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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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Nate's Latest Graphic - "Epicurus Cannot Be Wrestled"
- Cassius
May 20, 2022 at 10:39 AM
- Cassius
May 20, 2022 at 10:39 AM
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Can you seek happiness and be full of joy when there is a war in Europe? Wes Cecil podcast. 42
- Marco
May 15, 2022 at 4:06 AM
- Marco
May 20, 2022 at 12:54 PM
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"Take your pleasure seriously" 5
- Don
May 14, 2022 at 8:49 AM
- Don
May 14, 2022 at 10:04 PM
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Is Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy Compatible with Epicureanism? 23
- Kalosyni
May 3, 2022 at 5:53 PM
- Kalosyni
May 4, 2022 at 10:53 PM
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Egypt archaeologists unearth stunning 'Temple of Zeus' dedicated to Greek god 1
- Cassius
May 1, 2022 at 7:11 PM
- Cassius
May 1, 2022 at 7:20 PM
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The destruction of the ancient world 5
- Don
April 29, 2022 at 7:47 AM
- Don
May 3, 2022 at 8:25 AM
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A Brief Update and on Suggestion of Discord Gardens 1
- A_Gardner
April 25, 2022 at 12:08 PM
- A_Gardner
April 25, 2022 at 4:37 PM
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The Garden Then -- and the Garden Now 10
- Kalosyni
April 25, 2022 at 8:07 AM
- Kalosyni
July 20, 2022 at 3:06 AM
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The Life Enhancing Benefits of Epicurean Philosophy 4
- Kalosyni
April 23, 2022 at 6:56 PM
- Kalosyni
April 30, 2022 at 7:58 PM
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The Last Words of Charles Darwin 8
- Joshua
April 19, 2022 at 10:53 PM
- Joshua
May 4, 2022 at 9:42 PM
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Epicurean Change 13
- Matt
April 8, 2022 at 8:39 AM
- Matt
April 9, 2022 at 3:08 PM
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Atlantic article about enjoyment vs. pleasure 47
- Kalosyni
April 7, 2022 at 10:21 AM
- Kalosyni
May 5, 2022 at 2:53 PM
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Battling Ladies of the 19th Century - Fighting Over Epicurus vs Plato - "PHILOTHEA - Or Plato Against Epicurus" - A Response to Frances Wright's "A Few Days In Athens" 10
- Cassius
April 4, 2022 at 9:58 AM
- Cassius
April 6, 2022 at 6:40 AM
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A Challenge To Epicurean Thinking Grounded in Epistemology and Physics 20
- Cassius
March 12, 2022 at 11:32 AM
- Cassius
March 16, 2022 at 10:23 PM
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Sir William Temple, "Upon the Gardens of Epicurus", 1685 5
- Joshua
March 11, 2022 at 8:41 PM
- Joshua
July 20, 2022 at 3:28 AM
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What holds me back from embracing EP 29
- EricR
March 1, 2022 at 11:03 AM
- EricR
July 20, 2022 at 8:09 PM
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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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Images of Polyaenus? 3
- Twentier
February 22, 2022 at 8:47 AM
- Twentier
February 23, 2022 at 4:57 PM
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The 422nd Anniversary of the Execution of Giordano Bruno 2
- Joshua
February 17, 2022 at 6:01 PM
- Joshua
February 18, 2022 at 2:36 AM
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Argumentation Theory of Stephen E. Toulmin 5
- Kalosyni
February 2, 2022 at 2:03 PM
- Kalosyni
February 3, 2022 at 11:40 AM
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Greenblatt and his Detractors 13
- Joshua
February 1, 2022 at 2:08 PM
- Joshua
February 3, 2022 at 11:47 AM
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Historical References on the School of Epicurean Philosophy - Notable Epicureans From The Ancient World To Today 5
- Cassius
February 1, 2022 at 8:34 AM
- Cassius
February 1, 2022 at 11:55 AM
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Updated Alternative Timeline of Epicurean History 1
- Don
January 18, 2022 at 4:24 PM
- Don
January 18, 2022 at 4:35 PM
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Participants' Epicurean Book and Artifact Collections 16
- Cassius
January 17, 2022 at 9:16 AM
- Cassius
January 21, 2022 at 7:42 AM
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A thought on duty to the whole world, and why virtue must be an instrument to happiness. 9
- smoothiekiwi
January 15, 2022 at 4:38 PM
- smoothiekiwi
January 16, 2022 at 5:03 PM
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Supernatural and the Senses 63
- Matt
January 13, 2022 at 3:05 PM
- Matt
January 16, 2022 at 9:11 AM
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Epicurean kèpos in Autun - France. 7
- Marco
January 12, 2022 at 5:33 AM
- Marco
January 12, 2022 at 9:01 AM
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Joshua's "Only The Beginning" Observation 23
- Cassius
January 8, 2022 at 4:49 PM
- Cassius
January 12, 2022 at 12:50 AM
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Essentialism? 3
- Marco
January 3, 2022 at 7:15 AM
- Marco
January 3, 2022 at 8:30 AM
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Should Epicurean Philosophy Be Made More Accessible? 73
- Kalosyni
December 30, 2021 at 12:50 PM
- Kalosyni
April 30, 2024 at 2:52 PM
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