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Featured Threads - If You Are New Here, Check Out Our "Featured Threads" For Discussions Of Particular Interest!
- Kalosyni
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Empedocles Document Found
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Entertaining Example of Epicurus' Reasons for Rejecting Divination (Nick Of Time - A Short Story Featuring William Shatner) 1
- Cassius
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Epicurean Blog 3
- Eoghan Gardiner
May 7, 2018 at 2:21 PM
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Epicurean Change 13
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April 8, 2022 at 8:39 AM
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Epicurean Cites on The Issue of Impossibiity of Pure Happiness While Accepting Religious Fables
- Cassius
April 9, 2019 at 2:46 PM
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Epicurean Education and the Rhetoric of Concern, by Sean McConnell 1
- Hiram
August 8, 2019 at 10:03 AM
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Epicurean Emporium 7
- Eikadistes
January 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Epicurean Ethics And the Coronavirus Episode - A Starting Point 3
- Cassius
April 29, 2020 at 8:02 AM
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Epicurean Festival - Italy - Michele Pinto, Coordinator (Fri, Aug 30th 2019, 8:00 am - Sun, Sep 1st 2019, 8:00 pm) 10
- Cassius
August 25, 2019 at 11:17 AM
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Epicurean Instagram post
- Don
June 12, 2021 at 7:41 AM
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Epicurean kèpos in Autun - France. 7
- Marco
January 12, 2022 at 5:33 AM
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Epicurean nautical references, allusions, and metaphors in the texts 17
- Don
August 25, 2022 at 5:43 PM
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Epicurean Or Not? "Fiat Justitia ruat caelo" (Let Justice be done though the sky falls) 6
- Cassius
May 31, 2019 at 7:10 PM
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Epicurean Philosophical Tenets That We Can Know With Certainty 1
- Kalosyni
February 22, 2024 at 11:05 AM
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Epicurean Philosophy And Boomer Word Associations ("Feeling No Pain") 3
- Cassius
October 24, 2024 at 9:35 AM
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Epicurean Philosophy In Relation To Gulags and the Rack 6
- Cassius
April 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Epicurean Self-Sufficiency - Video Of A Short Address from the 2013 Promethea Conference in Greece - By George Kaplanis
- Cassius
March 27, 2019 at 8:32 AM
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Epicurean Tattoos 6
- Eikadistes
June 20, 2024 at 7:59 AM
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Epicurean Thoughts On Taking Action
- Cassius
March 29, 2019 at 9:51 AM
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Epicurean Warnings Against Misrepresentation (Intentional or Negligent) In Philosophy 2
- Cassius
January 14, 2024 at 8:37 AM
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EpicureanFriends Participants Reading List Report 2
- Cassius
August 25, 2021 at 1:56 PM
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EpicureanFriends Site Glitches 10
- Cassius
September 3, 2019 at 9:54 AM
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Epicureanism and Scientific Debates Epicurean Tradition and its Ancient Reception - New (2023) Collection of Commentaries 7
- Matteng
October 29, 2024 at 4:10 PM
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Epicureanism and the Enjoyment of True Pleasures 2
- Hiram
August 7, 2019 at 9:32 AM
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Epicureanism in the Imperial Age 4
- michelepinto
September 25, 2019 at 9:10 AM
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EPICUREANISM: Ancient Answers to Modern Questions" | Marc Nelson 12
- Hiram
October 8, 2019 at 7:39 AM
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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
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Epicureans on Squandering Life 4
- Hiram
February 26, 2019 at 10:15 AM
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Epicurus "On Nature" - Book 25: On Moral Development
- Hiram
July 8, 2019 at 10:13 AM
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Epicurus and the Art of Land Surveying 2
- Joshua
January 23, 2020 at 10:47 PM
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Did Epicurus Intend To Commit Suicide By Drinking Unmixed Wine On His Last Day? 12
- Bryan
April 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM - General Discussion
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Epicurean Philosophy In Relation To Gulags and the Rack 6
- Cassius
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The “Absence of Pain” Problem 11
- Rolf
April 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM - General Discussion
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Epicurean philosophy skewing toward elements of Stoicism in the time of Lucretius?? 9
- Kalosyni
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Preconceptions and PD24 42
- Eikadistes
December 14, 2021 at 5:50 PM - General Discussion
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