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Episode 219 of the Lucretius Today Podcast is now available. In this episode we continue to address Cicero's attacks on Epicurus' views on pain.
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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Top Ten Recognizable Epicurean "Slogans" 4
- Cassius
March 25, 2024 at 9:19 AM
- Cassius
March 25, 2024 at 4:13 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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A Sense of Guilt Among the Early Greeks? (C. S. Lewis)
- Joshua
August 27, 2023 at 12:29 AM
- Joshua
August 27, 2023 at 12:29 AM
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A Sobering Look at Google Ngrams 4
- Joshua
February 18, 2021 at 10:32 PM
- Joshua
February 19, 2021 at 8:40 AM
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A Special Night in Iowa 1
- Joshua
August 12, 2021 at 9:15 PM
- Joshua
August 12, 2021 at 9:18 PM
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A Teachable Moment with Hurricane Dorian
- Hiram
September 4, 2019 at 11:46 AM
- Hiram
September 4, 2019 at 11:46 AM
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A thought on duty to the whole world, and why virtue must be an instrument to happiness. 9
- smoothiekiwi
January 15, 2022 at 4:38 PM
- smoothiekiwi
January 16, 2022 at 5:03 PM
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A Useful Analogy: The Preflight Checklist 18
- Cassius
September 15, 2019 at 9:14 AM
- Cassius
September 28, 2019 at 4:15 AM
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A Veiled Reference to Epicurus in Robert Heinlein? 2
- Joshua
June 29, 2019 at 12:32 PM
- Joshua
July 1, 2019 at 9:29 AM
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A Welcome Sign From Shahab
- Cassius
October 28, 2020 at 2:13 PM
- Cassius
October 28, 2020 at 2:13 PM
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A Word About Words 4
- Pacatus
December 9, 2022 at 1:13 PM
- Pacatus
December 9, 2022 at 9:23 PM
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A Word To The Wise About Arguments 2
- Cassius
January 13, 2018 at 9:45 PM
- Cassius
January 14, 2018 at 9:14 AM
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A. Le Grand's Divine Epicurus 1
- Don
June 19, 2021 at 6:23 AM
- Don
June 19, 2021 at 7:17 AM
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Access to conversation denied 5
- Godfrey
September 8, 2019 at 5:54 PM
- Godfrey
September 9, 2019 at 1:17 PM
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Active Research Projects Page
- Cassius
January 15, 2024 at 6:20 PM
- Cassius
January 15, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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Addition of the "Lexicon" Feature of the Forum 3
- Cassius
November 1, 2020 at 5:58 AM
- Cassius
November 1, 2020 at 8:35 AM
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Addressing Cicero's Argument That Epicurean Philosophy Cannot Be Spoken In The Senate
- Cassius
June 13, 2022 at 1:48 PM
- Cassius
June 13, 2022 at 1:48 PM
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After Religion and Death, The Third Greatest Threat To Happiness As The Highest Goal of Life 5
- Cassius
December 27, 2018 at 4:33 PM
- Cassius
December 28, 2018 at 10:42 AM
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Against the Physicists / Physicians 23
- Hiram
February 1, 2020 at 3:25 PM
- Hiram
February 13, 2020 at 4:55 PM
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Against the stoics 4
- azbcethananderson
October 3, 2019 at 3:41 PM
- azbcethananderson
October 4, 2019 at 6:50 AM
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Albert Einstein, "Foreword to Lucretius" 16
- Joshua
March 5, 2021 at 7:28 PM
- Joshua
March 14, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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Alciphron, Letters, Letters of the Courtesans: Leontion to Lamia (Fictional Epistle) 8
- Charles
June 9, 2020 at 8:01 PM
- Charles
March 4, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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Alt-tech outreach 36
- Matthaios
February 7, 2021 at 9:22 PM
- Matthaios
April 26, 2021 at 12:19 PM
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Altruism 10
- Dubitator314
May 30, 2021 at 12:28 PM
- Dubitator314
May 31, 2021 at 12:32 AM
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American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) 3
- Godfrey
February 27, 2021 at 4:56 PM
- Godfrey
February 28, 2021 at 7:02 AM
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Amusing Clip of the Day - "Please Stop Posting Epicurus Quotes" 2
- Cassius
August 16, 2019 at 11:41 PM
- Cassius
August 17, 2019 at 7:25 AM
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An Analogy 2
- Joshua
March 9, 2020 at 7:12 PM
- Joshua
March 9, 2020 at 8:29 PM
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An Approach to Reading Philosophy 3
- Elayne
December 31, 2019 at 9:20 AM
- Elayne
December 31, 2019 at 7:16 PM
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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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An Epicurean Instagram 6
- A_Gardner
February 14, 2020 at 2:30 PM
- A_Gardner
February 15, 2020 at 5:09 AM
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An Epicurean Study of Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics 75
- Don
October 7, 2022 at 6:26 PM
- Don
November 9, 2022 at 2:53 PM
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An Example of the Translation Issues We Have To Deal With: Does The Wise Man Cry Out When On The Rack? (Answer: Yes!)
- Cassius
October 28, 2019 at 9:06 AM
- Cassius
October 28, 2019 at 9:06 AM
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