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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
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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
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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
- Cassius
May 6, 2024 at 9:43 AM
- Cassius
May 6, 2024 at 9:43 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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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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Metrodorus’ Epistle to Timocrates 3
- Hiram
July 11, 2019 at 4:14 PM
- Hiram
July 11, 2019 at 5:06 PM
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Metaphorically Picturing Epicurean Philosophy 31
- Cassius
January 10, 2023 at 8:32 AM
- Cassius
January 12, 2023 at 1:27 PM
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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
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December 13, 2023 at 10:19 PM
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Memorial: Amrinder Singh's Birthday (Mon, Dec 24th 2018, 8:00 am-8:00 pm)
- Cassius
January 31, 2019 at 11:17 AM
- Cassius
January 31, 2019 at 11:17 AM
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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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Meeting the Epicurean challenge: a reply to Christensen 5
- Hiram
February 25, 2019 at 7:26 AM
- Hiram
February 28, 2019 at 9:54 AM
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Maza Experiment - Successes? and Failures! 7
- Don
September 12, 2022 at 5:06 PM
- Don
September 18, 2022 at 9:26 AM
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Maximus of Tyre, Socrates and Epicurus 1
- Godfrey
November 22, 2020 at 4:12 PM
- Godfrey
November 22, 2020 at 6:05 PM
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Martin Gives Us A Great Example of Epicurean "Avoidance of Pain" 4
- Cassius
June 16, 2019 at 4:22 PM
- Cassius
June 17, 2019 at 8:10 AM
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Martial, Ode on Mount Vesuvius 5
- Joshua
August 8, 2021 at 4:53 PM
- Joshua
August 8, 2021 at 10:14 PM
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Marshal de Saint Evremond on Epicurus 8
- Cassius
December 10, 2018 at 10:59 AM
- Cassius
December 17, 2018 at 8:31 AM
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Marcus Encolpus' Tomb Inscription 14
- Cassius
July 6, 2023 at 1:15 PM
- Cassius
July 7, 2023 at 9:11 PM
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Managing Expectations In The Study of Epicurus 28
- Cassius
May 8, 2020 at 10:36 AM
- Cassius
May 13, 2020 at 8:45 PM
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Major Observations and Conclusions of Epicurean Philosophy - An Outline
- Cassius
September 14, 2015 at 9:13 PM
- Cassius
September 14, 2015 at 9:13 PM
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Major Controversies In Understanding Epicurean Philosophy
- Cassius
December 11, 2018 at 2:25 AM
- Cassius
December 11, 2018 at 2:25 AM
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Major (In the Sense of Major Publication) Review of Emily Austin's "Living for Pleasure" 26
- Cassius
January 26, 2023 at 7:45 AM
- Cassius
March 12, 2023 at 4:24 PM
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Lucy Hutchinson / Puritans / Cromwell 4
- Cassius
September 3, 2023 at 7:51 AM
- Cassius
January 12, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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Lucretius commentary in LATIN! 1
- Don
September 16, 2022 at 8:02 AM
- Don
September 16, 2022 at 10:12 AM
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Lucretius Book Study Group (SASA) 6
- Don
May 12, 2023 at 8:59 AM
- Don
May 13, 2023 at 8:23 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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Living the Epicurean Philosophy
- Kalosyni
January 3, 2023 at 2:56 PM
- Kalosyni
January 3, 2023 at 2:56 PM
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Live to 120? I’d rather go for quality not quantity of life… 3
- Don
March 17, 2024 at 1:12 PM
- Don
March 17, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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List of Personal Websites of Regular EpicureanFriends Participants
- Cassius
April 5, 2021 at 8:23 AM
- Cassius
April 5, 2021 at 8:23 AM
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Linguistic Connection Between "Hedone" and "Eden" ? 1
- Cassius
June 26, 2019 at 8:19 AM
- Cassius
June 26, 2019 at 8:20 AM
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Life is Short - Do Stuff that ??? "matters" ??? 2
- Cassius
May 14, 2019 at 1:30 PM
- Cassius
May 15, 2019 at 6:34 AM
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Let's Plan a Recorded Discussion on "Hard Topics In Epicurean Philosophy" or "Why Should I Care About XXX In Epicurean Philosophy" 2
- Cassius
September 1, 2018 at 8:05 PM
- Cassius
September 3, 2018 at 9:22 AM
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Let's Make a List of 1) Major Causes of the Decline of Epicurean Philosophy after Lucretius and 2) The Obstacles to its Revival Through Today 21
- Kalosyni
August 20, 2023 at 1:02 PM
- Kalosyni
August 25, 2023 at 2:20 PM
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Let's Bring Back de Bergerac 3
- Cyrano
February 2, 2024 at 5:22 PM
- Cyrano
February 3, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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LaMettrie, Anticipations, and Epicurean Thought
- Cassius
March 8, 2023 at 9:42 AM
- Cassius
March 8, 2023 at 9:42 AM
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