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2. Richard Dawkins Channels The Spirit of Epicurus!
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2. Responses to Nussbaum's Criticism That Epicureanism Is Not A Real Philosophy; That Epicureanism Numbs Intellect And Critical Thinking 1
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2. Research Question: DeLattre's "Les Epicuriens" And the State of Publication of Herculaneum Texts
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2. Report on the 10th Panhellenic Symposium of Epicurean Philosophy, February 8-9, 2020, Cultural Center of Pallini, Athens, Greece (By Christos Yapijakis) 4
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2. Repackaged Epicureanism from a Christian writer? 11
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2. Renderings of Epicurean Philosophers by Genevra Catalano (2022-2023) 14
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2. Reminder About The "No Politics" Rule At EpicureanFriends
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2. Referencing help needed 3
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2. Reading Recommendations for "Normies"
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2. Rarely read writer DeCasseres on Epicurus' great discovery 8
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2. Quiz Feature - Ongoing DIscussion 6
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2. Quick Note Re The Vatican Sayings Forums 1
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2. Questions Re PD 26 - PD30 From the 10/5/22 Zoom 27
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2. Publicly Funded Superstition - video
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2. Prolepsis / Anticipations As Epicurus' Answer to the MENO Problem 34
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2. Probably One Of The Worst Ideas/Questions I Have Ever Posed: "Is There Any Community-Building Opportunity in The On-Line Game Zero AD?" 13
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2. Principles of Interpretation - (Observation by Collingwood) 2
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2. Epicurean Philosophy In Relation To Gulags and the Rack 6
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2. Epicurean philosophy skewing toward elements of Stoicism in the time of Lucretius?? 9
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