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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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Egypt archaeologists unearth stunning 'Temple of Zeus' dedicated to Greek god 1
- Cassius
May 1, 2022 at 7:11 PM
- Cassius
May 1, 2022 at 7:20 PM
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Edward Abbey - My Favorite Quotes
- Joshua
July 11, 2019 at 7:57 PM
- Joshua
July 11, 2019 at 7:57 PM
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Ecclesiastes what insights can we gleam from it? 1
- Eoghan Gardiner
December 2, 2023 at 6:11 AM
- Eoghan Gardiner
December 2, 2023 at 6:30 AM
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Early homo sapiens and sociability.
- kochiekoch
May 17, 2023 at 9:42 PM
- kochiekoch
May 17, 2023 at 9:42 PM
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Dr. Frans de Waal, Primatologist 16
- Joshua
March 1, 2023 at 9:16 PM
- Joshua
March 4, 2023 at 8:27 PM
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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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Doubt is Unpleasant, But It's Not Your Worst Enemy
- Cassius
December 20, 2015 at 11:56 AM
- Cassius
December 20, 2015 at 11:56 AM
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Does the philosophy change you? 45
- EricR
June 13, 2023 at 7:56 AM
- EricR
June 16, 2023 at 1:05 PM
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Does Baloo Speak for Epicurus In the Song "Bare Necessities" from "The Jungle Book" Movie? 5
- Cassius
February 18, 2020 at 8:42 AM
- Cassius
February 18, 2020 at 2:18 PM
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Discussion: The Twentieth Feast 2
- Hiram
April 16, 2019 at 5:07 PM
- Hiram
April 16, 2019 at 6:24 PM
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Discussion-Starters With Non-Epicureans: Biblical References to Epicurus / Epicurean Philosophy 5
- Cassius
February 29, 2020 at 7:37 AM
- Cassius
March 3, 2020 at 1:32 PM
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Discussion Round-Up 1
- Joshua
December 31, 2019 at 5:21 AM
- Joshua
December 31, 2019 at 6:52 AM
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Discussion on Ataraxia: freedom from anxiety....What is it?...How can we attain it in a world mad with chaos and conflict? 24
- Raphael Raul
December 1, 2023 at 11:14 AM
- Raphael Raul
February 22, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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Discussion of the Article "On Pleasure vs Tranquility - A Dialogue With Southampton"
- Cassius
September 26, 2019 at 4:38 PM
- Cassius
September 26, 2019 at 4:38 PM
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Discussion of New Substack Article: "A Gate To Be Burst: Absence of Pain" 27
- Cassius
February 11, 2024 at 5:57 PM
- Cassius
February 13, 2024 at 12:29 AM
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Discussion of Article: "Political Division In The Promotion of Epicurean Philosophy: A Prescription For Disaster" 6
- Cassius
September 28, 2019 at 8:54 AM
- Cassius
September 29, 2019 at 7:42 PM
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Discussion of Article: "Caricatures to the Left of Them, Caricatures to the Right of Them, Caricatures In Front of Them, Volleyed and Thundered" 3
- Cassius
May 4, 2020 at 9:34 AM
- Cassius
May 4, 2020 at 3:36 PM
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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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Diogenes Laertius on Epicurean Ethics 3
- Kalosyni
December 1, 2021 at 1:36 PM
- Kalosyni
December 2, 2021 at 1:58 AM
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Did Epicurus Create a Finished Product? 4
- Joshua
August 4, 2019 at 1:31 PM
- Joshua
August 4, 2019 at 7:54 PM
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Dicussion of Elli's Article: On The Ill Health of Epicurus vs. The Insanity Of The Modern World 3
- Cassius
March 19, 2020 at 3:27 PM
- Cassius
March 24, 2020 at 2:34 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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Death of Titus Pomponius Atticus, 32 BC (Sun, Mar 31st 2024) 2
- Joshua
March 3, 2024 at 11:16 AM
- Joshua
March 3, 2024 at 11:57 AM
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Dead Reddit / The "Isms" Thread 62
- Twentier
November 21, 2019 at 5:09 PM
- Twentier
December 22, 2019 at 7:08 PM
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David Konstan - Life worthy of the Gods 3
- timrobbe
October 24, 2020 at 5:28 AM
- timrobbe
October 24, 2020 at 8:18 AM
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David Attenborough on Lucretius 2
- Joshua
May 6, 2021 at 12:28 AM
- Joshua
May 6, 2021 at 9:18 AM
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Daily Reflection from an Epicurean View 6
- Chryso
April 2, 2024 at 12:11 AM
- Chryso
April 2, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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Cyreniacism Gone Wrong - "Hegesias the Death Persuader" 13
- Cassius
May 18, 2023 at 7:48 AM
- Cassius
May 22, 2023 at 2:07 AM
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Cultivating our own garden [Voltaire Discussion] 5
- Mathitis Kipouros
September 17, 2020 at 12:09 AM
- Mathitis Kipouros
September 17, 2020 at 9:30 AM
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Criticisms of An Article Entitled "Epicurean Pleasure" (October 1, 2018) 4
- Cassius
October 2, 2018 at 9:28 AM
- Cassius
October 9, 2018 at 8:40 AM
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