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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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Getting Over a Cold 4
- Joshua
November 11, 2019 at 12:35 AM
- Joshua
November 11, 2019 at 10:35 PM
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Discussion Round-Up 1
- Joshua
December 31, 2019 at 5:21 AM
- Joshua
December 31, 2019 at 6:52 AM
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An Approach to Reading Philosophy 3
- Elayne
December 31, 2019 at 9:20 AM
- Elayne
December 31, 2019 at 7:16 PM
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Community Health And Wellness Check 10
- Cassius
January 23, 2020 at 10:36 PM
- Cassius
January 28, 2020 at 9:51 PM
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Against the Physicists / Physicians 23
- Hiram
February 1, 2020 at 3:25 PM
- Hiram
February 13, 2020 at 4:55 PM
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Discussion-Starters With Non-Epicureans: Biblical References to Epicurus / Epicurean Philosophy 5
- Cassius
February 29, 2020 at 7:37 AM
- Cassius
March 3, 2020 at 1:32 PM
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An Analogy 2
- Joshua
March 9, 2020 at 7:12 PM
- Joshua
March 9, 2020 at 8:29 PM
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Coronavirus - Epicurean World Report! 37
- Cassius
March 13, 2020 at 8:26 AM
- Cassius
March 24, 2020 at 10:22 AM
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Would An Epicurean Hook Himself Up To An "Experience Machine" or a "Pleasure Machine" If Possible? 27
- Cassius
March 23, 2020 at 2:05 AM
- Cassius
January 8, 2022 at 4:23 PM
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The Breakdown Of Our Modern Societies! 1
- Elli
March 28, 2020 at 2:45 PM
- Elli
March 28, 2020 at 2:49 PM
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The Essential Cicero? 3
- Joshua
April 28, 2020 at 7:10 PM
- Joshua
April 29, 2020 at 8:04 AM
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Etymology & pronunciation of επίκουρος 1
- Don
May 24, 2020 at 5:29 PM
- Don
May 24, 2020 at 6:26 PM
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Alciphron, Letters, Letters of the Courtesans: Leontion to Lamia (Fictional Epistle) 8
- Charles
June 9, 2020 at 8:01 PM
- Charles
March 4, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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Mochus (or Moschus) the Phoenician 1
- Joshua
July 6, 2020 at 1:53 PM
- Joshua
July 6, 2020 at 2:55 PM
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Virtual Archeological Tours 3
- Godfrey
July 11, 2020 at 6:35 PM
- Godfrey
July 11, 2020 at 11:00 PM
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Chris Rodda, "Liars for Jesus" 4
- Joshua
July 16, 2020 at 1:50 PM
- Joshua
July 16, 2020 at 7:35 PM
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To What Extent, If Any, Does Modern Physics Invalidate Epicurean Philosophy? 35
- Cassius
August 15, 2020 at 5:39 AM
- Cassius
August 16, 2020 at 5:06 PM
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For New Users - A General Comment About Posting At EpicureanFriends 1
- Cassius
September 25, 2020 at 6:37 PM
- Cassius
September 25, 2020 at 6:38 PM
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Contemporary Chronology 2
- Don
December 29, 2020 at 10:56 PM
- Don
December 30, 2020 at 7:17 AM
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My Plans For 2021 13
- Cassius
January 5, 2021 at 2:18 PM
- Cassius
March 17, 2021 at 10:13 AM
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In Imitation of Lucretius–Bevil Higgons, 1670 to 1735 3
- Joshua
January 15, 2021 at 9:39 PM
- Joshua
January 16, 2021 at 4:28 AM
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Alt-tech outreach 36
- Matthaios
February 7, 2021 at 9:22 PM
- Matthaios
April 26, 2021 at 12:19 PM
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Aurelian Robert and His Book "Epicurus in The Underworld" 1
- Cassius
February 26, 2021 at 3:37 PM
- Cassius
February 26, 2021 at 3:47 PM
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Bust Of Epicurus Reconstructed - Great Video Shared by Elli! 7
- Cassius
April 21, 2021 at 9:05 PM
- Cassius
April 24, 2021 at 10:24 AM
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New Annual Event - The "Bread And Water Multimedia Award" - Nominations for 2021 Award (to be selected in December) Now Open! 10
- Cassius
April 26, 2021 at 3:35 PM
- Cassius
April 27, 2021 at 3:02 PM
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Altruism 10
- Dubitator314
May 30, 2021 at 12:28 PM
- Dubitator314
May 31, 2021 at 12:32 AM
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Vice article on Stoicism (mentions Epicurus) 2
- Don
July 24, 2021 at 11:47 PM
- Don
July 25, 2021 at 6:53 AM
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Translation (A poem) 15
- Don
July 29, 2021 at 9:22 AM
- Don
August 5, 2021 at 8:44 PM
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EpicureanFriends Participants Reading List Report 2
- Cassius
August 25, 2021 at 1:56 PM
- Cassius
August 26, 2021 at 8:08 AM
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Goethe and Epicurus / Lucretius
- Cassius
September 4, 2021 at 8:23 PM
- Cassius
September 4, 2021 at 8:23 PM
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