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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
- Cassius
December 2, 2023 at 3:27 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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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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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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"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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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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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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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
- 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
- shahabgh66
January 26, 2024 at 7:24 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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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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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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Josh's journal #2 - Vestment and Investment
- Joshua
June 13, 2019 at 7:40 AM
- Joshua
June 13, 2019 at 7:40 AM
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Modern Science Meets the Canon 8
- Godfrey
June 2, 2019 at 8:44 PM
- Godfrey
June 4, 2019 at 3:33 PM
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New Forum For Discussion of Movies / Books / Arts Which Pose Questions on Proper Pursuit of Pleasure 1
- Cassius
May 21, 2019 at 10:38 PM
- Cassius
May 22, 2019 at 5:30 AM
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Publicly Funded Superstition - video
- Hiram
May 17, 2019 at 2:00 PM
- Hiram
May 17, 2019 at 2:00 PM
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Embodied Philosophy 4
- Hiram
May 15, 2019 at 4:41 PM
- Hiram
May 16, 2019 at 6:30 AM
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Starting a Garden in the digital era
- Hiram
April 13, 2019 at 4:40 PM
- Hiram
April 13, 2019 at 4:40 PM
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A little lesson on death in the supermarket... 3
- bradley.whitley
April 7, 2019 at 7:15 PM
- bradley.whitley
April 7, 2019 at 8:22 PM
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Epicurus, Ionia and India. 5
- Rivelle
April 6, 2019 at 1:02 AM
- Rivelle
April 7, 2019 at 5:27 AM
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Are the Gods Totally Painless? Does Calling Us To "Continuous Pleasure" Mean Totally Painless? 21
- Cassius
April 2, 2019 at 8:24 PM
- Cassius
April 5, 2019 at 4:04 PM
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Newly Found Statue of the Husband of the Epicurean Pompeia Plotina 1
- Cassius
April 2, 2019 at 5:50 PM
- Cassius
April 2, 2019 at 5:51 PM
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Epicureanism – Busts of Venus, Athena, Epicurus 6
- Hiram
March 30, 2019 at 10:10 AM
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March 31, 2019 at 3:23 PM
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On Epicurean Economics
- Hiram
February 20, 2019 at 8:35 AM
- Hiram
February 20, 2019 at 8:35 AM
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Epicureans and the Ancient Greek Gods (Imagery of "Gods" / "Gods Among Men") 70
- Matt
February 12, 2019 at 4:01 PM
- Matt
March 27, 2019 at 6:47 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving 2018
- Cassius
November 22, 2018 at 9:52 AM
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November 22, 2018 at 9:52 AM
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You Only Live Once
- Cassius
October 6, 2018 at 10:48 AM
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October 6, 2018 at 10:48 AM
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Setting Lucretius to Music - An Example from Catullus
- Cassius
August 3, 2018 at 9:20 AM
- Cassius
August 3, 2018 at 9:20 AM
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A General Thought About The Future Of Epicurean Philosophy - On The Meaning of "Pleasure" 2
- Cassius
April 5, 2018 at 7:50 PM
- Cassius
April 13, 2018 at 12:54 PM
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Happy Twentieth of March! 2
- Cassius
March 19, 2018 at 9:11 PM
- Cassius
March 20, 2018 at 1:44 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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Elli - On Euphronius
- Cassius
March 28, 2024 at 7:01 PM
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March 28, 2024 at 7:01 PM
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Erler's view on 'True Epicurean Politics' 7
- Peter Konstans
March 22, 2024 at 2:01 PM
- Peter Konstans
March 24, 2024 at 5:34 AM
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Given The Stress That Many Greek Philosophers' Placed On "Virtue" or a perfect view of "The Good" As The Ultimate Goal, To What Extent Would An Epicurus Have Considered That Approach An "Unnatural and Unnecessary Desire?" 4
- Cassius
February 26, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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February 26, 2024 at 10:48 PM
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Eudoxus of Cnidus was a large camel 2
- Bryan
February 3, 2024 at 11:09 PM
- Bryan
February 4, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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Epicurus' On the nature of things 5
- mcluhan
February 1, 2024 at 1:42 PM
- mcluhan
February 1, 2024 at 11:14 PM
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Human saliva harming snakes 2
- Bryan
January 17, 2024 at 4:28 PM
- Bryan
January 17, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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Epicurean Warnings Against Misrepresentation (Intentional or Negligent) In Philosophy 2
- Cassius
January 14, 2024 at 8:37 AM
- Cassius
January 14, 2024 at 11:16 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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Discussion on Ataraxia: freedom from anxiety....What is it?...How can we attain it in a world mad with chaos and conflict? 24
- Raphael Raul
December 1, 2023 at 11:14 AM
- Raphael Raul
February 22, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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If Death Is Nothing To Us, Then Life Is Everything to Us 29
- Cassius
October 7, 2023 at 12:06 AM
- Cassius
October 7, 2023 at 8:22 PM
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The Description of Epicurean Philosophy On Wikipedia 10
- Cassius
October 4, 2023 at 4:03 PM
- Cassius
February 1, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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