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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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Has Anyone Read Catherine Nixey's "Darkening Age: Christian Destruction of the Classical Age"? 5
- Cassius
August 14, 2020 at 8:32 PM
- Cassius
August 17, 2020 at 2:38 AM
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Cultivating our own garden [Voltaire Discussion] 5
- Mathitis Kipouros
September 17, 2020 at 12:09 AM
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September 17, 2020 at 9:30 AM
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Nate's "Back of the Book" Graphic 5
- Cassius
May 13, 2021 at 9:40 AM
- Cassius
May 13, 2021 at 9:09 PM
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Claude Adrienne Helvetius 5
- Cassius
July 21, 2021 at 12:26 PM
- Cassius
July 21, 2021 at 8:01 PM
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Martial, Ode on Mount Vesuvius 5
- Joshua
August 8, 2021 at 4:53 PM
- Joshua
August 8, 2021 at 10:14 PM
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Creating and Nurturing the Epicurean Philosophy Community 5
- Kalosyni
December 9, 2021 at 3:33 PM
- Kalosyni
December 17, 2021 at 4:08 PM
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Why Parrhesia is Necessary 5
- Matt
December 29, 2021 at 2:06 PM
- Matt
January 7, 2022 at 6:53 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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Argumentation Theory of Stephen E. Toulmin 5
- Kalosyni
February 2, 2022 at 2:03 PM
- Kalosyni
February 3, 2022 at 11:40 AM
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Sir William Temple, "Upon the Gardens of Epicurus", 1685 5
- Joshua
March 11, 2022 at 8:41 PM
- Joshua
July 20, 2022 at 3:28 AM
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The destruction of the ancient world 5
- Don
April 29, 2022 at 7:47 AM
- Don
May 3, 2022 at 8:25 AM
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"Take your pleasure seriously" 5
- Don
May 14, 2022 at 8:49 AM
- Don
May 14, 2022 at 10:04 PM
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Nope, have not nor plan to try... 5
- Don
September 25, 2022 at 3:03 PM
- Don
September 26, 2022 at 8:33 PM
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The Concept of Time: Physics and Perception 5
- Kalosyni
December 16, 2022 at 8:12 PM
- Kalosyni
December 17, 2022 at 12:48 AM
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Christos Yapijakis and The Garden Of Athens Release "Epicurean Philosophy: An Introduction from The Garden of Athens" 5
- Cassius
January 6, 2023 at 2:01 PM
- Cassius
March 8, 2023 at 4:55 PM
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Article and Short Video By Don On The Location of The Garden of Epicurus in Athens 5
- Cassius
April 22, 2023 at 8:49 AM
- Cassius
April 22, 2023 at 3:23 PM
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Comparison Between Cyrenaic and Epicurean Epistemology 5
- Cassius
April 23, 2023 at 4:58 PM
- Cassius
April 30, 2023 at 11:40 AM
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Fill in the Blank: "Epicurus Campaigned Primarily Against _________________" 5
- Cassius
April 24, 2023 at 10:42 AM
- Cassius
April 26, 2023 at 6:07 PM
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Julie Giovacchini - "The Tetrapharmakos, Authentic Formula Or Simplistic Summary Of Epicurean Ethics?" 5
- Don
August 3, 2023 at 1:35 PM
- Don
August 4, 2023 at 2:33 PM
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New Front Page "Forum Navigation Map" 5
- Cassius
August 18, 2023 at 1:37 PM
- Cassius
September 13, 2023 at 6:10 PM
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The Temple of Venus Genetrix 5
- Joshua
August 28, 2023 at 9:58 PM
- Joshua
August 29, 2023 at 10:06 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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Greek Atomism and subatomic particles. 'Atomos' and 'Ameres' 5
- TauPhi
October 29, 2023 at 11:26 PM
- TauPhi
October 30, 2023 at 11:00 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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Sports are fun but is exercise really something Epicurus would have lauded? 5
- Peter Konstans
March 14, 2024 at 1:33 PM
- Peter Konstans
March 31, 2024 at 10:51 AM
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Placita by Aetius 5
- Bryan
March 25, 2024 at 7:57 PM
- Bryan
March 26, 2024 at 12:09 PM
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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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Happy Holidays 6
- Matt
December 25, 2018 at 12:38 PM
- Matt
January 1, 2019 at 12:14 PM
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We're in the Bible!! 6
- Hiram
March 4, 2019 at 7:20 PM
- Hiram
March 14, 2019 at 2:53 PM
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Epicureanism – Busts of Venus, Athena, Epicurus 6
- Hiram
March 30, 2019 at 10:10 AM
- Hiram
March 31, 2019 at 3:23 PM
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