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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
- burninglights
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
- shahabgh66
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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Illusions and Trusting the Senses - An Example
- Cassius
May 16, 2018 at 9:59 AM
- Cassius
May 16, 2018 at 9:59 AM
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If We Could Commission Davide Baldoni To Do More Scenes From Lucretius, What Would You Suggest They Be?
- Cassius
August 22, 2021 at 5:50 AM
- Cassius
August 22, 2021 at 5:50 AM
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If We Agree For The Sake of Argument That "The Perfect Should Not Be The Enemy of The Good," then let's ask "What *Should* We Consider To Be The Proper Relationship Between The Perfect And The Good?" 8
- Cassius
February 26, 2024 at 4:43 PM
- Cassius
February 29, 2024 at 12:22 AM
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If only there were an EpicuruCon... 8
- Don
November 5, 2022 at 12:34 PM
- Don
November 7, 2022 at 4:33 AM
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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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If Anyone Is Working On A Research Or Writing Post Please Be Sure To Post And Ask For Help
- Cassius
April 2, 2019 at 5:18 PM
- Cassius
April 2, 2019 at 5:18 PM
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Idola Fori
- DavidN
February 21, 2024 at 7:12 AM
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February 21, 2024 at 7:12 AM
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I'm not going to translate this 5
- michelepinto
May 11, 2019 at 3:42 PM
- michelepinto
May 11, 2019 at 5:46 PM
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I'm back.....:-) 49
- brett
November 11, 2020 at 7:00 PM
- brett
November 15, 2020 at 3:59 PM
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I Am Firmly Convinced That The Future of Epicurean Philosophy Won't Be Found In The Ivory Tower 14
- Cassius
October 18, 2019 at 7:41 AM
- Cassius
October 18, 2019 at 8:17 PM
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Hygge and the Landscape of Pleasure: a Book Review 1
- Hiram
March 15, 2019 at 10:55 AM
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March 15, 2019 at 5:52 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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How would you respond to an existentialist who says "You Epicureans have chosen pleasure as your meaning but it's not universal" do Epicureans hold that pleasure is the universal Good? 13
- Eoghan Gardiner
June 13, 2023 at 9:13 AM
- Eoghan Gardiner
June 15, 2023 at 12:36 AM
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How Would You Answer Someone New Who Asked You: "What Is Epicurean Philosophy All About?" 4
- Cassius
September 1, 2019 at 8:08 AM
- Cassius
September 1, 2019 at 10:39 AM
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How would Epicurus view "differences from the start of life that are out of our control?" 7
- Cassius
December 6, 2022 at 7:39 PM
- Cassius
December 9, 2022 at 3:22 PM
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How To Turn Epicurean Philosophy On Its Head As Quickly As Possible - A Quick Comment on Mark 12 3
- Cassius
December 21, 2018 at 8:58 AM
- Cassius
December 21, 2018 at 3:22 PM
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How to live a Good Life Featured in PW 5
- Hiram
March 26, 2019 at 8:24 AM
- Hiram
January 7, 2020 at 11:32 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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How To Convert A Neo-Epicurean Into A Classical Epicurean 24
- Cassius
January 15, 2020 at 8:33 AM
- Cassius
May 2, 2020 at 3:00 PM
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How The Christians Wiped Out Epicureanism
- Hiram
July 24, 2019 at 9:43 AM
- Hiram
July 24, 2019 at 9:43 AM
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How NOT To Escape Plato's Cave 3
- Cassius
February 27, 2020 at 8:37 AM
- Cassius
February 29, 2020 at 3:25 AM
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How has the word epicurean come to mean excess? 22
- ThinkingCat
May 13, 2023 at 9:24 AM
- ThinkingCat
May 19, 2023 at 6:50 PM
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How do we feel about Peter Saint-Andre? 6
- Charles
January 14, 2020 at 3:23 PM
- Charles
March 1, 2020 at 5:51 PM
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How are Epicurean things in Italy, Michele? 8
- Cassius
October 17, 2019 at 7:30 AM
- Cassius
October 19, 2019 at 9:13 AM
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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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Historical References on the School of Epicurean Philosophy - Notable Epicureans From The Ancient World To Today 5
- Cassius
February 1, 2022 at 8:34 AM
- Cassius
February 1, 2022 at 11:55 AM
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Hiram Crespo on The Pursuit of Happiness, Epicurean Philosophy, and Changing Your Mindset 6
- Hiram
December 14, 2018 at 2:23 PM
- Hiram
December 17, 2018 at 12:22 PM
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Hidden Brain: Where Gratitude Gets You 1
- Don
December 3, 2020 at 7:58 AM
- Don
December 3, 2020 at 2:01 PM
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Hey guys I created new video against the Stoic idea that virtue is goal of life. Hope you enjoy 2
- Eoghan Gardiner
August 3, 2020 at 12:42 PM
- Eoghan Gardiner
August 3, 2020 at 3:25 PM
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Hermarchus’ Regression of Prayer meme 2
- Hiram
July 10, 2019 at 8:53 AM
- Hiram
July 10, 2019 at 12:46 PM
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