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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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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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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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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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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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"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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"Living Life Full Measure" as an Epicurean Metaphor 3
- Cassius
May 14, 2023 at 1:40 PM
- Cassius
May 15, 2023 at 2:28 PM
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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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"For Life Has No Terrors . . . " 15
- Cassius
November 11, 2021 at 8:52 AM
- Cassius
November 14, 2021 at 5:46 AM
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"Filling The Gas Tank of Life"
- Cassius
March 21, 2019 at 2:41 PM
- Cassius
March 21, 2019 at 2:41 PM
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"Epicurus, Father of the Enlightenment" Article Review 9
- Mathitis Kipouros
December 19, 2022 at 11:07 AM
- Mathitis Kipouros
December 20, 2022 at 10:32 AM
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"Epicurean Philosphy or Epicureanism" - An Article By Dimitris Atlas
- Cassius
June 17, 2019 at 7:59 AM
- Cassius
June 17, 2019 at 7:59 AM
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"Epicurean Issues" By Our Friend Michele Pinto 3
- Cassius
November 22, 2022 at 6:12 AM
- Cassius
November 22, 2022 at 9:20 AM
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"Being," "Becoming," and Epicurus
- Cassius
July 30, 2019 at 9:06 AM
- Cassius
July 30, 2019 at 9:06 AM
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"All Models Are Wrong, But Some Are Useful" 2
- Cassius
January 21, 2024 at 11:21 AM
- Cassius
January 26, 2024 at 6:58 PM
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"All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation"
- Cassius
September 2, 2023 at 12:29 PM
- Cassius
September 2, 2023 at 12:29 PM
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"AI" Images 3
- Twentier
February 16, 2023 at 9:26 AM
- Twentier
February 17, 2023 at 11:12 AM
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"A Lie And An Impossibility" - Lucian - "Alexander the Oracle Monger" 1
- Cassius
April 28, 2019 at 10:38 AM
- Cassius
April 28, 2019 at 1:57 PM
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