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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Another Tetrapharmakos Video Discussion 2
- Cassius
May 6, 2024 at 9:43 AM
- Cassius
May 7, 2024 at 5:41 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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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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"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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"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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Your Regular Reminder That Epicurean Philosophy Is About A Lot More Than Ice Cream And Cookies
- Cassius
May 8, 2019 at 8:48 AM
- Cassius
May 8, 2019 at 8:48 AM
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You Only Live Once
- Cassius
October 6, 2018 at 10:48 AM
- Cassius
October 6, 2018 at 10:48 AM
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You may think that I am crazy to consider Epicurus to be a god...
- Cassius
September 11, 2019 at 8:24 AM
- Cassius
September 11, 2019 at 8:24 AM
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You Have Been Deceived!
- Cassius
February 18, 2017 at 3:46 PM
- Cassius
February 18, 2017 at 3:46 PM
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You Have Been Deceived (Video) 6
- Matt
December 29, 2021 at 8:04 PM
- Matt
December 30, 2021 at 7:32 AM
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Year-End Possibilities - A Friendly "Debate" Show? 3
- Cassius
October 29, 2020 at 7:23 PM
- Cassius
October 29, 2020 at 10:05 PM
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Year Calculations 1
- Cassius
September 4, 2023 at 8:09 AM
- Cassius
September 4, 2023 at 8:21 AM
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Yahweh or Zeus? by John Heath 2
- Joshua
May 11, 2020 at 1:56 PM
- Joshua
May 11, 2020 at 4:04 PM
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Would An Epicurean Hook Himself Up To An "Experience Machine" or a "Pleasure Machine" If Possible? 27
- Cassius
March 23, 2020 at 2:05 AM
- Cassius
January 8, 2022 at 4:23 PM
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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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Why was Epicurus condemned to the sixth circle of hell in Dante's Divine Comedy? 3
- Hiram
January 7, 2019 at 10:55 AM
- Hiram
January 7, 2019 at 11:51 AM
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Why Parrhesia is Necessary 5
- Matt
December 29, 2021 at 2:06 PM
- Matt
January 7, 2022 at 6:53 AM
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Why I hate Pantheism 6
- Matt
December 27, 2021 at 3:26 PM
- Matt
December 27, 2021 at 4:40 PM
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Why Epicurean ideas suit the challenges of modern secular life 5
- Hiram
July 19, 2019 at 11:44 AM
- Hiram
July 24, 2019 at 9:48 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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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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Who to believe? 34
- ThinkingCat
May 27, 2023 at 10:32 AM
- ThinkingCat
June 8, 2023 at 5:10 PM
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Who are your Persians? 8
- Matt
February 5, 2019 at 10:20 AM
- Matt
February 22, 2019 at 3:19 PM
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What Would You Take To Cease To Be An Epicurean? 1
- Cassius
October 1, 2019 at 9:41 AM
- Cassius
October 1, 2019 at 11:15 AM
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What Would Epicurus Think of the Big Bang? 35
- Cyrano
January 13, 2024 at 6:19 PM
- Cyrano
January 17, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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What was the geographical reach of Ancient Epicurean thought? 8
- Matt
February 9, 2019 at 5:30 PM
- Matt
February 10, 2019 at 12:20 PM
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What In Your Opinion Are the Most Essential Characteristics Of "Being An Epicurean" (According to Epicurus)? 16
- Cassius
February 15, 2021 at 10:24 AM
- Cassius
February 16, 2021 at 1:21 PM
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What holds me back from embracing EP 29
- EricR
March 1, 2022 at 11:03 AM
- EricR
July 20, 2022 at 8:09 PM
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What Epicurus Offers To The Modern World As Of April, 2024? 35
- Cassius
April 24, 2024 at 1:29 PM
- Cassius
April 30, 2024 at 7:05 PM
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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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What does a government based on Epicureanism look like? 2
- Hiram
January 9, 2019 at 9:35 AM
- Hiram
February 24, 2019 at 4:36 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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What Are The Possible Reasons (And Of These, The Most Likely) Why The List of 40 Principal Doctrines Does Not Feature A Statement Explicitly Stating Pleasure To Be The Goal of Life? 39
- Cassius
February 13, 2023 at 6:19 AM
- Cassius
February 14, 2023 at 3:15 PM
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Welcome to the EpicureanFriends.com Forum
- Cassius
April 29, 2015 at 3:55 PM
- Cassius
April 29, 2015 at 3:55 PM
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Welcome To EpicureanFriends.com!
- Cassius
June 18, 2017 at 1:04 PM
- Cassius
June 18, 2017 at 1:04 PM
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