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Featured Threads - If You Are New Here, Check Out Our "Featured Threads" For Discussions Of Particular Interest!
- Kalosyni
December 4, 2024 at 5:51 PM
- Kalosyni
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New Users Please Read Here First
- Cassius
November 22, 2019 at 2:20 PM
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Epicurus "On Nature" - Book 25: On Moral Development
- Hiram
July 8, 2019 at 10:13 AM
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July 8, 2019 at 10:13 AM
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Epicurus' On Nature, Books 10, 11 and 12 2
- Hiram
July 3, 2019 at 9:59 AM
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On Epicurean Chaplaincy 8
- Hiram
July 2, 2019 at 11:24 AM
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George Carlin - You have no rights -- reactions? 47
- Hiram
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Garden-Variety Happiness: Epicurus had a simple recipe for happiness
- Hiram
June 24, 2019 at 10:55 AM
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June 24, 2019 at 10:55 AM
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Happy 20th Newsletter and Updates 1
- Hiram
June 20, 2019 at 10:57 AM
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Anti-Stoic article at PEL 4
- Hiram
June 11, 2019 at 9:53 AM
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June 12, 2019 at 10:09 AM
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My latest author blog on Goodreads: Epicurean Economics and a Few Updates 13
- Hiram
May 23, 2019 at 10:54 AM
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Publicly Funded Superstition - video
- Hiram
May 17, 2019 at 2:00 PM
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Embodied Philosophy 4
- Hiram
May 15, 2019 at 4:41 PM
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The Institutions of Hellenistic Philosophy, by Phillip Mitsis 1
- Hiram
May 14, 2019 at 6:59 PM
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Seven Reasons Why We Need More Epicurean Content Creators 1
- Hiram
May 13, 2019 at 3:28 PM
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Discussion: The Twentieth Feast 2
- Hiram
April 16, 2019 at 5:07 PM
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Epicurus: Against the Use of Empty Words 17
- Hiram
April 14, 2019 at 4:55 PM
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Starting a Garden in the digital era
- Hiram
April 13, 2019 at 4:40 PM
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Anandamide: the molecule of pleasure, 4
- Hiram
April 3, 2019 at 3:08 PM
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The Ethical Implications Of Epicurus' Theology 5
- Hiram
April 2, 2019 at 10:21 AM
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April 23, 2019 at 9:54 AM
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How to live a Good Life Featured in PW 5
- Hiram
March 26, 2019 at 8:24 AM
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Epicureans on Squandering Life 4
- Hiram
February 26, 2019 at 10:15 AM
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February 27, 2019 at 9:55 AM
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Interesting! #Epicurean interior design?! 8
- Hiram
February 25, 2019 at 12:33 PM
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Meeting the Epicurean challenge: a reply to Christensen 5
- Hiram
February 25, 2019 at 7:26 AM
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February 28, 2019 at 9:54 AM
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On Epicurean Economics
- Hiram
February 20, 2019 at 8:35 AM
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Universal Basic Income 14
- Hiram
February 14, 2019 at 10:23 AM
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Epicurus Discussed On The PartiallyExaminedLife.com Podcast 7
- Hiram
January 24, 2019 at 11:13 AM
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What does a government based on Epicureanism look like? 2
- Hiram
January 9, 2019 at 9:35 AM
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Vatican Sayings – Brief Study Guide
- Hiram
November 25, 2018 at 1:05 PM
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November 25, 2018 at 1:05 PM
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Society of Epicurus now has a sub-reddit 1
- Hiram
November 9, 2018 at 12:20 PM
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November 9, 2018 at 1:54 PM
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American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) 3
- Godfrey
February 27, 2021 at 4:56 PM
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Maximus of Tyre, Socrates and Epicurus 1
- Godfrey
November 22, 2020 at 4:12 PM
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Virtual Archeological Tours 3
- Godfrey
July 11, 2020 at 6:35 PM
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Must All Things That Have A Beginning Have An End? 3
- Cassius
May 1, 2025 at 9:48 AM - 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
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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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