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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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Neuroscience of Happiness and Pleasure -- Morten L. Kringelbach and Kent C. Berridge 2
- Kalosyni
June 27, 2022 at 7:53 PM
- Kalosyni
June 27, 2022 at 8:53 PM
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A List of Life Pleasures 4
- Kalosyni
August 3, 2022 at 11:20 AM
- Kalosyni
August 3, 2022 at 5:44 PM
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Pleasure vs pain - example and thoughts! 10
- ThinkingCat
May 20, 2023 at 4:02 AM
- ThinkingCat
May 21, 2023 at 9:08 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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Mental pleasure/pain more intense and longer lasting than physical pleasure/pain 33
- frank1syl
December 5, 2023 at 11:15 AM
- frank1syl
December 13, 2023 at 10:19 PM
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Encouragement Toward Pleasure at the Holidays -- Share your thoughts and experiences 10
- Kalosyni
December 14, 2022 at 12:50 PM
- Kalosyni
December 25, 2022 at 11:16 PM
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Atlantic article about enjoyment vs. pleasure 47
- Kalosyni
April 7, 2022 at 10:21 AM
- Kalosyni
May 5, 2022 at 2:53 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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