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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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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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"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? 47
- burninglights
November 17, 2023 at 8:20 PM
- burninglights
March 17, 2024 at 7:30 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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My 2024 Resolution: Get A More Accurate Picture of Epicurean Pleasure To The World Rather Than "Tranquility" or "Live Unkown"(Comment on Irish Times Article) 15
- Cassius
January 1, 2024 at 7:03 AM
- Cassius
January 27, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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Fundamental Issues In Hedonism 15
- BrainToBeing
December 10, 2023 at 8:18 AM
- BrainToBeing
December 14, 2023 at 9:52 AM
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Sculptures Damaged at the Vatican 15
- Joshua
October 7, 2022 at 11:08 PM
- Joshua
October 10, 2022 at 2:39 PM
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"For Life Has No Terrors . . . " 15
- Cassius
November 11, 2021 at 8:52 AM
- Cassius
November 14, 2021 at 5:46 AM
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Translation (A poem) 15
- Don
July 29, 2021 at 9:22 AM
- Don
August 5, 2021 at 8:44 PM
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Scheduling of Online Activities As Of January 2020 15
- Cassius
January 20, 2020 at 12:11 PM
- Cassius
January 23, 2020 at 1:15 PM
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Is Self Preservation a Virtue? 15
- Garden Dweller
November 7, 2019 at 8:10 AM
- Garden Dweller
November 8, 2019 at 7:13 PM
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Calculus, Minimalism, Consumerism, Finding the Path 15
- Garden Dweller
October 11, 2019 at 10:28 PM
- Garden Dweller
October 18, 2019 at 11:37 AM
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Epicurean Freedom. Enslavement by culture. The mob. 15
- Harrington Andros
April 19, 2018 at 12:42 PM
- Harrington Andros
May 14, 2018 at 12:11 PM
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The True Scale of Atoms 14
- Don
December 23, 2023 at 10:26 PM
- Don
December 26, 2023 at 12:03 PM
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Renderings of Epicurean Philosophers by Genevra Catalano (2022-2023) 14
- Twentier
November 16, 2023 at 10:30 AM
- Twentier
November 18, 2023 at 5:34 PM
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Marcus Encolpus' Tomb Inscription 14
- Cassius
July 6, 2023 at 1:15 PM
- Cassius
July 7, 2023 at 9:11 PM
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The Nature of Work 14
- isychos
February 20, 2021 at 5:00 AM
- isychos
February 22, 2021 at 12:40 PM
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I Am Firmly Convinced That The Future of Epicurean Philosophy Won't Be Found In The Ivory Tower 14
- Cassius
October 18, 2019 at 7:41 AM
- Cassius
October 18, 2019 at 8:17 PM
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October 15 Birthday of Lucretius and Virgil? 14
- Cassius
October 15, 2019 at 9:32 AM
- Cassius
October 18, 2019 at 9:01 PM
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The Continuing Challenge of Epicureanism - Michael Wilson 14
- Hiram
August 11, 2019 at 12:31 PM
- Hiram
August 12, 2019 at 7:28 AM
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Universal Basic Income 14
- Hiram
February 14, 2019 at 10:23 AM
- Hiram
February 26, 2019 at 10:00 AM
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An Epicurean "Sanity Check" 14
- Cassius
February 2, 2019 at 11:55 PM
- Cassius
February 5, 2019 at 8:20 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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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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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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Happy Thanksgiving Thread 13
- Cassius
November 22, 2022 at 4:32 AM
- Cassius
November 23, 2022 at 6:34 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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Epicurean Change 13
- Matt
April 8, 2022 at 8:39 AM
- Matt
April 9, 2022 at 3:08 PM
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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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Epicurus' Favorite Insults 13
- Cassius
April 29, 2021 at 1:15 PM
- Cassius
May 28, 2022 at 7:55 AM
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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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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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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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"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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