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    2. To Whom Was Epicurus' Last Letter Addressed? 19

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    2. Seven Steps With Epicurus - A Slide Presentation 19

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    2. Why Do We Consider The Absence of Pain To Be Pleasure? 18

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    2. Consideration of the Attic month and Nate's graphic of the moon on the 20th 18

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    2. The "One and the Many" Question - Do You Fancy You Have Found Treasure of Wisdom In This? Do You Puzzle Your Friends And Even Your Dog About It? What In the World Is Socrates Talking About? 18

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    2. News from Italy - you'll love it! 18

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    2. A Useful Analogy: The Preflight Checklist 18

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    2. Eclectic Take on Epicurean Philosophy; Earlier Origin of Some Epicurean Concepts; Method of Loci 17

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    2. Illustrating Epicurean Ethics 17

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    2. Bookcase project 17

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    2. Epicurean nautical references, allusions, and metaphors in the texts 17

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    2. Mike Anyayahan's Blog: Epicureanmindset.blogspot.com 17

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    2. Epicurus: Against the Use of Empty Words 17

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    2. Nothing Ain't Worth Nothing.... 16

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    2. Dr. Frans de Waal, Primatologist 16

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    2. Participants' Epicurean Book and Artifact Collections 16

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    2. A "Daily Epicurean"? 16

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    2. Astronomical Events During the Time of Epicurus 16

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    2. Profile of Past Reading 16

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    2. Please, no dogmatism, no absolute truths 16

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    4. C. Florius Lupus

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    2. Would Epicurus say: "Infinite Time contains no more pain than limited time when the limit of pain is measured by reason?" 15

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    2. Sculptures Damaged at the Vatican 15

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    2. "For Life Has No Terrors . . . " 15

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    2. Translation (A poem) 15

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    2. Scheduling of Online Activities As Of January 2020 15

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    2. Is Self Preservation a Virtue? 15

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    2. Calculus, Minimalism, Consumerism, Finding the Path 15

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    2. Must an Epicurean believe in gods? 14

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    2. Epicurean Philosophy In Relation To Gulags and the Rack 5

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    2. The “Absence of Pain” Problem 11

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    2. Epicurean philosophy skewing toward elements of Stoicism in the time of Lucretius?? 9

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    2. Preconceptions and PD24 42

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    2. The Use of Negation in Epicurean Philosophy Concepts 47

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