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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
- Cassius
November 22, 2019 at 2:20 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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mike Anyayahan's Blog: Epicureanmindset.blogspot.com 17
- Cassius
February 14, 2020 at 9:23 AM
- Cassius
February 24, 2020 at 5:39 AM
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Epicurean nautical references, allusions, and metaphors in the texts 17
- Don
August 25, 2022 at 5:43 PM
- Don
August 28, 2022 at 8:15 AM
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Bookcase project 17
- Martin
October 24, 2022 at 4:46 AM
- Martin
October 25, 2022 at 11:51 AM
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Illustrating Epicurean Ethics 17
- Kalosyni
January 12, 2023 at 3:19 PM
- Kalosyni
January 24, 2023 at 1:56 PM
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A Useful Analogy: The Preflight Checklist 18
- Cassius
September 15, 2019 at 9:14 AM
- Cassius
September 28, 2019 at 4:15 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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The "One and the Many" Question - Do You Fancy You Have Found Treasure of Wisdom In This? Do You Puzzle Your Friends And Even Your Dog About It? What In the World Is Socrates Talking About? 18
- Cassius
October 24, 2021 at 11:31 AM
- Cassius
October 24, 2021 at 6:59 PM
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Consideration of the Attic month and Nate's graphic of the moon on the 20th 18
- Kalosyni
November 30, 2022 at 9:10 AM
- Kalosyni
November 30, 2022 at 10:46 PM
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Epicurean Verse For When You're Feeling... 18
- Twentier
March 6, 2023 at 9:18 AM
- Twentier
March 9, 2023 at 1:48 PM
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Seven Steps With Epicurus - A Slide Presentation 19
- Cassius
April 4, 2023 at 9:31 AM
- Cassius
April 6, 2023 at 9:19 AM
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Scientific Support for Psychological Hedonism 19
- kochiekoch
April 19, 2024 at 1:43 PM
- kochiekoch
April 23, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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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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A Challenge To Epicurean Thinking Grounded in Epistemology and Physics 20
- Cassius
March 12, 2022 at 11:32 AM
- Cassius
March 16, 2022 at 10:23 PM
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Explaining In Summary Form How A Man In Extreme Pain Can Be Said To Be "Happy" 20
- Cassius
April 20, 2024 at 5:38 AM
- Cassius
April 21, 2024 at 8:48 AM
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Are the Gods Totally Painless? Does Calling Us To "Continuous Pleasure" Mean Totally Painless? 21
- Cassius
April 2, 2019 at 8:24 PM
- Cassius
April 5, 2019 at 4:04 PM
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Article on the "Letter to Marcella" by Porphyry 21
- Cassius
April 17, 2019 at 6:40 AM
- Cassius
February 2, 2020 at 8:46 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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Let's Make a List of 1) Major Causes of the Decline of Epicurean Philosophy after Lucretius and 2) The Obstacles to its Revival Through Today 21
- Kalosyni
August 20, 2023 at 1:02 PM
- Kalosyni
August 25, 2023 at 2:20 PM
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Ten (10) commandments 22
- Mathitis Kipouros
November 17, 2022 at 6:55 PM
- Mathitis Kipouros
November 22, 2022 at 1:36 AM
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How has the word epicurean come to mean excess? 22
- ThinkingCat
May 13, 2023 at 9:24 AM
- ThinkingCat
May 19, 2023 at 6:50 PM
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On Use Of The Term Apikoros / Apiqoros / Bikouros Against Epicureans 23
- Cassius
December 17, 2018 at 9:14 AM
- Cassius
April 11, 2024 at 10:35 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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Against the Physicists / Physicians 23
- Hiram
February 1, 2020 at 3:25 PM
- Hiram
February 13, 2020 at 4:55 PM
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Seneca's On Happiness versus La Mettrie's Anti-Seneca 23
- Hiram
February 7, 2020 at 12:28 PM
- Hiram
February 10, 2020 at 1:40 PM
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Joshua's "Only The Beginning" Observation 23
- Cassius
January 8, 2022 at 4:49 PM
- Cassius
January 12, 2022 at 12:50 AM
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Is Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy Compatible with Epicureanism? 23
- Kalosyni
May 3, 2022 at 5:53 PM
- Kalosyni
May 4, 2022 at 10:53 PM
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Five Doses That Trump Four Every Time - The "Five-Part Cure" 23
- Cassius
February 9, 2023 at 9:04 AM
- Cassius
February 10, 2023 at 10:03 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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How To Convert A Neo-Epicurean Into A Classical Epicurean 24
- Cassius
January 15, 2020 at 8:33 AM
- Cassius
May 2, 2020 at 3:00 PM
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