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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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"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? 50
- burninglights
November 17, 2023 at 8:20 PM
- burninglights
May 10, 2024 at 8:05 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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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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Happiness Lab episode on Daoism 3
- Don
May 4, 2021 at 7:12 AM
- Don
May 4, 2021 at 3:59 PM
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Nuremberg Chronicle in real life 3
- Don
June 10, 2021 at 4:07 PM
- Don
June 11, 2021 at 8:21 AM
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Gods meme 3
- Mathitis Kipouros
September 16, 2021 at 9:11 AM
- Mathitis Kipouros
September 16, 2021 at 7:18 PM
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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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Diogenes Laertius on Epicurean Ethics 3
- Kalosyni
December 1, 2021 at 1:36 PM
- Kalosyni
December 2, 2021 at 1:58 AM
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Essentialism? 3
- Marco
January 3, 2022 at 7:15 AM
- Marco
January 3, 2022 at 8:30 AM
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Images of Polyaenus? 3
- Twentier
February 22, 2022 at 8:47 AM
- Twentier
February 23, 2022 at 4:57 PM
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Epicurean Communities of the Ancient World 3
- Twentier
June 6, 2022 at 4:34 PM
- Twentier
June 8, 2022 at 12:25 PM
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"Epicurean Issues" By Our Friend Michele Pinto 3
- Cassius
November 22, 2022 at 6:12 AM
- Cassius
November 22, 2022 at 9:20 AM
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Article: Scientists Didn’t Believe in Meteorites Until 1803 3
- Kalosyni
December 15, 2022 at 10:45 AM
- Kalosyni
December 15, 2022 at 5:29 PM
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Help Needed With Broken Links 3
- Cassius
December 29, 2022 at 12:28 PM
- Cassius
December 29, 2022 at 2:00 PM
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A Facebook Question On Continental Philosophy and Nate's Response 3
- Cassius
January 22, 2023 at 8:53 AM
- Cassius
January 29, 2023 at 9:06 AM
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"AI" Images 3
- Twentier
February 16, 2023 at 9:26 AM
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February 17, 2023 at 11:12 AM
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Site Usage Feedback - February 2023 3
- Cassius
February 16, 2023 at 5:00 PM
- Cassius
February 16, 2023 at 5:44 PM
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Essenes or Epicureans? 3
- Don
March 29, 2023 at 8:02 AM
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March 29, 2023 at 1:56 PM
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"Living Life Full Measure" as an Epicurean Metaphor 3
- Cassius
May 14, 2023 at 1:40 PM
- Cassius
May 15, 2023 at 2:28 PM
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Ioannis Stratakis (Podium Arts) releases Letter to Menoeceus!! 3
- Don
November 23, 2023 at 1:12 PM
- Don
November 23, 2023 at 7:07 PM
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Let's Bring Back de Bergerac 3
- Cyrano
February 2, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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February 3, 2024 at 5:01 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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The pleasure ideal: Epicurean vs Cyrenaic 3
- Peter Konstans
March 29, 2024 at 2:01 PM
- Peter Konstans
March 31, 2024 at 11:13 AM
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How To Help The Forum - Start New Threads! 4
- Cassius
March 26, 2018 at 5:49 AM
- Cassius
July 15, 2018 at 5:27 PM
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Criticisms of An Article Entitled "Epicurean Pleasure" (October 1, 2018) 4
- Cassius
October 2, 2018 at 9:28 AM
- Cassius
October 9, 2018 at 8:40 AM
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Happy Twentieth of November, 2018! 4
- Cassius
November 20, 2018 at 2:36 PM
- Cassius
November 25, 2018 at 1:37 PM
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Should the Default Theme Of This Website For New Users Be Light Or Dark? 4
- Cassius
December 7, 2018 at 9:36 AM
- Cassius
December 9, 2018 at 6:58 AM
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Growth Through Sharing Graphics / Memes 4
- Cassius
February 6, 2019 at 8:45 AM
- Cassius
February 7, 2019 at 11:18 AM
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Request For Assistance -- Public Domain Graphics! 4
- Cassius
February 24, 2019 at 4:27 PM
- Cassius
February 24, 2019 at 5:36 PM
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Epicureans on Squandering Life 4
- Hiram
February 26, 2019 at 10:15 AM
- Hiram
February 27, 2019 at 9:55 AM
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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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Will Epicurus and Pirrone save Europe? 4
- michelepinto
April 9, 2019 at 3:48 AM
- michelepinto
April 9, 2019 at 5:45 AM
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Philosofy in Italy 4
- michelepinto
May 1, 2019 at 4:38 PM
- michelepinto
May 2, 2019 at 6:59 AM
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