Epicurus vs. Aristotle and The Peripatetics

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    2. A Video on Artistotle's Views of Pleasure "Pleasure What's the Limit"

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    2. External "Goods" Impact Eudaimonia 26

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    2. Aristotle's Virtue as Goal compared to Epicurus' Pleasure as Goal 2

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    2. From The "Golden Mean" to tbe "Summum Bonum" - Useful or Deceptive Frames of Reference? 98

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    2. What Do You Take From The "Golden Mean" of Aristotle? 26

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      • February 9, 2022 at 11:22 AM
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    2. "Classical Wisdom Speaks" Podcast Discussing Differences Between Plato And Aristotle (Helpful Even Though From Ayn Rand Perspective) 1

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    2. Against Ayn Rand and the Objectivists

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      • May 18, 2015 at 10:59 AM
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    2. The Problem With "Flourishing"

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    2. What fears does modern science remove, as Epicurean physics did in antiquity? 15

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      • June 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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    2. Who are capable of figuring the problem out 2

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    2. Porphyry - Letter to Marcella -"Vain Is the Word of the Philosopher..." 17

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    2. Daily life of ancient Epicureans / 21st Century Epicureans 38

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    2. Emily Austin's "LIving For Pleasure" Wins Award. (H/T to Lowri for finding this!)

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      • May 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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