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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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New Users Please Read Here First
- Cassius
November 22, 2019 at 2:20 PM
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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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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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"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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The dark Epicureanism in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 7
- Stan85
May 24, 2018 at 10:57 PM
- Stan85
December 2, 2023 at 6:27 AM
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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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Mental pleasure/pain more intense and longer lasting than physical pleasure/pain 33
- frank1syl
December 5, 2023 at 11:15 AM
- frank1syl
December 13, 2023 at 10:19 PM
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Fundamental Issues In Hedonism 15
- BrainToBeing
December 10, 2023 at 8:18 AM
- BrainToBeing
December 14, 2023 at 9:52 AM
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French (Burlamaqui and Rousseau) and German (D'Holbach) Followers of Epicurus (?) 1
- Cassius
December 16, 2023 at 8:00 AM
- Cassius
December 16, 2023 at 2:44 PM
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A New YouTube Channel Introduction 2
- Kalosyni
December 11, 2023 at 7:43 PM
- Kalosyni
December 19, 2023 at 5:40 PM
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Happy Holidays to all our Members, Friends and Visitors! 1
- Kalosyni
December 23, 2023 at 5:45 PM
- Kalosyni
December 23, 2023 at 8:09 PM
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A Image Theme For Consideration: Images From A Parallel World That Took A Better Turn 2000 Years Ago 6
- Cassius
December 23, 2023 at 2:36 PM
- Cassius
December 24, 2023 at 8:04 AM
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"Issues Worth Fighting Over During Holiday Meals" - An Epicurean List 2
- Cassius
December 22, 2023 at 1:29 PM
- Cassius
December 24, 2023 at 3:23 PM
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The True Scale of Atoms 14
- Don
December 23, 2023 at 10:26 PM
- Don
December 26, 2023 at 12:03 PM
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THE HEDONICON (or The Holy Book of Epicurus) 9
- Twentier
November 20, 2023 at 12:44 AM
- Twentier
December 26, 2023 at 2:30 PM
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First Monday Epicurean Philosophy Discussion Hour - Via Zoom 8pm ET (Mon, Jan 1st 2024, 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm)
- Kalosyni
December 29, 2023 at 3:33 PM
- Kalosyni
December 29, 2023 at 3:33 PM
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A psychologist and a functional medicine practitioner discuss happiness, eudaimonia, wellness, free will and more 10
- Godfrey
August 13, 2021 at 1:23 AM
- Godfrey
December 30, 2023 at 6:16 PM
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Paul Thyry (Baron D'Holbach / Mirabaud) - French / German Sympathizer With Some Epicurean Ideas 44
- Cassius
December 16, 2023 at 8:42 AM
- Cassius
December 30, 2023 at 8:10 PM
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Entertaining Example of Epicurus' Reasons for Rejecting Divination (Nick Of Time - A Short Story Featuring William Shatner)
- Cassius
January 9, 2024 at 8:23 PM
- Cassius
January 9, 2024 at 8:23 PM
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Epicurean Food Trivia - Garum? 9
- Cassius
February 23, 2021 at 7:03 AM
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January 10, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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Lucy Hutchinson / Puritans / Cromwell 4
- Cassius
September 3, 2023 at 7:51 AM
- Cassius
January 12, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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For all you Celtic Epicureans! 1
- Don
January 13, 2024 at 5:41 PM
- Don
January 13, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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Epicurean Warnings Against Misrepresentation (Intentional or Negligent) In Philosophy 2
- Cassius
January 14, 2024 at 8:37 AM
- Cassius
January 14, 2024 at 11:16 AM
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Active Research Projects Page
- Cassius
January 15, 2024 at 6:20 PM
- Cassius
January 15, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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Human saliva harming snakes 2
- Bryan
January 17, 2024 at 4:28 PM
- Bryan
January 17, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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What Would Epicurus Think of the Big Bang? 35
- Cyrano
January 13, 2024 at 6:19 PM
- Cyrano
January 17, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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"All Models Are Wrong, But Some Are Useful" 2
- Cassius
January 21, 2024 at 11:21 AM
- Cassius
January 26, 2024 at 6:58 PM
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Was Shakespeare an Epicurean? 6
- Cyrano
January 10, 2024 at 7:59 PM
- Cyrano
January 26, 2024 at 9:06 PM
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My 2024 Resolution: Get A More Accurate Picture of Epicurean Pleasure To The World Rather Than "Tranquility" or "Live Unkown"(Comment on Irish Times Article) 15
- Cassius
January 1, 2024 at 7:03 AM
- Cassius
January 27, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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Lucretius AI 4
- sanantoniogarden
January 28, 2024 at 5:50 PM
- sanantoniogarden
January 29, 2024 at 9:10 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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We're Are Not Just Our Brains! 1
- Don
January 30, 2024 at 9:53 PM
- Don
January 30, 2024 at 11:36 PM
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Philodemus On the Senses 8
- Bryan
January 30, 2024 at 12:01 AM
- Bryan
February 1, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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