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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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"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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Readings From Lucretius In Latin 12
- Cassius
June 27, 2023 at 7:42 AM
- Cassius
June 29, 2023 at 11:12 AM
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Reading Recommendations for "Normies"
- Cassius
July 10, 2018 at 9:47 AM
- Cassius
July 10, 2018 at 9:47 AM
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Rarely read writer DeCasseres on Epicurus' great discovery 8
- EricR
February 27, 2022 at 8:01 AM
- EricR
February 27, 2022 at 4:45 PM
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Quiz Feature - Ongoing DIscussion 6
- Cassius
April 5, 2020 at 6:24 AM
- Cassius
April 5, 2020 at 5:09 PM
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Quick Note Re The Vatican Sayings Forums 1
- Cassius
July 4, 2023 at 9:11 PM
- Cassius
July 4, 2023 at 9:24 PM
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Questions Re PD 26 - PD30 From the 10/5/22 Zoom 27
- Cassius
October 6, 2022 at 8:30 AM
- Cassius
October 10, 2022 at 6:40 AM
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Question On Forum Operation 12
- Cassius
June 14, 2019 at 9:10 AM
- Cassius
June 17, 2019 at 5:49 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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Profile of Past Reading 16
- Cassius
October 21, 2019 at 1:23 PM
- Cassius
November 5, 2019 at 3:37 PM
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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
- Cassius
October 27, 2022 at 7:26 PM
- Cassius
October 28, 2022 at 12:44 PM
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Priorities: How To Rank "Pursuing Pleasure" vs. "Avoiding Pain" 2
- Cassius
February 4, 2019 at 5:10 PM
- Cassius
February 5, 2019 at 5:18 PM
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Principles of Interpretation - (Observation by Collingwood) 2
- Cassius
February 28, 2018 at 1:42 PM
- Cassius
February 28, 2018 at 5:15 PM
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Preparation of a position statement on near-death experiences 2
- Martin
July 5, 2019 at 10:09 AM
- Martin
July 5, 2019 at 4:09 PM
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Preconceptions and PD24 39
- Twentier
December 14, 2021 at 5:50 PM
- Twentier
February 9, 2022 at 9:41 PM
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Post-Philippi Troubles in The Ancient Epicurean World 7
- Cassius
December 15, 2022 at 1:04 PM
- Cassius
December 15, 2022 at 7:56 PM
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Polyaenus quotes 3
- Hiram
July 10, 2019 at 5:45 PM
- Hiram
July 10, 2019 at 6:57 PM
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Poll: Confirm Or Deny This Article About Non-Believers And Pets: Do You Have Dog(s), Cat(s), Both, Neither?
- Cassius
January 7, 2020 at 12:58 PM
- Cassius
January 7, 2020 at 12:58 PM
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Poem - To Boccaccio 3
- Joshua
April 21, 2020 at 9:14 AM
- Joshua
April 21, 2020 at 10:42 AM
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Poem - The Heron 2
- Joshua
September 9, 2020 at 5:45 PM
- Joshua
September 9, 2020 at 6:29 PM
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Poem - Snow in Montana 2
- Joshua
November 30, 2019 at 9:30 AM
- Joshua
November 30, 2019 at 3:10 PM
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Poem - Iowa Fields 3
- Joshua
July 10, 2019 at 2:30 PM
- Joshua
July 10, 2019 at 7:43 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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Poem - Firewood
- Joshua
November 3, 2020 at 12:25 AM
- Joshua
November 3, 2020 at 12:25 AM
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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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Pliny the Elder's Villa Found?
- kochiekoch
February 5, 2024 at 4:37 PM
- kochiekoch
February 5, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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Pleasure vs pain - example and thoughts! 10
- ThinkingCat
May 20, 2023 at 4:02 AM
- ThinkingCat
May 21, 2023 at 9:08 PM
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Pleasure as a Synergy: A Critical Discussion of Ataraxia in Epicurean Ethics 4
- Hiram
September 10, 2019 at 10:53 AM
- Hiram
September 11, 2019 at 11:13 AM
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Pleasure and Reality 23
- Elayne
April 8, 2019 at 9:57 AM
- Elayne
April 14, 2019 at 7:33 AM
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Pleasure and illness 2
- Matt
December 22, 2020 at 9:16 PM
- Matt
December 23, 2020 at 7:36 PM
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