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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Twitter Users? 6
- A_Gardner
February 25, 2021 at 12:35 PM
- A_Gardner
February 26, 2021 at 1:56 PM
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HAPPY NEW YEAR 6
- Elli
December 31, 2020 at 6:15 PM
- Elli
January 1, 2021 at 10:06 AM
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Both Sides of the Garden's Walls 6
- Matt
December 23, 2020 at 9:13 AM
- Matt
December 23, 2020 at 9:06 PM
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Is Romantic Love a Vainglory 6
- Bartleby
November 29, 2020 at 12:01 PM
- Bartleby
November 29, 2020 at 8:15 PM
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Walking in the Garden 6
- Matt
September 2, 2020 at 10:57 AM
- Matt
September 6, 2020 at 9:10 PM
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Some notes on Plato’s Republic (actually on the Cliffs Notes thereof) 6
- Godfrey
April 23, 2020 at 8:34 PM
- Godfrey
April 24, 2020 at 3:40 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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An Epicurean Instagram 6
- A_Gardner
February 14, 2020 at 2:30 PM
- A_Gardner
February 15, 2020 at 5:09 AM
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A foodie ponders Epicurus the epicurean 6
- Godfrey
February 9, 2020 at 3:38 PM
- Godfrey
February 10, 2020 at 12:34 AM
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How do we feel about Peter Saint-Andre? 6
- Charles
January 14, 2020 at 3:23 PM
- Charles
March 1, 2020 at 5:51 PM
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Discussion of Article: "Political Division In The Promotion of Epicurean Philosophy: A Prescription For Disaster" 6
- Cassius
September 28, 2019 at 8:54 AM
- Cassius
September 29, 2019 at 7:42 PM
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To A Very Happy 20th 6
- Martin
August 20, 2019 at 11:28 AM
- Martin
August 21, 2019 at 4:08 PM
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A Quote from Hobbes' "Leviathan" 6
- Cassius
August 13, 2019 at 5:24 AM
- Cassius
August 15, 2019 at 10:38 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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Poem - Hermarchus 6
- Joshua
July 3, 2019 at 10:12 AM
- Joshua
July 5, 2019 at 1:18 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
- Cassius
June 1, 2019 at 2:49 AM
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Epicureanism – Busts of Venus, Athena, Epicurus 6
- Hiram
March 30, 2019 at 10:10 AM
- Hiram
March 31, 2019 at 3:23 PM
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We're in the Bible!! 6
- Hiram
March 4, 2019 at 7:20 PM
- Hiram
March 14, 2019 at 2:53 PM
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Happy Holidays 6
- Matt
December 25, 2018 at 12:38 PM
- Matt
January 1, 2019 at 12:14 PM
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Hiram Crespo on The Pursuit of Happiness, Epicurean Philosophy, and Changing Your Mindset 6
- Hiram
December 14, 2018 at 2:23 PM
- Hiram
December 17, 2018 at 12:22 PM
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Placita by Aetius 5
- Bryan
March 25, 2024 at 7:57 PM
- Bryan
March 26, 2024 at 12:09 PM
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Sports are fun but is exercise really something Epicurus would have lauded? 5
- Peter Konstans
March 14, 2024 at 1:33 PM
- Peter Konstans
March 31, 2024 at 10:51 AM
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Epicurus' On the nature of things 5
- mcluhan
February 1, 2024 at 1:42 PM
- mcluhan
February 1, 2024 at 11:14 PM
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Greek Atomism and subatomic particles. 'Atomos' and 'Ameres' 5
- TauPhi
October 29, 2023 at 11:26 PM
- TauPhi
October 30, 2023 at 11:00 PM
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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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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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New Front Page "Forum Navigation Map" 5
- Cassius
August 18, 2023 at 1:37 PM
- Cassius
September 13, 2023 at 6:10 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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Fill in the Blank: "Epicurus Campaigned Primarily Against _________________" 5
- Cassius
April 24, 2023 at 10:42 AM
- Cassius
April 26, 2023 at 6:07 PM
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