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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Suggestions for Free PDF Greek - English Dictionary? 1
- Cassius
February 28, 2019 at 9:10 AM
- Cassius
February 28, 2019 at 11:35 AM
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We're in the Bible!! 6
- Hiram
March 4, 2019 at 7:20 PM
- Hiram
March 14, 2019 at 2:53 PM
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Hygge and the Landscape of Pleasure: a Book Review 1
- Hiram
March 15, 2019 at 10:55 AM
- Hiram
March 15, 2019 at 5:52 PM
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"Filling The Gas Tank of Life"
- Cassius
March 21, 2019 at 2:41 PM
- Cassius
March 21, 2019 at 2:41 PM
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"Lucretius Was Right" Graphic
- Cassius
March 24, 2019 at 1:24 PM
- Cassius
March 24, 2019 at 1:24 PM
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How to live a Good Life Featured in PW 5
- Hiram
March 26, 2019 at 8:24 AM
- Hiram
January 7, 2020 at 11:32 AM
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Why Do We Come Here To Talk With Each Other? 1
- Cassius
March 26, 2019 at 6:12 PM
- Cassius
March 27, 2019 at 7:45 AM
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Epicurean Self-Sufficiency - Video Of A Short Address from the 2013 Promethea Conference in Greece - By George Kaplanis
- Cassius
March 27, 2019 at 8:32 AM
- Cassius
March 27, 2019 at 8:32 AM
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"Natural and Necessary" As A Sliding Scale 3
- Cassius
March 29, 2019 at 7:14 AM
- Cassius
March 29, 2019 at 3:04 PM
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Epicurean Thoughts On Taking Action
- Cassius
March 29, 2019 at 9:51 AM
- Cassius
March 29, 2019 at 9:51 AM
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Epicureanism – Busts of Venus, Athena, Epicurus 6
- Hiram
March 30, 2019 at 10:10 AM
- Hiram
March 31, 2019 at 3:23 PM
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What Did Epicurus Include in "Pleasure?" 2
- Cassius
March 31, 2019 at 10:01 AM
- Cassius
March 31, 2019 at 10:32 PM
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Please, no dogmatism, no absolute truths 16
- michelepinto
March 31, 2019 at 3:55 PM
- michelepinto
April 24, 2019 at 8:38 PM
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In Honor Of The Day! 2
- Cassius
April 1, 2019 at 7:14 AM
- Cassius
April 1, 2019 at 7:36 AM
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Book review of The Millionaire Fastlane by
- Hiram
April 1, 2019 at 11:38 AM
- Hiram
April 1, 2019 at 11:38 AM
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The Ethical Implications Of Epicurus' Theology 5
- Hiram
April 2, 2019 at 10:21 AM
- Hiram
April 23, 2019 at 9:54 AM
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If Anyone Is Working On A Research Or Writing Post Please Be Sure To Post And Ask For Help
- Cassius
April 2, 2019 at 5:18 PM
- Cassius
April 2, 2019 at 5:18 PM
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Newly Found Statue of the Husband of the Epicurean Pompeia Plotina 1
- Cassius
April 2, 2019 at 5:50 PM
- Cassius
April 2, 2019 at 5:51 PM
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Are the Gods Totally Painless? Does Calling Us To "Continuous Pleasure" Mean Totally Painless? 21
- Cassius
April 2, 2019 at 8:24 PM
- Cassius
April 5, 2019 at 4:04 PM
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Warning (Disturbing Content) | Epicurean Economics: Better Informed Purchases & Investments
- Cassius
April 3, 2019 at 1:41 PM
- Cassius
April 3, 2019 at 1:41 PM
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Anandamide: the molecule of pleasure, 4
- Hiram
April 3, 2019 at 3:08 PM
- Hiram
April 5, 2019 at 10:51 AM
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Epicurus, Ionia and India. 5
- Rivelle
April 6, 2019 at 1:02 AM
- Rivelle
April 7, 2019 at 5:27 AM
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AudioBooks to Drive By
- Cassius
April 6, 2019 at 3:13 PM
- Cassius
April 6, 2019 at 3:13 PM
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A little lesson on death in the supermarket... 3
- bradley.whitley
April 7, 2019 at 7:15 PM
- bradley.whitley
April 7, 2019 at 8:22 PM
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Pleasure and Reality 23
- Elayne
April 8, 2019 at 9:57 AM
- Elayne
April 14, 2019 at 7:33 AM
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Will Epicurus and Pirrone save Europe? 4
- michelepinto
April 9, 2019 at 3:48 AM
- michelepinto
April 9, 2019 at 5:45 AM
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Epicurean Cites on The Issue of Impossibiity of Pure Happiness While Accepting Religious Fables
- Cassius
April 9, 2019 at 2:46 PM
- Cassius
April 9, 2019 at 2:46 PM
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Starting a Garden in the digital era
- Hiram
April 13, 2019 at 4:40 PM
- Hiram
April 13, 2019 at 4:40 PM
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Epicurus: Against the Use of Empty Words 17
- Hiram
April 14, 2019 at 4:55 PM
- Hiram
April 16, 2019 at 7:00 PM
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The Notre Dame Fire 78
- Cassius
April 15, 2019 at 4:57 PM
- Cassius
October 28, 2019 at 10:17 PM
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