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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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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
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March 17, 2024 at 7:30 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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Opportunities for Activism And Collaboration Here At EpicureanFriends.com 33
- Cassius
April 2, 2020 at 9:59 AM
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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"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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Addition of the "Lexicon" Feature of the Forum 3
- Cassius
November 1, 2020 at 5:58 AM
- Cassius
November 1, 2020 at 8:35 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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Access to conversation denied 5
- Godfrey
September 8, 2019 at 5:54 PM
- Godfrey
September 9, 2019 at 1:17 PM
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A. Le Grand's Divine Epicurus 1
- Don
June 19, 2021 at 6:23 AM
- Don
June 19, 2021 at 7:17 AM
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A Worthwhile Podcast Episode Entitled: " Hume, The Epicureans, And the Origins of Liberalism" 1
- Cassius
April 29, 2024 at 2:30 PM
- Cassius
May 1, 2024 at 10:46 AM
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A Word To The Wise About Arguments 2
- Cassius
January 13, 2018 at 9:45 PM
- Cassius
January 14, 2018 at 9:14 AM
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A Word About Words 4
- Pacatus
December 9, 2022 at 1:13 PM
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December 9, 2022 at 9:23 PM
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A Welcome Sign From Shahab
- Cassius
October 28, 2020 at 2:13 PM
- Cassius
October 28, 2020 at 2:13 PM
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A Veiled Reference to Epicurus in Robert Heinlein? 2
- Joshua
June 29, 2019 at 12:32 PM
- Joshua
July 1, 2019 at 9:29 AM
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A Useful Analogy: The Preflight Checklist 18
- Cassius
September 15, 2019 at 9:14 AM
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September 28, 2019 at 4:15 AM
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A thought on duty to the whole world, and why virtue must be an instrument to happiness. 9
- smoothiekiwi
January 15, 2022 at 4:38 PM
- smoothiekiwi
January 16, 2022 at 5:03 PM
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A Teachable Moment with Hurricane Dorian
- Hiram
September 4, 2019 at 11:46 AM
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September 4, 2019 at 11:46 AM
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A Special Night in Iowa 1
- Joshua
August 12, 2021 at 9:15 PM
- Joshua
August 12, 2021 at 9:18 PM
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A Sobering Look at Google Ngrams 4
- Joshua
February 18, 2021 at 10:32 PM
- Joshua
February 19, 2021 at 8:40 AM
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A Sense of Guilt Among the Early Greeks? (C. S. Lewis)
- Joshua
August 27, 2023 at 12:29 AM
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August 27, 2023 at 12:29 AM
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A Seasonal Poem - "Fake News"
- Cassius
December 17, 2017 at 8:06 AM
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December 17, 2017 at 8:06 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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A sage “masters wealth” - Epicurus 1
- Hiram
July 10, 2019 at 1:05 PM
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July 10, 2019 at 2:36 PM
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A Reddit Exchange With Comments 8
- Cassius
September 28, 2019 at 8:02 PM
- Cassius
September 30, 2019 at 9:14 AM
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A Quote from Hobbes' "Leviathan" 6
- Cassius
August 13, 2019 at 5:24 AM
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August 15, 2019 at 10:38 AM
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A Quick And Dirty Summary Based On Lucretius:
- Cassius
August 29, 2019 at 3:04 PM
- Cassius
August 29, 2019 at 3:04 PM
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A Question of Lives - Which Is To Be Preferred?
- Cassius
February 24, 2018 at 10:26 AM
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February 24, 2018 at 10:26 AM
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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
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December 30, 2023 at 6:16 PM
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A Proposal To Set Up An Audio Question / Answer Program
- Cassius
January 4, 2019 at 1:14 PM
- Cassius
January 4, 2019 at 1:14 PM
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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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A Pleasant Life instead of Pleasure 7
- EricR
August 4, 2023 at 8:14 AM
- EricR
August 5, 2023 at 8:27 PM
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A Place to Start
- Cassius
January 21, 2019 at 4:41 PM
- Cassius
January 21, 2019 at 4:41 PM
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A Passage That Seems Particularly Appropriate About Now 5
- Cassius
June 19, 2020 at 7:55 AM
- Cassius
June 19, 2020 at 5:07 PM
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A painting from Daniel Op De Beeck 2
- Marco
June 11, 2022 at 1:07 AM
- Marco
June 11, 2022 at 12:42 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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