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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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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
- 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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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? 50
- burninglights
November 17, 2023 at 8:20 PM
- burninglights
May 10, 2024 at 8:05 AM
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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
- 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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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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Egypt archaeologists unearth stunning 'Temple of Zeus' dedicated to Greek god 1
- Cassius
May 1, 2022 at 7:11 PM
- Cassius
May 1, 2022 at 7:20 PM
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On Living Unknown While Locating Your School In A High Traffic Area
- Cassius
June 12, 2019 at 1:43 PM
- Cassius
June 12, 2019 at 1:43 PM
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Greek Atomism and subatomic particles. 'Atomos' and 'Ameres' 5
- TauPhi
October 29, 2023 at 11:26 PM
- TauPhi
October 30, 2023 at 11:00 PM
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Jefferson's Concluding Salvo In The Battle Between "Heart" and "Head" 1
- Cassius
September 14, 2022 at 3:03 PM
- Cassius
September 14, 2022 at 6:43 PM
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Living the Epicurean Philosophy
- Kalosyni
January 3, 2023 at 2:56 PM
- Kalosyni
January 3, 2023 at 2:56 PM
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Elli Pensa Video / Reading Letter to Menoeceus 2
- Cassius
June 2, 2023 at 1:00 PM
- Cassius
June 2, 2023 at 1:22 PM
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Happy Twentieth! On the Importance of Healthy Emotions
- Hiram
August 20, 2019 at 12:53 PM
- Hiram
August 20, 2019 at 12:53 PM
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Convincing Demonstrations of the God(s) 1
- Twentier
August 22, 2023 at 2:34 PM
- Twentier
August 23, 2023 at 5:36 AM
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Lucretius AI 4
- sanantoniogarden
January 28, 2024 at 5:50 PM
- sanantoniogarden
January 29, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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Epicurus' On Nature: Books XXV and XXVIII
- Hiram
August 5, 2019 at 2:03 PM
- Hiram
August 5, 2019 at 2:03 PM
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Goethe and Epicurus / Lucretius
- Cassius
September 4, 2021 at 8:23 PM
- Cassius
September 4, 2021 at 8:23 PM
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Eleni Avdoulou wins the award NetoIP 2021 with a thesis about the Papyri of Herculaneum
- Cassius
July 15, 2021 at 12:22 PM
- Cassius
July 15, 2021 at 12:22 PM
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Six Key Assertions of Epicurean Thought
- Cassius
September 30, 2019 at 2:25 PM
- Cassius
September 30, 2019 at 2:25 PM
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International festival of philosophy phil. Cologne 2021 (Thu, Sep 2nd 2021, 8:30 pm-Wed, Sep 8th 2021, 11:00 pm)
- Martin
August 28, 2021 at 5:25 AM
- Martin
August 28, 2021 at 5:25 AM
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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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The "No Need For Nihilism" Proof
- Cassius
October 26, 2021 at 5:07 PM
- Cassius
October 26, 2021 at 5:07 PM
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From Elli: ""And the pleasure which we daily feel in all these things helps us to banish any sorrow." - Pericles the Athenian.
- Cassius
January 6, 2021 at 10:27 AM
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January 6, 2021 at 10:27 AM
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Wanting vs Liking
- Elayne
January 24, 2021 at 9:05 AM
- Elayne
January 24, 2021 at 9:05 AM
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Competencies of Understanding in Epicurean Philosophy 2
- Kalosyni
August 7, 2023 at 9:05 AM
- Kalosyni
August 7, 2023 at 10:49 AM
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Anniversary of the Execution of Giordano Bruno in the Campo de Fiori in Rome (Fri, Feb 17th 2023, 8:00 am-8:00 pm) 1
- Joshua
February 6, 2023 at 12:58 PM
- Joshua
February 6, 2023 at 2:17 PM
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Tips on Forum Usage
- Cassius
July 14, 2019 at 7:48 PM
- Cassius
July 14, 2019 at 7:48 PM
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Epicurus’ On Nature – Books XI-XIV
- Hiram
July 31, 2019 at 10:00 AM
- Hiram
July 31, 2019 at 10:00 AM
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Sports are fun but is exercise really something Epicurus would have lauded? 5
- Peter Konstans
March 14, 2024 at 1:33 PM
- Peter Konstans
March 31, 2024 at 10:51 AM
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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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Christos Yapijakis: "Epicurean Philosophy, Modern Science, and Life" - A Presentation With Question / Answer Session.
- Cassius
November 24, 2018 at 4:55 PM
- Cassius
November 24, 2018 at 4:55 PM
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Starting Point Questions
- Cassius
May 9, 2019 at 11:48 AM
- Cassius
May 9, 2019 at 11:48 AM
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A Place to Start
- Cassius
January 21, 2019 at 4:41 PM
- Cassius
January 21, 2019 at 4:41 PM
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Josh's journal #2 - Vestment and Investment
- Joshua
June 13, 2019 at 7:40 AM
- Joshua
June 13, 2019 at 7:40 AM
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Epicurus "On Nature" - Book 25: On Moral Development
- Hiram
July 8, 2019 at 10:13 AM
- Hiram
July 8, 2019 at 10:13 AM
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Vesuvius Memorial Day
- Cassius
August 24, 2019 at 9:28 AM
- Cassius
August 24, 2019 at 9:28 AM
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