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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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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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Opportunities for Activism And Collaboration Here At EpicureanFriends.com 33
- Cassius
April 2, 2020 at 9:59 AM
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August 25, 2021 at 12:16 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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Compassion in Epicurean Philosophy 42
- Joshua
February 7, 2022 at 12:20 AM
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February 9, 2022 at 9:55 PM
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"Setting Before the Eyes" 49
- Don
January 28, 2022 at 6:15 PM
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February 3, 2022 at 10:32 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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"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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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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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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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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A Draft of A Pie Chart Presentation of Basic Concepts In Epicurean Pleasure 7
- Cassius
November 30, 2023 at 2:21 PM
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December 2, 2023 at 3:27 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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Can You Provide A Simplified Outline of The Most Important Principles Of The Epicurean System?
- Cassius
December 9, 2018 at 10:54 AM
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December 9, 2018 at 10:54 AM
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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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A Word To The Wise About Arguments 2
- Cassius
January 13, 2018 at 9:45 PM
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January 14, 2018 at 9:14 AM
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Happy Twentieth of July: Remembering That Pleasure Has Many Enemies 3
- Cassius
July 19, 2019 at 9:58 PM
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July 20, 2019 at 9:16 AM
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New Review of Emily Austin's "Living For Pleasure" - This Time By An Objectivist 10
- Cassius
May 18, 2023 at 7:20 PM
- Cassius
June 7, 2023 at 9:52 PM
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Rarely read writer DeCasseres on Epicurus' great discovery 8
- EricR
February 27, 2022 at 8:01 AM
- EricR
February 27, 2022 at 4:45 PM
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Somerset Maugham on Epicureanism over one hundred years ago 4
- Jon M
May 23, 2020 at 4:44 PM
- Jon M
May 24, 2020 at 8:41 AM
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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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Is A Fish Dinner A Better Prescription For Pain Than a Treatise of Socrates? 3
- Cassius
April 24, 2019 at 8:56 PM
- Cassius
April 25, 2019 at 8:41 AM
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So, this is what we're up against... 8
- Don
August 8, 2021 at 2:39 PM
- Don
August 13, 2021 at 7:21 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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The fundamental Canon 3
- Matt
February 6, 2019 at 9:35 AM
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February 6, 2019 at 1:35 PM
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Welcome to the EpicureanFriends.com Forum
- Cassius
April 29, 2015 at 3:55 PM
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April 29, 2015 at 3:55 PM
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French (Burlamaqui and Rousseau) and German (D'Holbach) Followers of Epicurus (?) 1
- Cassius
December 16, 2023 at 8:00 AM
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December 16, 2023 at 2:44 PM
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Discussion of New Substack Article: "A Gate To Be Burst: Absence of Pain" 27
- Cassius
February 11, 2024 at 5:57 PM
- Cassius
February 13, 2024 at 12:29 AM
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Thanksgiving 4
- Don
November 25, 2020 at 2:47 PM
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November 26, 2020 at 12:25 PM
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Second Edition of Haris Dimitriadis' "Epicurus And the Pleasant Life" Now Released 10
- Cassius
December 15, 2022 at 9:13 AM
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January 12, 2023 at 8:22 AM
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Two Musical Treats - Don, and the Epicureans 8
- Cassius
August 14, 2021 at 6:36 AM
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August 15, 2021 at 11:52 AM
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Discussion: The Twentieth Feast 2
- Hiram
April 16, 2019 at 5:07 PM
- Hiram
April 16, 2019 at 6:24 PM
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My video summary of Epicurean philosophy 3
- Eoghan Gardiner
July 12, 2020 at 8:59 AM
- Eoghan Gardiner
July 13, 2020 at 1:53 AM
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Argumentation Theory of Stephen E. Toulmin 5
- Kalosyni
February 2, 2022 at 2:03 PM
- Kalosyni
February 3, 2022 at 11:40 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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"School Turns to The Teachings of Aristotle...." [to indoctrinate young minds in "virtue"] 3
- Cassius
May 21, 2019 at 8:38 PM
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May 23, 2019 at 3:33 PM
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Poem - Iowa Fields 3
- Joshua
July 10, 2019 at 2:30 PM
- Joshua
July 10, 2019 at 7:43 PM
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Thoughts on Categorizing Desires: Natural, Necessary, and Vain 7
- Kalosyni
October 7, 2022 at 9:55 AM
- Kalosyni
October 11, 2022 at 8:51 AM
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La Mettrie: an Epicurean System 3
- Hiram
February 12, 2020 at 4:05 PM
- Hiram
February 12, 2020 at 8:21 PM
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Article Added: A A Long's "Chance and Natural Law in Epicureanism" 2
- Cassius
June 28, 2019 at 8:57 AM
- Cassius
June 29, 2019 at 9:16 AM
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Senigallia Epicurean Festival Coming Up July 21-23 7
- Cassius
June 26, 2022 at 9:04 AM
- Cassius
July 27, 2022 at 10:01 AM
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It was a pleasure 2
- Joshua
January 17, 2020 at 9:17 AM
- Joshua
January 17, 2020 at 11:07 AM
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Priorities: How To Rank "Pursuing Pleasure" vs. "Avoiding Pain" 2
- Cassius
February 4, 2019 at 5:10 PM
- Cassius
February 5, 2019 at 5:18 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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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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