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What Are The Possible Reasons (And Of These, The Most Likely) Why The List of 40 Principal Doctrines Does Not Feature A Statement Explicitly Stating Pleasure To Be The Goal of Life? 39
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Elli Quote From Pericles: "And the pleasure which we daily feel in all these things helps us to banish any sorrow."
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Julie Giovacchini - "The Tetrapharmakos, Authentic Formula Or Simplistic Summary Of Epicurean Ethics?" 5
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Lucy Hutchinson / Puritans / Cromwell 4
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The pleasure ideal: Epicurean vs Cyrenaic 3
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The Meaning Of the Story of Sisyphus 3
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An Example of Stoic Logical Reasoning - On Divination
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Question on Lucretius 6
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Prolepsis / Anticipations As Epicurus' Answer to the MENO Problem 34
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Video Games For Mental Focus and Relaxation 2
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Stoics Aren't Ascetics... It's Those Epicureans! 9
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what did epicurean actually mean by free will ? i think the article on the main page is confusing determinism with fatalism 8
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Aonius Palearius - Sixteenth Century Figure With Some Epicurean Sympathies
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Interview With Dr. Emily Austin: "Living For Pleasure"
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Interview With Dr. David Glidden: "Epicurean Prolepsis"
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Recorded Statements of Metrodorus 11
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