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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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Fortune cookie 1
- Don
January 27, 2023 at 11:49 PM
- Don
January 28, 2023 at 2:21 PM
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Thanks y'all for this forum and the podcast 2
- Randall Moose
May 20, 2023 at 4:45 AM
- Randall Moose
May 20, 2023 at 8:01 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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Pliny the Elder's Villa Found?
- kochiekoch
February 5, 2024 at 4:37 PM
- kochiekoch
February 5, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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The Last Words of Charles Darwin 8
- Joshua
April 19, 2022 at 10:53 PM
- Joshua
May 4, 2022 at 9:42 PM
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Great Post From Holly At Facebook Crediting Motivation From "Living For Pleasure"
- Cassius
January 20, 2023 at 11:54 AM
- Cassius
January 20, 2023 at 11:54 AM
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Participation Level February 2023
- Cassius
February 21, 2023 at 10:52 AM
- Cassius
February 21, 2023 at 10:52 AM
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Epicurean Philosophy for the Sensitive Soul 4
- Kalosyni
June 2, 2023 at 3:25 PM
- Kalosyni
July 12, 2023 at 11:25 AM
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The Illusory Walls of Safety
- Twentier
August 21, 2023 at 3:03 PM
- Twentier
August 21, 2023 at 3:03 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 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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Epicurean Change 13
- Matt
April 8, 2022 at 8:39 AM
- Matt
April 9, 2022 at 3:08 PM
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Renderings of Epicurean Philosophers by Genevra Catalano (2022-2023) 14
- Twentier
November 16, 2023 at 10:30 AM
- Twentier
November 18, 2023 at 5:34 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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Happy Thanksgiving! 10
- Don
November 23, 2023 at 9:55 AM
- Don
November 25, 2023 at 4:52 AM
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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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The Passing of Prof. Daniel Dennett 2
- Joshua
April 19, 2024 at 6:20 PM
- Joshua
April 25, 2024 at 8:13 AM
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