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    2. Multiple Components Comprise the Epicurean Life 30

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    2. New Epicurean Book is actually a critique of Nussbaum 30

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    2. New Religious Landscape Study from Pew Research 29

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    2. Discussion of New Substack Article: "A Gate To Be Burst: Absence of Pain" 29

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    2. Managing Expectations In The Study of Epicurus 28

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    2. Questions Re PD 26 - PD30 From the 10/5/22 Zoom 27

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    2. Tim O'Keefe's "Epicurean Guide To Christmas" (An Article And Responses) 27

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    2. Would An Epicurean Hook Himself Up To An "Experience Machine" or a "Pleasure Machine" If Possible? 27

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    2. Perfect As The Enemy of The Good 25

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    2. On Use Of The Term Apikoros / Apiqoros / Bikouros Against Epicureans 25

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    2. Forward vs Backward Momentum 23

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    2. Is 'happiness' a proper translation of the term eudaimonia? 23

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    2. Five Doses That Trump Four Every Time - The "Five-Part Cure" 23

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    2. Joshua's "Only The Beginning" Observation 23

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    2. Seneca's On Happiness versus La Mettrie's Anti-Seneca 23

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    2. Against the Physicists / Physicians 23

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    2. Pleasure and Reality 23

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    2. Ten (10) commandments 22

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    2. On Ice Cream And Epicurean Philosophy 21

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    2. Are the Gods Totally Painless? Does Calling Us To "Continuous Pleasure" Mean Totally Painless? 21

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    2. Epicurus' Public Domain Translations - All At Once In One Place 20

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    2. A Challenge To Epicurean Thinking Grounded in Epistemology and Physics 20

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    2. Epicurean philosophy skewing toward elements of Stoicism in the time of Lucretius?? 9

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    2. Preconceptions and PD24 42

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    2. The Use of Negation in Epicurean Philosophy Concepts 47

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