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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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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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Another Tetrapharmakos Video Discussion 6
- Cassius
May 6, 2024 at 9:43 AM
- Cassius
May 9, 2024 at 8:29 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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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
- shahabgh66
January 26, 2024 at 7:24 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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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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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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"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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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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Opportunities for Activism And Collaboration Here At EpicureanFriends.com 33
- Cassius
April 2, 2020 at 9:59 AM
- Cassius
August 25, 2021 at 12:16 AM
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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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"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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So You Want To Learn Ancient Greek Or Latin? 50
- burninglights
November 17, 2023 at 8:20 PM
- burninglights
May 10, 2024 at 8:05 AM
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An Epicurean Understanding of Pleasure 96
- Kalosyni
October 4, 2021 at 1:39 PM
- Kalosyni
October 10, 2021 at 4:36 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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Elena Nicoli - An Excellent Presentation On Epicurean Pleasure 11
- Cassius
April 16, 2018 at 4:18 PM
- Cassius
May 7, 2018 at 10:50 AM
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Evaluating "In Defense of Being Average" 11
- Cassius
June 14, 2019 at 8:57 AM
- Cassius
June 14, 2019 at 7:19 PM
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Remember To Join Us For A Skype Call This Sunday 9/1 If You Can! 11
- Cassius
August 30, 2019 at 4:38 PM
- Cassius
September 22, 2019 at 4:22 PM
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The (belated) Decline of Christianity in the United States 11
- Joshua
October 19, 2019 at 8:35 PM
- Joshua
October 20, 2019 at 9:37 AM
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"The Rise and Fall of Alexandria", Howard Reid and Justin Pollard 11
- Joshua
November 19, 2020 at 7:26 PM
- Joshua
December 1, 2020 at 6:30 PM
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Epicureanusm and Romantic Love 11
- Philliped1
June 27, 2022 at 6:52 PM
- Philliped1
July 18, 2022 at 4:42 PM
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Diogenes of Oinoanda And the Timing of Causes 11
- Cassius
October 11, 2022 at 10:51 PM
- Cassius
October 12, 2022 at 2:31 PM
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The Epicurean Alternative to "Cogito Ergo Sum" Would Be? 11
- Cassius
February 2, 2023 at 10:36 AM
- Cassius
February 6, 2023 at 6:28 PM
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The Legendary Predecessor of Epicurus 11
- Cyrano
January 23, 2024 at 8:53 PM
- Cyrano
February 1, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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The Advice of Marcus The Golden 12
- Cassius
June 10, 2019 at 7:35 AM
- Cassius
June 13, 2019 at 11:07 AM
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Question On Forum Operation 12
- Cassius
June 14, 2019 at 9:10 AM
- Cassius
June 17, 2019 at 5:49 AM
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EPICUREANISM: Ancient Answers to Modern Questions" | Marc Nelson 12
- Hiram
October 8, 2019 at 7:39 AM
- Hiram
October 11, 2019 at 10:39 AM
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Thanksgiving Holiday in The USA - 2019 12
- Cassius
November 25, 2019 at 8:41 PM
- Cassius
November 26, 2019 at 5:01 PM
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Natural versus Unnatural 12
- Matt
December 30, 2020 at 8:54 AM
- Matt
January 10, 2021 at 12:33 PM
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Taking The Temperature Of A Six Year Old Forum 12
- Cassius
June 9, 2021 at 11:19 AM
- Cassius
June 25, 2021 at 8:48 AM
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Nate's Compilation of Alternative Translations of the Principal Doctrines 12
- Cassius
October 8, 2021 at 1:28 PM
- Cassius
November 25, 2021 at 9:19 AM
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Compatibility of Epicureanism and Existential Therapy 12
- Kalosyni
August 30, 2022 at 8:57 AM
- Kalosyni
July 29, 2023 at 9:50 AM
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Readings From Lucretius In Latin 12
- Cassius
June 27, 2023 at 7:42 AM
- Cassius
June 29, 2023 at 11:12 AM
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"The Philosophical Mind" enters the skull of Epicurus 12
- EricR
July 19, 2023 at 9:05 AM
- EricR
July 27, 2023 at 11:12 AM
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Why Does Stoicism Seem to Be More Popular Than Epicureanism, Especially In England? 13
- Cassius
May 11, 2019 at 11:28 AM
- Cassius
October 3, 2020 at 9:41 PM
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My latest author blog on Goodreads: Epicurean Economics and a Few Updates 13
- Hiram
May 23, 2019 at 10:54 AM
- Hiram
May 30, 2019 at 8:57 PM
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My Plans For 2021 13
- Cassius
January 5, 2021 at 2:18 PM
- Cassius
March 17, 2021 at 10:13 AM
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Epicurus' Favorite Insults 13
- Cassius
April 29, 2021 at 1:15 PM
- Cassius
May 28, 2022 at 7:55 AM
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Greenblatt and his Detractors 13
- Joshua
February 1, 2022 at 2:08 PM
- Joshua
February 3, 2022 at 11:47 AM
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Epicurean Change 13
- Matt
April 8, 2022 at 8:39 AM
- Matt
April 9, 2022 at 3:08 PM
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Probably One Of The Worst Ideas/Questions I Have Ever Posed: "Is There Any Community-Building Opportunity in The On-Line Game Zero AD?" 13
- Cassius
October 27, 2022 at 7:26 PM
- Cassius
October 28, 2022 at 12:44 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving Thread 13
- Cassius
November 22, 2022 at 4:32 AM
- Cassius
November 23, 2022 at 6:34 PM
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Epicurus And Pleasure As The Awareness Of Smooth Motion 13
- Cassius
May 10, 2023 at 9:18 AM
- Cassius
February 6, 2024 at 12:24 PM
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Cyreniacism Gone Wrong - "Hegesias the Death Persuader" 13
- Cassius
May 18, 2023 at 7:48 AM
- Cassius
May 22, 2023 at 2:07 AM
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How would you respond to an existentialist who says "You Epicureans have chosen pleasure as your meaning but it's not universal" do Epicureans hold that pleasure is the universal Good? 13
- Eoghan Gardiner
June 13, 2023 at 9:13 AM
- Eoghan Gardiner
June 15, 2023 at 12:36 AM
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