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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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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? 47
- burninglights
November 17, 2023 at 8:20 PM
- burninglights
March 17, 2024 at 7:30 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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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
- Cassius
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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In Memoriam T. Lucretii Cari 6
- Joshua
October 15, 2023 at 2:35 PM
- Joshua
October 31, 2023 at 9:03 AM
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More Sluething -This Time Against Cicero 1
- Cassius
October 3, 2022 at 8:38 PM
- Cassius
October 3, 2022 at 8:48 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving 2018
- Cassius
November 22, 2018 at 9:52 AM
- Cassius
November 22, 2018 at 9:52 AM
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Publicly Funded Superstition - video
- Hiram
May 17, 2019 at 2:00 PM
- Hiram
May 17, 2019 at 2:00 PM
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Another New Book On Epicurus Coming - Dr Ben Gazur - "Epicurus And His Influence On History" 4
- Cassius
January 13, 2023 at 7:53 PM
- Cassius
January 14, 2023 at 7:30 PM
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Philodemus On the Senses 8
- Bryan
January 30, 2024 at 12:01 AM
- Bryan
February 1, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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A Proposal To Set Up An Audio Question / Answer Program
- Cassius
January 4, 2019 at 1:14 PM
- Cassius
January 4, 2019 at 1:14 PM
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Emily Austin Interview With LucretiusToday Now Available on Youtube
- Cassius
February 4, 2023 at 4:33 PM
- Cassius
February 4, 2023 at 4:33 PM
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Was Shakespeare an Epicurean? 6
- Cyrano
January 10, 2024 at 7:59 PM
- Cyrano
January 26, 2024 at 9:06 PM
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Discussion of the Article "On Pleasure vs Tranquility - A Dialogue With Southampton"
- Cassius
September 26, 2019 at 4:38 PM
- Cassius
September 26, 2019 at 4:38 PM
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Julie Giovacchini - "The Tetrapharmakos, Authentic Formula Or Simplistic Summary Of Epicurean Ethics?" 5
- Don
August 3, 2023 at 1:35 PM
- Don
August 4, 2023 at 2:33 PM
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The Temple of Venus Genetrix 5
- Joshua
August 28, 2023 at 9:58 PM
- Joshua
August 29, 2023 at 10:06 AM
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A Landing Similar To That Which Has Probably Been Done Innumerable Times Before
- Cassius
January 13, 2019 at 5:45 PM
- Cassius
January 13, 2019 at 5:45 PM
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International Day of Friendship
- Cassius
July 30, 2019 at 2:37 PM
- Cassius
July 30, 2019 at 2:37 PM
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How The Christians Wiped Out Epicureanism
- Hiram
July 24, 2019 at 9:43 AM
- Hiram
July 24, 2019 at 9:43 AM
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Fortune cookie 1
- Don
January 27, 2023 at 11:49 PM
- Don
January 28, 2023 at 2:21 PM
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Epicurus' Letter to Menoeceus: "We Do Not Mean....." - Sentence Structure Analysis
- Cassius
July 1, 2019 at 8:37 AM
- Cassius
July 1, 2019 at 8:37 AM
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Phantasmatic Shakespeare, by Suparna Roychoudhury
- Joshua
June 30, 2022 at 4:50 PM
- Joshua
June 30, 2022 at 4:50 PM
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Epicurean Thoughts On Taking Action
- Cassius
March 29, 2019 at 9:51 AM
- Cassius
March 29, 2019 at 9:51 AM
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Chatgpt on how to live the Epicurean life in todays society... overall not great 5
- Eoghan Gardiner
October 23, 2023 at 10:39 AM
- Eoghan Gardiner
October 24, 2023 at 6:05 AM
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Forum Reorganization Update - Epicurean Self-Improvement 1
- Cassius
January 16, 2023 at 2:35 PM
- Cassius
January 17, 2023 at 11:24 AM
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List of Personal Websites of Regular EpicureanFriends Participants
- Cassius
April 5, 2021 at 8:23 AM
- Cassius
April 5, 2021 at 8:23 AM
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Brutus' Appeal to Fate? (A Note to Analyze This At Some Point In the Future) 2
- Cassius
October 25, 2021 at 4:07 PM
- Cassius
October 25, 2021 at 5:49 PM
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Site Usage Feedback - February 2023 3
- Cassius
February 16, 2023 at 5:00 PM
- Cassius
February 16, 2023 at 5:44 PM
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Setting Lucretius to Music - An Example from Catullus
- Cassius
August 3, 2018 at 9:20 AM
- Cassius
August 3, 2018 at 9:20 AM
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On Epicurean Economics
- Hiram
February 20, 2019 at 8:35 AM
- Hiram
February 20, 2019 at 8:35 AM
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The Importance of the Sense of Smell 1
- Mathitis Kipouros
June 19, 2022 at 12:25 AM
- Mathitis Kipouros
June 19, 2022 at 8:22 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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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Arrakis 1
- Joshua
September 18, 2022 at 10:05 PM
- Joshua
September 19, 2022 at 4:44 AM
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A Image Theme For Consideration: Images From A Parallel World That Took A Better Turn 2000 Years Ago 6
- Cassius
December 23, 2023 at 2:36 PM
- Cassius
December 24, 2023 at 8:04 AM
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