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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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Updated TimeTable of the Epicurean World 25
- Cassius
November 4, 2023 at 3:45 PM
- Cassius
November 6, 2023 at 8:11 PM
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Major (In the Sense of Major Publication) Review of Emily Austin's "Living for Pleasure" 26
- Cassius
January 26, 2023 at 7:45 AM
- Cassius
March 12, 2023 at 4:24 PM
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Would An Epicurean Hook Himself Up To An "Experience Machine" or a "Pleasure Machine" If Possible? 27
- Cassius
March 23, 2020 at 2:05 AM
- Cassius
January 8, 2022 at 4:23 PM
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Tim O'Keefe's "Epicurean Guide To Christmas" (An Article And Responses) 27
- Cassius
December 29, 2021 at 2:28 PM
- Cassius
December 30, 2021 at 10:21 AM
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Questions Re PD 26 - PD30 From the 10/5/22 Zoom 27
- Cassius
October 6, 2022 at 8:30 AM
- Cassius
October 10, 2022 at 6:40 AM
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Discussion of New Substack Article: "A Gate To Be Burst: Absence of Pain" 27
- Cassius
February 11, 2024 at 5:57 PM
- Cassius
February 13, 2024 at 12:29 AM
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Managing Expectations In The Study of Epicurus 28
- Cassius
May 8, 2020 at 10:36 AM
- Cassius
May 13, 2020 at 8:45 PM
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We Need A Game Show With A Lightning Round Question: "Happiness or Pleasure? - Why?" 28
- Cassius
February 2, 2023 at 8:16 PM
- Cassius
February 5, 2023 at 3:43 PM
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What holds me back from embracing EP 29
- EricR
March 1, 2022 at 11:03 AM
- EricR
July 20, 2022 at 8:09 PM
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The Definitive "Chrysippus' Hand Argument" Thread 29
- Cassius
April 18, 2023 at 8:47 PM
- Cassius
April 24, 2023 at 1:17 PM
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If Death Is Nothing To Us, Then Life Is Everything to Us 29
- Cassius
October 7, 2023 at 12:06 AM
- Cassius
October 7, 2023 at 8:22 PM
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New Epicurean Book is actually a critique of Nussbaum 30
- Hiram
September 20, 2019 at 4:36 PM
- Hiram
September 23, 2019 at 6:56 PM
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Multiple Components Comprise the Epicurean Life 30
- Kalosyni
October 21, 2021 at 7:59 PM
- Kalosyni
October 23, 2021 at 1:53 PM
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Planning for Upcoming Voice Chats on DeWitt's Epicurus and His Philosophy 31
- Cassius
April 7, 2018 at 11:58 AM
- Cassius
June 11, 2019 at 3:00 PM
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Metaphorically Picturing Epicurean Philosophy 31
- Cassius
January 10, 2023 at 8:32 AM
- Cassius
January 12, 2023 at 1:27 PM
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Best Recent Version of Diogenes Laertius? 32
- Cassius
August 29, 2021 at 7:52 PM
- Cassius
September 6, 2021 at 9:45 AM
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Imagery On The Interplay Between "Pursue Pleasure" and 'Avoid Pain" 33
- Cassius
March 28, 2023 at 9:09 AM
- Cassius
March 31, 2023 at 10:10 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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[Toby Sherman's Ancient Guide To Modern Well-being] That article I mentioned at the on line Wednesday 8/17 meeting 34
- kochiekoch
August 18, 2022 at 6:17 AM
- kochiekoch
August 23, 2022 at 3:29 PM
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Who to believe? 34
- ThinkingCat
May 27, 2023 at 10:32 AM
- ThinkingCat
June 8, 2023 at 5:10 PM
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To What Extent, If Any, Does Modern Physics Invalidate Epicurean Philosophy? 35
- Cassius
August 15, 2020 at 5:39 AM
- Cassius
August 16, 2020 at 5:06 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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Alt-tech outreach 36
- Matthaios
February 7, 2021 at 9:22 PM
- Matthaios
April 26, 2021 at 12:19 PM
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What Epicurus Offers To The Modern World As Of April, 2024? 36
- Cassius
April 24, 2024 at 1:29 PM
- Cassius
May 9, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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Technology Question - How Best To Create "Video" With Speech Matched To Scrolling Text 37
- Cassius
October 10, 2019 at 4:08 PM
- Cassius
October 12, 2019 at 4:21 AM
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Coronavirus - Epicurean World Report! 37
- Cassius
March 13, 2020 at 8:26 AM
- Cassius
March 24, 2020 at 10:22 AM
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Preconceptions and PD24 39
- Twentier
December 14, 2021 at 5:50 PM
- Twentier
February 9, 2022 at 9:41 PM
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New Christos Yapijakis Article: "The Philosophical Management of Stress" 39
- Cassius
January 6, 2023 at 2:37 PM
- Cassius
January 8, 2023 at 7:05 PM
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As To The Three Legs Of The Canon (Sensations, Feelings, Anticipations) Is it Possible to Experience (Receive Data?) From One Without The Others? 39
- Cassius
February 5, 2023 at 4:23 PM
- Cassius
February 15, 2023 at 2:04 PM
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What Are The Possible Reasons (And Of These, The Most Likely) Why The List of 40 Principal Doctrines Does Not Feature A Statement Explicitly Stating Pleasure To Be The Goal of Life? 39
- Cassius
February 13, 2023 at 6:19 AM
- Cassius
February 14, 2023 at 3:15 PM
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