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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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Top Ten Recognizable Epicurean "Slogans" 6
- Cassius
March 25, 2024 at 9:19 AM
- Cassius
April 12, 2024 at 9:33 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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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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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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Musings on A Quick Statement of "What It Means to Be An Epicurean" 9
- Cassius
July 13, 2020 at 10:57 PM
- Cassius
July 16, 2020 at 4:34 PM
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Elayne Reviews Alan Reye's Editorial on Thomas Jefferson 2
- Cassius
October 11, 2020 at 3:27 PM
- Cassius
August 7, 2021 at 4:17 PM
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David Konstan - Life worthy of the Gods 3
- timrobbe
October 24, 2020 at 5:28 AM
- timrobbe
October 24, 2020 at 8:18 AM
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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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"The Rise and Fall of Alexandria", Howard Reid and Justin Pollard 11
- Joshua
November 19, 2020 at 7:26 PM
- Joshua
December 1, 2020 at 6:30 PM
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Is Romantic Love a Vainglory 6
- Bartleby
November 29, 2020 at 12:01 PM
- Bartleby
November 29, 2020 at 8:15 PM
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Reflections on The End-Of-Year Holidays 3
- Cassius
January 2, 2021 at 4:26 PM
- Cassius
January 3, 2021 at 7:10 AM
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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
- Cassius
January 6, 2021 at 10:27 AM
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Thoughts For An Online Discussion Format - Preparing An Outline in Real Time 3
- Cassius
February 5, 2021 at 9:23 AM
- Cassius
February 5, 2021 at 4:09 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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Swerve some luck my way. 1
- Matthaios
February 21, 2021 at 7:57 PM
- Matthaios
February 22, 2021 at 5:52 AM
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Epicurean Food Trivia - Garum? 9
- Cassius
February 23, 2021 at 7:03 AM
- Cassius
January 10, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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Twitter Users? 6
- A_Gardner
February 25, 2021 at 12:35 PM
- A_Gardner
February 26, 2021 at 1:56 PM
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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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⟐ as the symbol of the philosophy of Epicurus 9
- michelepinto
March 18, 2021 at 11:59 AM
- michelepinto
March 26, 2021 at 9:14 AM
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Thanks to Nate For The Recent Meme Additions 7
- Cassius
April 25, 2021 at 7:07 AM
- Cassius
April 26, 2021 at 5:09 PM
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Nate's "Back of the Book" Graphic 5
- Cassius
May 13, 2021 at 9:40 AM
- Cassius
May 13, 2021 at 9:09 PM
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HISTORICAL REFERENCES TO "PEACE AND SAFETY" – ΕΙΡΗΝΗ ΚΑΙ ΑΣΦΑΛΕΙΑ 10
- Twentier
May 28, 2021 at 3:42 PM
- Twentier
May 29, 2021 at 11:29 AM
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John Adams and the "Ineffable Nonsense of Epicurus" 2
- Joshua
May 29, 2021 at 11:08 PM
- Joshua
May 30, 2021 at 11:04 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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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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Claude Adrienne Helvetius 5
- Cassius
July 21, 2021 at 12:26 PM
- Cassius
July 21, 2021 at 8:01 PM
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A psychologist and a functional medicine practitioner discuss happiness, eudaimonia, wellness, free will and more 10
- Godfrey
August 13, 2021 at 1:23 AM
- Godfrey
December 30, 2023 at 6:16 PM
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Two Musical Treats - Don, and the Epicureans 8
- Cassius
August 14, 2021 at 6:36 AM
- Cassius
August 15, 2021 at 11:52 AM
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Best Recent Version of Diogenes Laertius? 32
- Cassius
August 29, 2021 at 7:52 PM
- Cassius
September 6, 2021 at 9:45 AM
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Fun with Ambigrams 3
- Joshua
October 3, 2021 at 12:45 PM
- Joshua
October 3, 2021 at 1:24 PM
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Finding Cultural / Artistic / Musical Variations on Four Key Epicurean Themes 7
- Cassius
October 20, 2021 at 8:55 AM
- Cassius
October 20, 2021 at 7:17 PM
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Multiple Components Comprise the Epicurean Life 30
- Kalosyni
October 21, 2021 at 7:59 PM
- Kalosyni
October 23, 2021 at 1:53 PM
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Meme Creativity Requested! 4
- Cassius
October 22, 2021 at 1:15 PM
- Cassius
October 22, 2021 at 5:01 PM
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"satisfactory to the epicurean" 2
- Don
October 23, 2021 at 6:56 AM
- Don
October 23, 2021 at 3:36 PM
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