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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
- burninglights
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
- 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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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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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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A line of questioning on Epicurean Theology 6
- Root304
August 1, 2022 at 12:18 AM
- Root304
August 21, 2022 at 1:04 AM
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A Landing Similar To That Which Has Probably Been Done Innumerable Times Before
- Cassius
January 13, 2019 at 5:45 PM
- Cassius
January 13, 2019 at 5:45 PM
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A Hypothetical To Assist Self-Awareness And Understanding - "Which Shall It Be?" 1
- Cassius
February 3, 2018 at 10:32 AM
- Cassius
February 6, 2018 at 2:24 PM
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A General Thought About The Future Of Epicurean Philosophy - On The Meaning of "Pleasure" 2
- Cassius
April 5, 2018 at 7:50 PM
- Cassius
April 13, 2018 at 12:54 PM
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Arrakis 1
- Joshua
September 18, 2022 at 10:05 PM
- Joshua
September 19, 2022 at 4:44 AM
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A foodie ponders Epicurus the epicurean 6
- Godfrey
February 9, 2020 at 3:38 PM
- Godfrey
February 10, 2020 at 12:34 AM
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A Five Star Presentation of Epicurus
- Cassius
October 28, 2018 at 5:55 PM
- Cassius
October 28, 2018 at 5:55 PM
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A Few Recent Acquisitions 1
- Joshua
August 14, 2019 at 10:58 PM
- Joshua
August 15, 2019 at 9:31 AM
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A Facebook Question On Continental Philosophy and Nate's Response 3
- Cassius
January 22, 2023 at 8:53 AM
- Cassius
January 29, 2023 at 9:06 AM
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A Draft Epicurean Pleasure Maximization Worksheet 8
- Cassius
July 11, 2019 at 10:25 PM
- Cassius
November 4, 2019 at 10:46 AM
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A Discussion on the Epicurean View of Death 3
- profkesarsarwara
March 12, 2020 at 5:16 AM
- profkesarsarwara
March 12, 2020 at 10:00 AM
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A Discussion On Pleasure and the Zero State 5
- Cassius
June 17, 2019 at 2:30 PM
- Cassius
June 26, 2019 at 8:17 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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A Brief Update and on Suggestion of Discord Gardens 1
- A_Gardner
April 25, 2022 at 12:08 PM
- A_Gardner
April 25, 2022 at 4:37 PM
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A "Daily Epicurean"? 16
- A_Gardner
December 26, 2021 at 3:00 PM
- A_Gardner
December 28, 2021 at 4:32 AM
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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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21st Century Epicurean (My Blog) -- An Exploration of Minimalism Leads to Hygge 2
- Kalosyni
October 13, 2022 at 9:13 AM
- Kalosyni
October 13, 2022 at 12:23 PM
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⟐ as the symbol of the philosophy of Epicurus 9
- michelepinto
March 18, 2021 at 11:59 AM
- michelepinto
March 26, 2021 at 9:14 AM
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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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"Uninspiring Responses of the Day" Thread 1
- Cassius
June 1, 2020 at 9:57 AM
- Cassius
June 1, 2020 at 4:29 PM
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"The Rise and Fall of Alexandria", Howard Reid and Justin Pollard 11
- Joshua
November 19, 2020 at 7:26 PM
- Joshua
December 1, 2020 at 6:30 PM
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"The Philosophical Mind" enters the skull of Epicurus 12
- EricR
July 19, 2023 at 9:05 AM
- EricR
July 27, 2023 at 11:12 AM
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"Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum." 2
- Cassius
September 3, 2019 at 11:29 AM
- Cassius
September 3, 2019 at 2:11 PM
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"Take your pleasure seriously" 5
- Don
May 14, 2022 at 8:49 AM
- Don
May 14, 2022 at 10:04 PM
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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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"satisfactory to the epicurean" 2
- Don
October 23, 2021 at 6:56 AM
- Don
October 23, 2021 at 3:36 PM
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"Philosophize This" - A Statement of the Position That Ataraxia is "True Pleasure" and that Epicureans Should Have No Ambitions Other than to Remove the Desire For Ambition - Your Focus is the Complete Removal of Pain - Agree or Disagree?
- Cassius
February 14, 2018 at 8:49 AM
- Cassius
February 14, 2018 at 8:49 AM
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"Natural and Necessary" As A Sliding Scale 3
- Cassius
March 29, 2019 at 7:14 AM
- Cassius
March 29, 2019 at 3:04 PM
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"most useless observation ever made by an ancient Greek philosopher" 6
- Don
June 10, 2022 at 7:17 AM
- Don
June 11, 2022 at 7:23 AM
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"Lucretius Was Right" Graphic
- Cassius
March 24, 2019 at 1:24 PM
- Cassius
March 24, 2019 at 1:24 PM
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