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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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So You Want To Learn Ancient Greek Or Latin? 50
- burninglights
November 17, 2023 at 8:20 PM
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May 10, 2024 at 8:05 AM
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Alt-tech outreach 36
- Matthaios
February 7, 2021 at 9:22 PM
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April 26, 2021 at 12:19 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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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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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
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March 24, 2020 at 10:22 AM
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I'm back.....:-) 49
- brett
November 11, 2020 at 7:00 PM
- brett
November 15, 2020 at 3:59 PM
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George Carlin - You have no rights -- reactions? 47
- Hiram
June 27, 2019 at 9:28 AM
- Hiram
September 21, 2020 at 8:02 PM
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Epicurus and the Art of Land Surveying 2
- Joshua
January 23, 2020 at 10:47 PM
- Joshua
January 24, 2020 at 8:22 AM
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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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Feedback From A User 51
- Lee
January 16, 2020 at 11:07 PM
- Lee
February 18, 2020 at 2:15 PM
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Happy 20 with a lot of news from Italy 20
- michelepinto
July 20, 2019 at 3:50 AM
- michelepinto
July 26, 2019 at 5:57 AM
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Perspectives On "Proving" That Pleasure is "The Good" 205
- Todd
December 19, 2022 at 4:34 PM
- Todd
November 28, 2023 at 1:28 PM
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Dead Reddit / The "Isms" Thread 62
- Twentier
November 21, 2019 at 5:09 PM
- Twentier
December 22, 2019 at 7:08 PM
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The Notre Dame Fire 78
- Cassius
April 15, 2019 at 4:57 PM
- Cassius
October 28, 2019 at 10:17 PM
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Epicureans and the Ancient Greek Gods (Imagery of "Gods" / "Gods Among Men") 70
- Matt
February 12, 2019 at 4:01 PM
- Matt
March 27, 2019 at 6:47 PM
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How would Epicurus view "differences from the start of life that are out of our control?" 7
- Cassius
December 6, 2022 at 7:39 PM
- Cassius
December 9, 2022 at 3:22 PM
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Christos Yapijakis and The Garden Of Athens Release "Epicurean Philosophy: An Introduction from The Garden of Athens" 5
- Cassius
January 6, 2023 at 2:01 PM
- Cassius
March 8, 2023 at 4:55 PM
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