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    2. Epicurean Cites on The Issue of Impossibiity of Pure Happiness While Accepting Religious Fables

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    2. Is A Fish Dinner A Better Prescription For Pain Than a Treatise of Socrates? 3

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    2. "A Lie And An Impossibility" - Lucian - "Alexander the Oracle Monger" 1

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    2. Philosofy in Italy 4

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    2. Guyau - Interesting Summary Essay - The Morality of Epicurus And Its Relationship To Contemporary Doctrines 5

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    2. Your Regular Reminder That Epicurean Philosophy Is About A Lot More Than Ice Cream And Cookies

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    2. Starting Point Questions

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    2. Why Does Stoicism Seem to Be More Popular Than Epicureanism, Especially In England? 13

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    2. I'm not going to translate this 5

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    2. Seven Reasons Why We Need More Epicurean Content Creators 1

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    2. Life is Short - Do Stuff that ??? "matters" ??? 2

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    2. On Ice Cream And Epicurean Philosophy 21

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    2. The Institutions of Hellenistic Philosophy, by Phillip Mitsis 1

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    2. New Article: "Free Will In Epicurean Philosophy" - by Dimitris Liarmakopoulos

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    2. My latest author blog on Goodreads: Epicurean Economics and a Few Updates 13

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    2. Applying PD 31-38 to "Virtue" (Of Which "Justice" Is Simply a Subset) 2

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    2. Research Question: DeLattre's "Les Epicuriens" And the State of Publication of Herculaneum Texts

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    2. The Religion of Nature - as supported by Lucretius' De Rerum Natura 4

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    2. New Blog Post From Elli - " Fanaticism and the Danger of Dogmatism in Political and Religious Thought: An Epicurean Reading"

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    2. Best Lucretius translation? 9

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    2. New Translation of Epicurus' Works 1

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