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- Cassius
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Give Us an Example of God! 63
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Technology For Epicureans 5
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Poem in Petronius' Satyricon 2
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Yahoo Article: Epicureanism as an alternative to Stoicism 5
- kochiekoch
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Ideas For 2025?
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Téōs Around an Idea 4
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Potty Language
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A Lovely Little Way to Refer to Memories
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Poem - Abonoteichus 6
- Joshua
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Happy Twentieth to Everyone Here! 2
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- Lee
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Somerset Maugham on Epicureanism over one hundred years ago 4
- Jon M
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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
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Walking in the Garden 6
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Both Sides of the Garden's Walls 6
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Nuremberg Chronicle in real life 3
- Don
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The Amazonian Tribe That Won't Believe in God 2
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Epicurean kèpos in Autun - France. 7
- Marco
January 12, 2022 at 5:33 AM
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The 422nd Anniversary of the Execution of Giordano Bruno 2
- Joshua
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Neuroscience of Happiness and Pleasure -- Morten L. Kringelbach and Kent C. Berridge 8
- Kalosyni
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A List of Life Pleasures 4
- Kalosyni
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Nope, have not nor plan to try... 5
- Don
September 25, 2022 at 3:03 PM
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Denis Lambin 2
- Joshua
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Thoughts on Categorizing Desires: Natural, Necessary, and Vain 7
- Kalosyni
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A Facebook Question On Continental Philosophy and Nate's Response 3
- Cassius
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Joseph Conrad, Author's Note to the 2nd Edition of "The Shadow Line" 2
- Joshua
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"The Philosophical Mind" enters the skull of Epicurus 12
- EricR
July 19, 2023 at 9:05 AM
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Augustine of Hippo, The City of God, XI.5; & Theophilus of Antioch, To Autolycus, III.6 8
- Don
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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
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Empedocles Document Found
- kochiekoch
September 10, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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Preconceptions and PD24 47
- Eikadistes
December 14, 2021 at 5:50 PM - General Discussion
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Why pursue unnecessary desires? 41
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Happy Star Wars Day 1
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The Importance Of The Perfect Not Being Allowed To Be The Enemy of The Good 29
- Cassius
May 18, 2023 at 10:30 AM - General Discussion
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Must All Things That Have A Beginning Have An End? 10
- Cassius
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