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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
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January 26, 2024 at 7:24 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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Compassion in Epicurean Philosophy 42
- Joshua
February 7, 2022 at 12:20 AM
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February 9, 2022 at 9:55 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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Thanks y'all for this forum and the podcast 2
- Randall Moose
May 20, 2023 at 4:45 AM
- Randall Moose
May 20, 2023 at 8:01 AM
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A Discussion on the Epicurean View of Death 3
- profkesarsarwara
March 12, 2020 at 5:16 AM
- profkesarsarwara
March 12, 2020 at 10:00 AM
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Epicureanusm and Romantic Love 11
- Philliped1
June 27, 2022 at 6:52 PM
- Philliped1
July 18, 2022 at 4:42 PM
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The pleasure ideal: Epicurean vs Cyrenaic 3
- Peter Konstans
March 29, 2024 at 2:01 PM
- Peter Konstans
March 31, 2024 at 11:13 AM
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Is 'happiness' a proper translation of the term eudaimonia? 23
- Peter Konstans
March 25, 2024 at 6:35 AM
- Peter Konstans
March 30, 2024 at 10:35 AM
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Erler's view on 'True Epicurean Politics' 7
- Peter Konstans
March 22, 2024 at 2:01 PM
- Peter Konstans
March 24, 2024 at 5:34 AM
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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
- Peter Konstans
March 31, 2024 at 10:51 AM
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A Word About Words 4
- Pacatus
December 9, 2022 at 1:13 PM
- Pacatus
December 9, 2022 at 9:23 PM
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Epicurus in Senigallia - Italy 1
- michelepinto
July 13, 2023 at 5:48 AM
- michelepinto
July 13, 2023 at 6:01 AM
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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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News from Italy - you'll love it! 18
- michelepinto
October 7, 2020 at 3:36 PM
- michelepinto
October 26, 2020 at 9:47 AM
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Announcement: An Award For The Best Thesis On Epicurus 1
- michelepinto
February 17, 2020 at 11:13 AM
- michelepinto
February 17, 2020 at 11:19 AM
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A scholarship for best work about Epicurus 1
- michelepinto
February 7, 2020 at 4:10 AM
- michelepinto
February 7, 2020 at 6:53 AM
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Epicureanism in the Imperial Age 4
- michelepinto
September 25, 2019 at 9:10 AM
- michelepinto
September 28, 2019 at 11:59 AM
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Happy 20 with a lot of news from Italy 20
- michelepinto
July 20, 2019 at 3:50 AM
- michelepinto
July 26, 2019 at 5:57 AM
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I'm not going to translate this 5
- michelepinto
May 11, 2019 at 3:42 PM
- michelepinto
May 11, 2019 at 5:46 PM
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Philosofy in Italy 4
- michelepinto
May 1, 2019 at 4:38 PM
- michelepinto
May 2, 2019 at 6:59 AM
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Will Epicurus and Pirrone save Europe? 4
- michelepinto
April 9, 2019 at 3:48 AM
- michelepinto
April 9, 2019 at 5:45 AM
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Please, no dogmatism, no absolute truths 16
- michelepinto
March 31, 2019 at 3:55 PM
- michelepinto
April 24, 2019 at 8:38 PM
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Epicurus' On the nature of things 5
- mcluhan
February 1, 2024 at 1:42 PM
- mcluhan
February 1, 2024 at 11:14 PM
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Happy Twentieth art 7
- Matthaios
June 20, 2021 at 11:32 AM
- Matthaios
June 26, 2021 at 8:54 PM
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Swerve some luck my way. 1
- Matthaios
February 21, 2021 at 7:57 PM
- Matthaios
February 22, 2021 at 5:52 AM
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Alt-tech outreach 36
- Matthaios
February 7, 2021 at 9:22 PM
- Matthaios
April 26, 2021 at 12:19 PM
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Epicurean Change 13
- Matt
April 8, 2022 at 8:39 AM
- Matt
April 9, 2022 at 3:08 PM
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Supernatural and the Senses 63
- Matt
January 13, 2022 at 3:05 PM
- Matt
January 16, 2022 at 9:11 AM
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You Have Been Deceived (Video) 6
- Matt
December 29, 2021 at 8:04 PM
- Matt
December 30, 2021 at 7:32 AM
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Why Parrhesia is Necessary 5
- Matt
December 29, 2021 at 2:06 PM
- Matt
January 7, 2022 at 6:53 AM
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Why I hate Pantheism 6
- Matt
December 27, 2021 at 3:26 PM
- Matt
December 27, 2021 at 4:40 PM
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Natural versus Unnatural 12
- Matt
December 30, 2020 at 8:54 AM
- Matt
January 10, 2021 at 12:33 PM
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Both Sides of the Garden's Walls 6
- Matt
December 23, 2020 at 9:13 AM
- Matt
December 23, 2020 at 9:06 PM
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