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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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Joseph Thompson - "Lucretius Or Paul?" 1875 7
- Don
February 12, 2024 at 7:20 PM
- Don
February 12, 2024 at 8:40 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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Take It Easy (CBS Sunday Morning) 1
- Don
April 28, 2024 at 5:18 PM
- Don
April 29, 2024 at 8:13 AM
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Happy Mother's Day
- Don
May 12, 2024 at 10:01 AM
- Don
May 12, 2024 at 10:01 AM
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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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Pleasure and Reality 23
- Elayne
April 8, 2019 at 9:57 AM
- Elayne
April 14, 2019 at 7:33 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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Wanting vs Liking
- Elayne
January 24, 2021 at 9:05 AM
- Elayne
January 24, 2021 at 9:05 AM
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Epicurean Philosophy for Parents 1
- Elayne
February 22, 2021 at 7:51 AM
- Elayne
February 22, 2021 at 9:14 AM
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A Man’s Neighbor And His Dog (PDs' 32 & 39 &40)
- Elli
November 5, 2018 at 10:36 AM
- Elli
November 5, 2018 at 10:36 AM
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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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HAPPY NEW YEAR 6
- Elli
December 31, 2020 at 6:15 PM
- Elli
January 1, 2021 at 10:06 AM
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On the associations between Virtue and Pleasure and my Epicurean Write up 1
- Eoghan Gardiner
March 27, 2018 at 4:43 AM
- Eoghan Gardiner
March 27, 2018 at 7:56 AM
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Epicurean Blog 3
- Eoghan Gardiner
May 7, 2018 at 2:21 PM
- Eoghan Gardiner
May 7, 2018 at 4:50 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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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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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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Chatgpt on how to live the Epicurean life in todays society... overall not great 5
- Eoghan Gardiner
October 23, 2023 at 10:39 AM
- Eoghan Gardiner
October 24, 2023 at 6:05 AM
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Inquiry into Eclecticism: Assessing its Benefits to Epicurean Philosophy 16
- Eoghan Gardiner
November 22, 2023 at 3:40 PM
- Eoghan Gardiner
November 26, 2023 at 5:13 PM
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Ecclesiastes what insights can we gleam from it? 1
- Eoghan Gardiner
December 2, 2023 at 6:11 AM
- Eoghan Gardiner
December 2, 2023 at 6:30 AM
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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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What holds me back from embracing EP 29
- EricR
March 1, 2022 at 11:03 AM
- EricR
July 20, 2022 at 8:09 PM
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Does the philosophy change you? 45
- EricR
June 13, 2023 at 7:56 AM
- EricR
June 16, 2023 at 1:05 PM
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"The Philosophical Mind" enters the skull of Epicurus 12
- EricR
July 19, 2023 at 9:05 AM
- EricR
July 27, 2023 at 11:12 AM
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Sharing Zoom sessions 6
- EricR
August 2, 2023 at 8:52 AM
- EricR
August 3, 2023 at 8:15 PM
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A Pleasant Life instead of Pleasure 7
- EricR
August 4, 2023 at 8:14 AM
- EricR
August 5, 2023 at 8:27 PM
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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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Calculus, Minimalism, Consumerism, Finding the Path 15
- Garden Dweller
October 11, 2019 at 10:28 PM
- Garden Dweller
October 18, 2019 at 11:37 AM
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Is Self Preservation a Virtue? 15
- Garden Dweller
November 7, 2019 at 8:10 AM
- Garden Dweller
November 8, 2019 at 7:13 PM
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Free Epicurean Materials Torrent Content Suggestions 5
- godek
December 12, 2018 at 7:05 PM
- godek
December 13, 2018 at 5:26 PM
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