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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sweetness and Light 9
- Joshua
May 30, 2019 at 9:35 AM
- Joshua
June 4, 2019 at 3:34 PM
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What was the geographical reach of Ancient Epicurean thought? 8
- Matt
February 9, 2019 at 5:30 PM
- Matt
February 10, 2019 at 12:20 PM
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Marshal de Saint Evremond on Epicurus 8
- Cassius
December 10, 2018 at 10:59 AM
- Cassius
December 17, 2018 at 8:31 AM
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New Audio Version of Torquatus' Presentation of Epicurean Ethics - Read By Joshua 8
- Cassius
November 26, 2021 at 10:02 PM
- Cassius
January 27, 2022 at 9:03 AM
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Musings on A Quick Statement of "What It Means to Be An Epicurean" 9
- Cassius
July 13, 2020 at 10:57 PM
- Cassius
July 16, 2020 at 4:34 PM
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Poem - Abonoteichus 6
- Joshua
July 26, 2019 at 8:14 PM
- Joshua
July 29, 2019 at 10:18 AM
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Who are your Persians? 8
- Matt
February 5, 2019 at 10:20 AM
- Matt
February 22, 2019 at 3:19 PM
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Happy Twentieth of October, 2019: What Would A Local Epicurean Organization Look Like? 9
- Cassius
October 19, 2019 at 9:26 PM
- Cassius
October 21, 2019 at 4:49 PM
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Athens and the Open Library 8
- Joshua
October 20, 2019 at 6:18 PM
- Joshua
March 24, 2020 at 2:06 PM
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Modern Science Meets the Canon 8
- Godfrey
June 2, 2019 at 8:44 PM
- Godfrey
June 4, 2019 at 3:33 PM
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How Would You Answer Someone New Who Asked You: "What Is Epicurean Philosophy All About?" 4
- Cassius
September 1, 2019 at 8:08 AM
- Cassius
September 1, 2019 at 10:39 AM
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How has the word epicurean come to mean excess? 22
- ThinkingCat
May 13, 2023 at 9:24 AM
- ThinkingCat
May 19, 2023 at 6:50 PM
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Metaphorically Picturing Epicurean Philosophy 31
- Cassius
January 10, 2023 at 8:32 AM
- Cassius
January 12, 2023 at 1:27 PM
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How are Epicurean things in Italy, Michele? 8
- Cassius
October 17, 2019 at 7:30 AM
- Cassius
October 19, 2019 at 9:13 AM
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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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Discussion on Ataraxia: freedom from anxiety....What is it?...How can we attain it in a world mad with chaos and conflict? 24
- Raphael Raul
December 1, 2023 at 11:14 AM
- Raphael Raul
February 22, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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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
- Cassius
October 24, 2021 at 11:31 AM
- Cassius
October 24, 2021 at 6:59 PM
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Atlantic Article: There are two kinds of happy people 10
- Don
January 28, 2021 at 10:54 PM
- Don
June 25, 2022 at 11:17 AM
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Michel de Montaigne on pleasure 9
- Godfrey
April 30, 2020 at 6:19 PM
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May 1, 2020 at 5:20 PM
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The Kind of Ring I'd Like to See 8
- Joshua
August 5, 2019 at 9:47 AM
- Joshua
August 6, 2019 at 7:51 AM
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Does Baloo Speak for Epicurus In the Song "Bare Necessities" from "The Jungle Book" Movie? 5
- Cassius
February 18, 2020 at 8:42 AM
- Cassius
February 18, 2020 at 2:18 PM
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Discussion of Article: "Political Division In The Promotion of Epicurean Philosophy: A Prescription For Disaster" 6
- Cassius
September 28, 2019 at 8:54 AM
- Cassius
September 29, 2019 at 7:42 PM
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New Music Created by Michele Pinto and Andrea Celidoni - Free As Epicurus - The Epicurus Rap! 8
- Cassius
August 10, 2020 at 10:20 AM
- Cassius
August 13, 2020 at 9:05 AM
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Epicureans on Squandering Life 4
- Hiram
February 26, 2019 at 10:15 AM
- Hiram
February 27, 2019 at 9:55 AM
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Epicureanism – Busts of Venus, Athena, Epicurus 6
- Hiram
March 30, 2019 at 10:10 AM
- Hiram
March 31, 2019 at 3:23 PM
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Poem - Hermarchus 6
- Joshua
July 3, 2019 at 10:12 AM
- Joshua
July 5, 2019 at 1:18 PM
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Epicurean Communities of the Ancient World 3
- Twentier
June 6, 2022 at 4:34 PM
- Twentier
June 8, 2022 at 12:25 PM
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Concerning religiosity 5
- Cassius
February 22, 2019 at 7:28 AM
- Cassius
February 22, 2019 at 4:23 PM
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Mental pleasure/pain more intense and longer lasting than physical pleasure/pain 33
- frank1syl
December 5, 2023 at 11:15 AM
- frank1syl
December 13, 2023 at 10:19 PM
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Participants' Epicurean Book and Artifact Collections 16
- Cassius
January 17, 2022 at 9:16 AM
- Cassius
January 21, 2022 at 7:42 AM
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