EpicureanFriends.com 33
- Cassius
April 2, 2020 at 9:59 AM
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August 25, 2021 at 12:16 AM
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An Epicurean Understanding of Pleasure 96
- Kalosyni
October 4, 2021 at 1:39 PM
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October 10, 2021 at 4:36 PM
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Major Herculaneum Scroll News: "In the closing section of the text our author takes a parting shot at his adversaries, who 'have nothing to say about pleasure, either in general or in particular, when it is a question of definition.'” 12
- Cassius
February 5, 2024 at 12:08 PM
- Cassius
March 16, 2024 at 7:39 PM
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Wednesday Night Zoom / Epicurea Discussion (Wed, May 1st 2024, 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm) 1
- Cassius
May 1, 2024 at 9:34 AM
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May 1, 2024 at 9:36 AM
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Temporary Forum Outage - Now Resolved If You Are Reading This!
- Cassius
November 22, 2023 at 11:37 AM
- Cassius
November 22, 2023 at 11:37 AM
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Modern Online Public Domain Expanded Usener Collection
- Cassius
March 24, 2024 at 5:57 AM
- Cassius
March 24, 2024 at 5:57 AM
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Pliny the Elder's Villa Found?
- kochiekoch
February 5, 2024 at 4:37 PM
- kochiekoch
February 5, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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Explaining Perspectives - Chart Of Whole Organism vs Discrete Feelings
- Cassius
October 17, 2023 at 8:52 AM
- Cassius
October 17, 2023 at 8:52 AM
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Simple Video On Epicurus and His Atomism
- Cassius
March 24, 2024 at 8:40 AM
- Cassius
March 24, 2024 at 8:40 AM
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Take It Easy (CBS Sunday Morning) 1
- Don
April 28, 2024 at 5:18 PM
- Don
April 29, 2024 at 8:13 AM
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Elli - On Euphronius
- Cassius
March 28, 2024 at 7:01 PM
- Cassius
March 28, 2024 at 7:01 PM
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Non-reversing mirror
- Bryan
March 12, 2024 at 9:57 PM
- Bryan
March 12, 2024 at 9:57 PM
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For all you Celtic Epicureans! 1
- Don
January 13, 2024 at 5:41 PM
- Don
January 13, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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Idola Fori
- DavidN
February 21, 2024 at 7:12 AM
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February 21, 2024 at 7:12 AM
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"All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation"
- Cassius
September 2, 2023 at 12:29 PM
- Cassius
September 2, 2023 at 12:29 PM
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Biography Entries
- Cassius
November 20, 2023 at 3:29 PM
- Cassius
November 20, 2023 at 3:29 PM
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A Worthwhile Podcast Episode Entitled: " Hume, The Epicureans, And the Origins of Liberalism" 1
- Cassius
April 29, 2024 at 2:30 PM
- Cassius
May 1, 2024 at 10:46 AM
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Active Research Projects Page
- Cassius
January 15, 2024 at 6:20 PM
- Cassius
January 15, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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Entertaining Example of Epicurus' Reasons for Rejecting Divination (Nick Of Time - A Short Story Featuring William Shatner)
- Cassius
January 9, 2024 at 8:23 PM
- Cassius
January 9, 2024 at 8:23 PM
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Elli Quote From Pericles: "And the pleasure which we daily feel in all these things helps us to banish any sorrow."
- Cassius
May 28, 2023 at 9:14 AM
- Cassius
May 28, 2023 at 9:14 AM
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Nate's "First Generation Epicureans" Research
- Cassius
February 27, 2024 at 4:57 PM
- Cassius
February 27, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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Place to Discuss Epicurean Organizational Theory and Practice
- Cassius
February 4, 2024 at 8:44 AM
- Cassius
February 4, 2024 at 8:44 AM
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What Epicurus Might Say In Response To Common Cliches
- Kalosyni
April 12, 2024 at 3:47 PM
- Kalosyni
April 12, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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The Sliver of the New Moon at Nightfall (Tue, Jul 18th 2023, 8:00 am-8:00 pm)
- Joshua
July 16, 2023 at 7:32 PM
- Joshua
July 16, 2023 at 7:32 PM
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Herculaneum / Philodemus Thoughts From Elli
- Cassius
May 25, 2023 at 9:03 AM
- Cassius
May 25, 2023 at 9:03 AM
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Epicurean Philosophical Tenets That We Can Know With Certainty 1
- Kalosyni
February 22, 2024 at 11:05 AM
- Kalosyni
February 22, 2024 at 1:30 PM
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The Illusory Walls of Safety
- Twentier
August 21, 2023 at 3:03 PM
- Twentier
August 21, 2023 at 3:03 PM
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Human saliva harming snakes 2
- Bryan
January 17, 2024 at 4:28 PM
- Bryan
January 17, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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We're Are Not Just Our Brains! 1
- Don
January 30, 2024 at 9:53 PM
- Don
January 30, 2024 at 11:36 PM
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The Passing of Prof. Daniel Dennett 2
- Joshua
April 19, 2024 at 6:20 PM
- Joshua
April 25, 2024 at 8:13 AM
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Nate's Latest Graphical Calendar of Epicurus' Birthday
- Cassius
May 29, 2023 at 2:15 PM
- Cassius
May 29, 2023 at 2:15 PM
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Iphigenia (1977 Movie) 1
- Cassius
November 19, 2023 at 4:40 PM
- Cassius
November 19, 2023 at 4:52 PM
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