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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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A Draft Epicurean Pleasure Maximization Worksheet 8
- Cassius
July 11, 2019 at 10:25 PM
- Cassius
November 4, 2019 at 10:46 AM
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The Kind of Ring I'd Like to See 8
- Joshua
August 5, 2019 at 9:47 AM
- Joshua
August 6, 2019 at 7:51 AM
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A Reddit Exchange With Comments 8
- Cassius
September 28, 2019 at 8:02 PM
- Cassius
September 30, 2019 at 9:14 AM
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How are Epicurean things in Italy, Michele? 8
- Cassius
October 17, 2019 at 7:30 AM
- Cassius
October 19, 2019 at 9:13 AM
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Athens and the Open Library 8
- Joshua
October 20, 2019 at 6:18 PM
- Joshua
March 24, 2020 at 2:06 PM
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Creative Assistance Needed! "The Twelve Days of Class With Epicurus" 8
- Cassius
January 4, 2020 at 7:54 PM
- Cassius
January 5, 2020 at 4:37 PM
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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
- Cassius
March 17, 2020 at 5:18 PM
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Alciphron, Letters, Letters of the Courtesans: Leontion to Lamia (Fictional Epistle) 8
- Charles
June 9, 2020 at 8:01 PM
- Charles
March 4, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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New Music Created by Michele Pinto and Andrea Celidoni - Free As Epicurus - The Epicurus Rap! 8
- Cassius
August 10, 2020 at 10:20 AM
- Cassius
August 13, 2020 at 9:05 AM
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So, this is what we're up against... 8
- Don
August 8, 2021 at 2:39 PM
- Don
August 13, 2021 at 7:21 AM
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Two Musical Treats - Don, and the Epicureans 8
- Cassius
August 14, 2021 at 6:36 AM
- Cassius
August 15, 2021 at 11:52 AM
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Future Podcasting Plans - Lucretius Today and Otherwise 8
- Cassius
September 11, 2021 at 9:55 AM
- Cassius
September 14, 2021 at 1:56 AM
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New Audio Version of Torquatus' Presentation of Epicurean Ethics - Read By Joshua 8
- Cassius
November 26, 2021 at 10:02 PM
- Cassius
January 27, 2022 at 9:03 AM
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Rarely read writer DeCasseres on Epicurus' great discovery 8
- EricR
February 27, 2022 at 8:01 AM
- EricR
February 27, 2022 at 4:45 PM
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The Last Words of Charles Darwin 8
- Joshua
April 19, 2022 at 10:53 PM
- Joshua
May 4, 2022 at 9:42 PM
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Thoughts on Prudence and the Virtues in the Letter to Menoeceus 8
- Root304
August 1, 2022 at 2:06 AM
- Root304
August 2, 2022 at 8:20 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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Augustine of Hippo, The City of God, XI.5; & Theophilus of Antioch, To Autolycus, III.6 8
- Don
November 10, 2023 at 7:47 AM
- Don
November 11, 2023 at 3:06 PM
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Philodemus On the Senses 8
- Bryan
January 30, 2024 at 12:01 AM
- Bryan
February 1, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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One of the Greatest Epicureans of All? 8
- Cyrano
February 8, 2024 at 6:06 PM
- Cyrano
February 9, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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If We Agree For The Sake of Argument That "The Perfect Should Not Be The Enemy of The Good," then let's ask "What *Should* We Consider To Be The Proper Relationship Between The Perfect And The Good?" 8
- Cassius
February 26, 2024 at 4:43 PM
- Cassius
February 29, 2024 at 12:22 AM
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The Covered Father 8
- Bryan
March 2, 2024 at 9:43 PM
- Bryan
March 6, 2024 at 10:29 PM
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The dark Epicureanism in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 9
- Stan85
May 24, 2018 at 10:57 PM
- Stan85
May 7, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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Can You Suggest A Reading List For New Students of Epicurus? 9
- Cassius
December 9, 2018 at 11:46 AM
- Cassius
September 3, 2019 at 10:46 PM
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Sweetness and Light 9
- Joshua
May 30, 2019 at 9:35 AM
- Joshua
June 4, 2019 at 3:34 PM
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Happy Twentieth of October, 2019: What Would A Local Epicurean Organization Look Like? 9
- Cassius
October 19, 2019 at 9:26 PM
- Cassius
October 21, 2019 at 4:49 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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Musings on A Quick Statement of "What It Means to Be An Epicurean" 9
- Cassius
July 13, 2020 at 10:57 PM
- Cassius
July 16, 2020 at 4:34 PM
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Epicurean Food Trivia - Garum? 9
- Cassius
February 23, 2021 at 7:03 AM
- Cassius
January 10, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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⟐ as the symbol of the philosophy of Epicurus 9
- michelepinto
March 18, 2021 at 11:59 AM
- michelepinto
March 26, 2021 at 9:14 AM
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