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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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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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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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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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Epicurean Thoughts On Taking Action
- Cassius
March 29, 2019 at 9:51 AM
- Cassius
March 29, 2019 at 9:51 AM
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Epicurean Theology Compared to Mormon Theology 1
- Cassius
February 13, 2021 at 8:58 AM
- Cassius
February 13, 2021 at 9:13 AM
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Epicurean Self-Sufficiency - Video Of A Short Address from the 2013 Promethea Conference in Greece - By George Kaplanis
- Cassius
March 27, 2019 at 8:32 AM
- Cassius
March 27, 2019 at 8:32 AM
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Epicurean Philosophy for the Sensitive Soul 4
- Kalosyni
June 2, 2023 at 3:25 PM
- Kalosyni
July 12, 2023 at 11:25 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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Epicurean Philosophical Tenets That We Can Know With Certainty 1
- Kalosyni
February 22, 2024 at 11:05 AM
- Kalosyni
February 22, 2024 at 1:30 PM
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Epicurean Or Not? "Fiat Justitia ruat caelo" (Let Justice be done though the sky falls) 6
- Cassius
May 31, 2019 at 7:10 PM
- Cassius
June 1, 2019 at 2:49 AM
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Epicurean nautical references, allusions, and metaphors in the texts 17
- Don
August 25, 2022 at 5:43 PM
- Don
August 28, 2022 at 8:15 AM
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Epicurean kèpos in Autun - France. 7
- Marco
January 12, 2022 at 5:33 AM
- Marco
January 12, 2022 at 9:01 AM
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Epicurean Instagram post
- Don
June 12, 2021 at 7:41 AM
- Don
June 12, 2021 at 7:41 AM
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Epicurean Freedom. Enslavement by culture. The mob. 15
- Harrington Andros
April 19, 2018 at 12:42 PM
- Harrington Andros
May 14, 2018 at 12:11 PM
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Epicurean Food Trivia - Garum? 9
- Cassius
February 23, 2021 at 7:03 AM
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January 10, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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Epicurean Festival - Italy - Michele Pinto, Coordinator (Fri, Aug 30th 2019, 8:00 am - Sun, Sep 1st 2019, 8:00 pm) 10
- Cassius
August 25, 2019 at 11:17 AM
- Cassius
September 4, 2019 at 5:57 AM
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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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Epicurean Education and the Rhetoric of Concern, by Sean McConnell 1
- Hiram
August 8, 2019 at 10:03 AM
- Hiram
August 8, 2019 at 10:18 AM
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Epicurean Communities of the Ancient World 3
- Twentier
June 6, 2022 at 4:34 PM
- Twentier
June 8, 2022 at 12:25 PM
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Epicurean Cites on The Issue of Impossibiity of Pure Happiness While Accepting Religious Fables
- Cassius
April 9, 2019 at 2:46 PM
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April 9, 2019 at 2:46 PM
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Epicurean Change 13
- Matt
April 8, 2022 at 8:39 AM
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April 9, 2022 at 3:08 PM
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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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Entertaining Example of Epicurus' Reasons for Rejecting Divination (Nick Of Time - A Short Story Featuring William Shatner)
- Cassius
January 9, 2024 at 8:23 PM
- Cassius
January 9, 2024 at 8:23 PM
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Encouragement Toward Pleasure at the Holidays -- Share your thoughts and experiences 10
- Kalosyni
December 14, 2022 at 12:50 PM
- Kalosyni
December 25, 2022 at 11:16 PM
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Empathy vs pleasure 1
- azbcethananderson
May 24, 2020 at 12:17 PM
- azbcethananderson
May 24, 2020 at 2:27 PM
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Emily Austin Interview With LucretiusToday Now Available on Youtube
- Cassius
February 4, 2023 at 4:33 PM
- Cassius
February 4, 2023 at 4:33 PM
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Embodied Philosophy 4
- Hiram
May 15, 2019 at 4:41 PM
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May 16, 2019 at 6:30 AM
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Elli Quote From Pericles: "And the pleasure which we daily feel in all these things helps us to banish any sorrow."
- Cassius
May 28, 2023 at 9:14 AM
- Cassius
May 28, 2023 at 9:14 AM
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Elli Pensa Video / Reading Letter to Menoeceus 2
- Cassius
June 2, 2023 at 1:00 PM
- Cassius
June 2, 2023 at 1:22 PM
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Elli - On Euphronius
- Cassius
March 28, 2024 at 7:01 PM
- Cassius
March 28, 2024 at 7:01 PM
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Eleni Avdoulou wins the award NetoIP 2021 with a thesis about the Papyri of Herculaneum
- Cassius
July 15, 2021 at 12:22 PM
- Cassius
July 15, 2021 at 12:22 PM
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Elena Nicoli - An Excellent Presentation On Epicurean Pleasure 11
- Cassius
April 16, 2018 at 4:18 PM
- Cassius
May 7, 2018 at 10:50 AM
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Elayne Reviews Alan Reye's Editorial on Thomas Jefferson 2
- Cassius
October 11, 2020 at 3:27 PM
- Cassius
August 7, 2021 at 4:17 PM
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