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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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The Legendary Predecessor of Epicurus 11
- Cyrano
January 23, 2024 at 8:53 PM
- Cyrano
February 1, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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A sage “masters wealth” - Epicurus 1
- Hiram
July 10, 2019 at 1:05 PM
- Hiram
July 10, 2019 at 2:36 PM
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Event Described in Torquatus 2
- ccarruth42
December 26, 2022 at 7:01 AM
- ccarruth42
December 26, 2022 at 10:42 AM
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David Attenborough on Lucretius 2
- Joshua
May 6, 2021 at 12:28 AM
- Joshua
May 6, 2021 at 9:18 AM
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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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The Description of Epicurean Philosophy On Wikipedia 10
- Cassius
October 4, 2023 at 4:03 PM
- Cassius
February 1, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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Augustine of Hippo, The City of God, XI.5; & Theophilus of Antioch, To Autolycus, III.6 8
- Don
November 10, 2023 at 7:47 AM
- Don
November 11, 2023 at 3:06 PM
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A Few Recent Acquisitions 1
- Joshua
August 14, 2019 at 10:58 PM
- Joshua
August 15, 2019 at 9:31 AM
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Mochus (or Moschus) the Phoenician 1
- Joshua
July 6, 2020 at 1:53 PM
- Joshua
July 6, 2020 at 2:55 PM
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Sharing Zoom sessions 6
- EricR
August 2, 2023 at 8:52 AM
- EricR
August 3, 2023 at 8:15 PM
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Epicurean Theology Compared to Mormon Theology 1
- Cassius
February 13, 2021 at 8:58 AM
- Cassius
February 13, 2021 at 9:13 AM
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Happy Thanksgiving! 10
- Don
November 23, 2023 at 9:55 AM
- Don
November 25, 2023 at 4:52 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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Contemporary Chronology 2
- Don
December 29, 2020 at 10:56 PM
- Don
December 30, 2020 at 7:17 AM
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Meme Creativity Requested! 4
- Cassius
October 22, 2021 at 1:15 PM
- Cassius
October 22, 2021 at 5:01 PM
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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
- Cassius
April 9, 2019 at 2:46 PM
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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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Pewdiepie Gets it Wrong - The Problem Isn't "Virtue Signaling" - The Problem is "Virtue" Itself
- Cassius
December 17, 2019 at 1:15 PM
- Cassius
December 17, 2019 at 1:15 PM
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The Polytheism of the Epicureans 1
- Hiram
August 28, 2019 at 12:34 PM
- Hiram
August 28, 2019 at 1:40 PM
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"satisfactory to the epicurean" 2
- Don
October 23, 2021 at 6:56 AM
- Don
October 23, 2021 at 3:36 PM
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Linguistic Connection Between "Hedone" and "Eden" ? 1
- Cassius
June 26, 2019 at 8:19 AM
- Cassius
June 26, 2019 at 8:20 AM
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Ubuntu: African Humanism and Epicurean Philanthropy 1
- Hiram
July 8, 2019 at 12:28 PM
- Hiram
July 8, 2019 at 4:34 PM
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Epicurean Philosophy for Parents 1
- Elayne
February 22, 2021 at 7:51 AM
- Elayne
February 22, 2021 at 9:14 AM
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For New Users - A General Comment About Posting At EpicureanFriends 1
- Cassius
September 25, 2020 at 6:37 PM
- Cassius
September 25, 2020 at 6:38 PM
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Cicero and the Epicureans: an online thesis 2
- Kalosyni
November 24, 2021 at 5:14 PM
- Kalosyni
November 24, 2021 at 6:06 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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Cassius' Ebooks 1
- Cassius
January 3, 2019 at 9:54 AM
- Cassius
August 16, 2021 at 5:35 PM
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A Pleasant Life instead of Pleasure 7
- EricR
August 4, 2023 at 8:14 AM
- EricR
August 5, 2023 at 8:27 PM
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Some Thoughts on “The Family”, and How the Doctrine of Determinism is Used By Christian Extremists 1
- Hiram
August 25, 2019 at 2:00 PM
- Hiram
September 4, 2019 at 10:31 PM
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Renderings of Epicurean Philosophers by Genevra Catalano (2022-2023) 14
- Twentier
November 16, 2023 at 10:30 AM
- Twentier
November 18, 2023 at 5:34 PM
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