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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Preconceptions and PD24 39
- Twentier
December 14, 2021 at 5:50 PM
- Twentier
February 9, 2022 at 9:41 PM
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Preparation of a position statement on near-death experiences 2
- Martin
July 5, 2019 at 10:09 AM
- Martin
July 5, 2019 at 4:09 PM
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Principles of Interpretation - (Observation by Collingwood) 2
- Cassius
February 28, 2018 at 1:42 PM
- Cassius
February 28, 2018 at 5:15 PM
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Priorities: How To Rank "Pursuing Pleasure" vs. "Avoiding Pain" 2
- Cassius
February 4, 2019 at 5:10 PM
- Cassius
February 5, 2019 at 5:18 PM
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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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Profile of Past Reading 16
- Cassius
October 21, 2019 at 1:23 PM
- Cassius
November 5, 2019 at 3:37 PM
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Publicly Funded Superstition - video
- Hiram
May 17, 2019 at 2:00 PM
- Hiram
May 17, 2019 at 2:00 PM
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Question On Forum Operation 12
- Cassius
June 14, 2019 at 9:10 AM
- Cassius
June 17, 2019 at 5:49 AM
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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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Quick Note Re The Vatican Sayings Forums 1
- Cassius
July 4, 2023 at 9:11 PM
- Cassius
July 4, 2023 at 9:24 PM
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Quiz Feature - Ongoing DIscussion 6
- Cassius
April 5, 2020 at 6:24 AM
- Cassius
April 5, 2020 at 5:09 PM
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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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Reading Recommendations for "Normies"
- Cassius
July 10, 2018 at 9:47 AM
- Cassius
July 10, 2018 at 9:47 AM
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Readings From Lucretius In Latin 12
- Cassius
June 27, 2023 at 7:42 AM
- Cassius
June 29, 2023 at 11:12 AM
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Recent Article on Aristippus in Psychology Today 1
- Joshua
July 5, 2023 at 6:49 PM
- Joshua
July 5, 2023 at 6:51 PM
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Referencing help needed 3
- Diamat
September 26, 2019 at 7:02 AM
- Diamat
September 26, 2019 at 4:57 PM
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Reflections on The End-Of-Year Holidays 3
- Cassius
January 2, 2021 at 4:26 PM
- Cassius
January 3, 2021 at 7:10 AM
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Remember To Join Us For A Skype Call This Sunday 9/1 If You Can! 11
- Cassius
August 30, 2019 at 4:38 PM
- Cassius
September 22, 2019 at 4:22 PM
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Reminder About The "No Politics" Rule At EpicureanFriends
- Cassius
March 31, 2023 at 12:46 PM
- Cassius
March 31, 2023 at 12:46 PM
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Renderings of Epicurean Philosophers by Genevra Catalano (2022-2023) 14
- Twentier
November 16, 2023 at 10:30 AM
- Twentier
November 18, 2023 at 5:34 PM
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Report on the 10th Panhellenic Symposium of Epicurean Philosophy, February 8-9, 2020, Cultural Center of Pallini, Athens, Greece (By Christos Yapijakis) 4
- Cassius
February 19, 2020 at 6:08 PM
- Cassius
February 22, 2020 at 10:41 AM
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Request For Assistance -- Public Domain Graphics! 4
- Cassius
February 24, 2019 at 4:27 PM
- Cassius
February 24, 2019 at 5:36 PM
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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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Research Question: DeLattre's "Les Epicuriens" And the State of Publication of Herculaneum Texts
- Cassius
May 25, 2019 at 6:32 PM
- Cassius
May 25, 2019 at 6:32 PM
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Responses to Nussbaum's Criticism That Epicureanism Is Not A Real Philosophy; That Epicureanism Numbs Intellect And Critical Thinking 1
- Cassius
April 12, 2018 at 6:18 AM
- Cassius
April 12, 2018 at 6:37 AM
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Richard Dawkins Channels The Spirit of Epicurus!
- Cassius
December 16, 2019 at 10:08 PM
- Cassius
December 16, 2019 at 10:08 PM
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Roman Dodecahedrons 2
- Cassius
January 29, 2024 at 10:54 AM
- Cassius
January 30, 2024 at 11:41 AM
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Romantic Materialism, Materialist Romanticism 2
- Mathitis Kipouros
October 31, 2021 at 10:10 AM
- Mathitis Kipouros
October 31, 2021 at 12:34 PM
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Scheduling of Online Activities As Of January 2020 15
- Cassius
January 20, 2020 at 12:11 PM
- Cassius
January 23, 2020 at 1:15 PM
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