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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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"School Turns to The Teachings of Aristotle...." [to indoctrinate young minds in "virtue"] 3
- Cassius
May 21, 2019 at 8:38 PM
- Cassius
May 23, 2019 at 3:33 PM
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New Forum For Discussion of Movies / Books / Arts Which Pose Questions on Proper Pursuit of Pleasure 1
- Cassius
May 21, 2019 at 10:38 PM
- Cassius
May 22, 2019 at 5:30 AM
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Happy Twentieth of May (2019)! 1
- Cassius
May 20, 2019 at 6:41 AM
- Cassius
May 20, 2019 at 4:37 PM
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On Ice Cream And Epicurean Philosophy 21
- Cassius
May 14, 2019 at 4:34 PM
- Cassius
May 19, 2019 at 3:53 PM
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New Article: "Free Will In Epicurean Philosophy" - by Dimitris Liarmakopoulos
- Cassius
May 18, 2019 at 11:03 AM
- Cassius
May 18, 2019 at 11:03 AM
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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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Nate's "Drake Meme" Graphics 5
- Cassius
May 16, 2019 at 6:16 AM
- Cassius
May 16, 2019 at 8:01 PM
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Embodied Philosophy 4
- Hiram
May 15, 2019 at 4:41 PM
- Hiram
May 16, 2019 at 6:30 AM
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A Practical Question About An Aspect of Politics That Matters
- Cassius
May 15, 2019 at 8:55 PM
- Cassius
May 15, 2019 at 8:55 PM
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Life is Short - Do Stuff that ??? "matters" ??? 2
- Cassius
May 14, 2019 at 1:30 PM
- Cassius
May 15, 2019 at 6:34 AM
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The Institutions of Hellenistic Philosophy, by Phillip Mitsis 1
- Hiram
May 14, 2019 at 6:59 PM
- Hiram
May 15, 2019 at 2:43 AM
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Seven Reasons Why We Need More Epicurean Content Creators 1
- Hiram
May 13, 2019 at 3:28 PM
- Hiram
May 13, 2019 at 4:08 PM
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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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Starting Point Questions
- Cassius
May 9, 2019 at 11:48 AM
- Cassius
May 9, 2019 at 11:48 AM
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Your Regular Reminder That Epicurean Philosophy Is About A Lot More Than Ice Cream And Cookies
- Cassius
May 8, 2019 at 8:48 AM
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May 8, 2019 at 8:48 AM
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Guyau - Interesting Summary Essay - The Morality of Epicurus And Its Relationship To Contemporary Doctrines 5
- Cassius
May 2, 2019 at 1:21 PM
- Cassius
May 2, 2019 at 4:18 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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Author Attempts to Paint Epicureans as Flat-Earthers!
- Hiram
April 30, 2019 at 2:45 PM
- Hiram
April 30, 2019 at 2:45 PM
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"A Lie And An Impossibility" - Lucian - "Alexander the Oracle Monger" 1
- Cassius
April 28, 2019 at 10:38 AM
- Cassius
April 28, 2019 at 1:57 PM
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Is A Fish Dinner A Better Prescription For Pain Than a Treatise of Socrates? 3
- Cassius
April 24, 2019 at 8:56 PM
- Cassius
April 25, 2019 at 8:41 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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The Ethical Implications Of Epicurus' Theology 5
- Hiram
April 2, 2019 at 10:21 AM
- Hiram
April 23, 2019 at 9:54 AM
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Epicurus: Against the Use of Empty Words 17
- Hiram
April 14, 2019 at 4:55 PM
- Hiram
April 16, 2019 at 7:00 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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Pleasure and Reality 23
- Elayne
April 8, 2019 at 9:57 AM
- Elayne
April 14, 2019 at 7:33 AM
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Starting a Garden in the digital era
- Hiram
April 13, 2019 at 4:40 PM
- Hiram
April 13, 2019 at 4:40 PM
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Epicurean Cites on The Issue of Impossibiity of Pure Happiness While Accepting Religious Fables
- Cassius
April 9, 2019 at 2:46 PM
- Cassius
April 9, 2019 at 2:46 PM
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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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A little lesson on death in the supermarket... 3
- bradley.whitley
April 7, 2019 at 7:15 PM
- bradley.whitley
April 7, 2019 at 8:22 PM
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