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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? 47
- burninglights
November 17, 2023 at 8:20 PM
- burninglights
March 17, 2024 at 7:30 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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Top Ten Recognizable Epicurean "Slogans" 6
- Cassius
March 25, 2024 at 9:19 AM
- Cassius
April 12, 2024 at 9:33 AM
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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
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December 10, 2023 at 5:41 PM
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A Veiled Reference to Epicurus in Robert Heinlein? 2
- Joshua
June 29, 2019 at 12:32 PM
- Joshua
July 1, 2019 at 9:29 AM
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Preparation of a position statement on near-death experiences 2
- Martin
July 5, 2019 at 10:09 AM
- Martin
July 5, 2019 at 4:09 PM
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Happy Twentieth of July: Remembering That Pleasure Has Many Enemies 3
- Cassius
July 19, 2019 at 9:58 PM
- Cassius
July 20, 2019 at 9:16 AM
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Happy 20 with a lot of news from Italy 20
- michelepinto
July 20, 2019 at 3:50 AM
- michelepinto
July 26, 2019 at 5:57 AM
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Happy Twentieth! On the Importance of Healthy Emotions
- Hiram
August 20, 2019 at 12:53 PM
- Hiram
August 20, 2019 at 12:53 PM
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Peace and Safety For Those in The Path of Hurricane Dorian! 4
- Cassius
September 3, 2019 at 6:58 PM
- Cassius
September 4, 2019 at 9:36 PM
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The (belated) Decline of Christianity in the United States 11
- Joshua
October 19, 2019 at 8:35 PM
- Joshua
October 20, 2019 at 9:37 AM
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Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold 10
- Joshua
November 20, 2019 at 9:24 PM
- Joshua
November 21, 2019 at 2:41 PM
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Poem - Snow in Montana 2
- Joshua
November 30, 2019 at 9:30 AM
- Joshua
November 30, 2019 at 3:10 PM
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Happy Holidays To All! 1
- Cassius
December 23, 2019 at 1:57 PM
- Cassius
December 23, 2019 at 2:32 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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Epicurus and the Art of Land Surveying 2
- Joshua
January 23, 2020 at 10:47 PM
- Joshua
January 24, 2020 at 8:22 AM
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How NOT To Escape Plato's Cave 3
- Cassius
February 27, 2020 at 8:37 AM
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February 29, 2020 at 3:25 AM
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On Covid19 And Ruthlessly Taking The Measure Of Our Values (New York Times Article by Stephen Greenblatt) 8
- Cassius
March 17, 2020 at 8:17 AM
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March 17, 2020 at 5:18 PM
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Happy Twentieth of March 2020! 3
- Cassius
March 20, 2020 at 7:20 AM
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March 20, 2020 at 10:24 AM
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Happy Twentieth! 5
- Joshua
April 20, 2020 at 2:37 PM
- Joshua
April 21, 2020 at 1:02 AM
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Some notes on Plato’s Republic (actually on the Cliffs Notes thereof) 6
- Godfrey
April 23, 2020 at 8:34 PM
- Godfrey
April 24, 2020 at 3:40 PM
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Epicurean Ethics And the Coronavirus Episode - A Starting Point 3
- Cassius
April 29, 2020 at 8:02 AM
- Cassius
April 29, 2020 at 6:11 PM
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Michel de Montaigne on pleasure 9
- Godfrey
April 30, 2020 at 6:19 PM
- Godfrey
May 1, 2020 at 5:20 PM
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Florida Panhandle Fires 1
- Joshua
May 7, 2020 at 8:52 AM
- Joshua
May 7, 2020 at 5:17 PM
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Yahweh or Zeus? by John Heath 2
- Joshua
May 11, 2020 at 1:56 PM
- Joshua
May 11, 2020 at 4:04 PM
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A Welcome Sign From Shahab
- Cassius
October 28, 2020 at 2:13 PM
- Cassius
October 28, 2020 at 2:13 PM
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New Epicurean Writing Competition - Thanks to Michele Pinto For This Information
- Cassius
November 14, 2020 at 12:52 PM
- Cassius
November 14, 2020 at 12:52 PM
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Condolences to Elayne On The Loss of Her Father 2
- Cassius
November 28, 2020 at 6:26 PM
- Cassius
December 1, 2020 at 6:38 PM
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Natural versus Unnatural 12
- Matt
December 30, 2020 at 8:54 AM
- Matt
January 10, 2021 at 12:33 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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A Sobering Look at Google Ngrams 4
- Joshua
February 18, 2021 at 10:32 PM
- Joshua
February 19, 2021 at 8:40 AM
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Sickness and Health in the Ancient World
- Don
February 20, 2021 at 12:36 PM
- Don
February 20, 2021 at 12:36 PM
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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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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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