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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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John Stuart Mill on Epicurus 9
- Cassius
September 8, 2022 at 7:14 AM
- Cassius
September 12, 2022 at 6:28 PM
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Jefferson's Concluding Salvo In The Battle Between "Heart" and "Head" 1
- Cassius
September 14, 2022 at 3:03 PM
- Cassius
September 14, 2022 at 6:43 PM
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Lucretius commentary in LATIN! 1
- Don
September 16, 2022 at 8:02 AM
- Don
September 16, 2022 at 10:12 AM
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Maza Experiment - Successes? and Failures! 7
- Don
September 12, 2022 at 5:06 PM
- Don
September 18, 2022 at 9:26 AM
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Arrakis 1
- Joshua
September 18, 2022 at 10:05 PM
- Joshua
September 19, 2022 at 4:44 AM
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Research Assistance (Technology)
- Cassius
September 21, 2022 at 11:44 AM
- Cassius
September 21, 2022 at 11:44 AM
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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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Another mainstream article claiming ataraxia is the goal 40
- Kalosyni
September 22, 2022 at 4:05 PM
- Kalosyni
September 28, 2022 at 3:03 PM
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Denis Lambin 2
- Joshua
September 29, 2022 at 10:41 PM
- Joshua
September 30, 2022 at 6:16 AM
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More Sluething -This Time Against Cicero 1
- Cassius
October 3, 2022 at 8:38 PM
- Cassius
October 3, 2022 at 8:48 PM
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Questions Re PD 26 - PD30 From the 10/5/22 Zoom 27
- Cassius
October 6, 2022 at 8:30 AM
- Cassius
October 10, 2022 at 6:40 AM
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Sculptures Damaged at the Vatican 15
- Joshua
October 7, 2022 at 11:08 PM
- Joshua
October 10, 2022 at 2:39 PM
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Thoughts on Categorizing Desires: Natural, Necessary, and Vain 7
- Kalosyni
October 7, 2022 at 9:55 AM
- Kalosyni
October 11, 2022 at 8:51 AM
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Diogenes of Oinoanda And the Timing of Causes 11
- Cassius
October 11, 2022 at 10:51 PM
- Cassius
October 12, 2022 at 2:31 PM
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21st Century Epicurean (My Blog) -- An Exploration of Minimalism Leads to Hygge 2
- Kalosyni
October 13, 2022 at 9:13 AM
- Kalosyni
October 13, 2022 at 12:23 PM
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Overcome Suicidal Ideation and Find Greater Meaning in Life 1
- Kalosyni
October 14, 2022 at 10:19 AM
- Kalosyni
October 14, 2022 at 11:32 AM
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The Science of Understanding Near Death Experiences -- A very good article to read 2
- Kalosyni
October 23, 2022 at 5:34 PM
- Kalosyni
October 24, 2022 at 3:50 PM
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Bookcase project 17
- Martin
October 24, 2022 at 4:46 AM
- Martin
October 25, 2022 at 11:51 AM
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Probably One Of The Worst Ideas/Questions I Have Ever Posed: "Is There Any Community-Building Opportunity in The On-Line Game Zero AD?" 13
- Cassius
October 27, 2022 at 7:26 PM
- Cassius
October 28, 2022 at 12:44 PM
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If only there were an EpicuruCon... 8
- Don
November 5, 2022 at 12:34 PM
- Don
November 7, 2022 at 4:33 AM
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The Appearance of "EpicurusInLove.com" 1
- Cassius
November 7, 2022 at 7:08 PM
- Cassius
November 8, 2022 at 9:40 AM
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An Epicurean Study of Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics 75
- Don
October 7, 2022 at 6:26 PM
- Don
November 9, 2022 at 2:53 PM
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Ten (10) commandments 22
- Mathitis Kipouros
November 17, 2022 at 6:55 PM
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November 22, 2022 at 1:36 AM
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"Epicurean Issues" By Our Friend Michele Pinto 3
- Cassius
November 22, 2022 at 6:12 AM
- Cassius
November 22, 2022 at 9:20 AM
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Happy Thanksgiving Thread 13
- Cassius
November 22, 2022 at 4:32 AM
- Cassius
November 23, 2022 at 6:34 PM
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Consideration of the Attic month and Nate's graphic of the moon on the 20th 18
- Kalosyni
November 30, 2022 at 9:10 AM
- Kalosyni
November 30, 2022 at 10:46 PM
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How would Epicurus view "differences from the start of life that are out of our control?" 7
- Cassius
December 6, 2022 at 7:39 PM
- Cassius
December 9, 2022 at 3:22 PM
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A Word About Words 4
- Pacatus
December 9, 2022 at 1:13 PM
- Pacatus
December 9, 2022 at 9:23 PM
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Article: Scientists Didn’t Believe in Meteorites Until 1803 3
- Kalosyni
December 15, 2022 at 10:45 AM
- Kalosyni
December 15, 2022 at 5:29 PM
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Post-Philippi Troubles in The Ancient Epicurean World 7
- Cassius
December 15, 2022 at 1:04 PM
- Cassius
December 15, 2022 at 7:56 PM
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