"Good" and "Evil" Consist Only in Sensation

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    2. The Full Cup / Fullness of Pleasure Model 2

      • Cassius
      • January 30, 2016 at 7:10 PM
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    2. Torquatus' Statement of the Epicurean View Of The Ultimate Good In "On Ends" 26

      • Cassius
      • September 28, 2021 at 5:35 AM
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    2. "Absence of Pain" In Cicero's "On Ends"

      • Cassius
      • September 18, 2016 at 8:16 AM
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    2. "All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation"

      • Cassius
      • September 2, 2023 at 12:29 PM
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    2. A List of Objections To Epicurus From A Modern Christian - Hyde's "From Epicurus To Christ" 3

      • Cassius
      • January 6, 2019 at 9:46 AM
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    2. A Video on Epicurus and Pleasure Being Better Than God Or Virtue. 1

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      • July 25, 2020 at 11:04 AM
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    2. An Exchange On The Subject of Ataraxia As "The Ultimate Pleasure"

      • Cassius
      • November 5, 2018 at 4:07 PM
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      • November 5, 2018 at 4:07 PM
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    2. Another Aspect of PD3's "The Limit of Quantity In Pleasures..." - Pleasure Is A Matter For Individual / Flexible Measurement

      • Cassius
      • July 6, 2019 at 9:29 AM
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    2. Another Summary, This Time Prompted by Eoghan

      • Cassius
      • April 28, 2018 at 10:07 AM
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    2. Cicero’s Presentation of Epicurean Ethics – Fake News?

      • Cassius
      • March 11, 2017 at 6:10 PM
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    2. Collecting Ancient Instances of the Argument: "Pleasure Cannot Be The Highest Good Because It Has No Limit" 19

      • Cassius
      • December 27, 2021 at 9:02 AM
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    2. Comment at the Epicurean Philosophy Facebook Group On Pleasure As The Highest Good 23

      • Cassius
      • September 16, 2020 at 7:48 AM
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      • September 18, 2020 at 2:50 PM
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    2. Commentary on "The Ultimate Tranquilizer"

      • Cassius
      • September 24, 2018 at 11:14 AM
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      • September 24, 2018 at 11:14 AM
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    2. Common Objections and Responses

      • Cassius
      • April 29, 2015 at 4:00 PM
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    2. Consequentialism & Moral Relativism within the context of Pleasure-filled Philosophy 27

      • Charles
      • March 10, 2020 at 5:22 PM
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    2. Considering the Importance of Mental Pleasures 3

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      • May 30, 2018 at 2:09 PM
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    2. Continuous Pleasure / Sustained Pleasure 6

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      • September 7, 2020 at 4:33 PM
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    2. Excellent Article on the Nature of Pleasure

      • Cassius
      • February 3, 2016 at 9:19 PM
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    2. For Those Who Dispute That Pleasurable Living Is the Goal of Life, What Would You Say Is The Goal Instead?

      • Cassius
      • March 11, 2017 at 6:02 PM
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    2. Getting Oriented - Where To Start For NewComers

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      • May 16, 2019 at 9:01 AM
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    2. How epicureanism has been helping me deal with overindulgence 6

      • brett
      • January 24, 2018 at 11:54 PM
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    2. How Much Pleasure Is Needed For A Happy Life? 1

      • Cassius
      • November 11, 2019 at 9:13 AM
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      • November 11, 2019 at 9:14 AM
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    2. In Life, There is No Antidote to Pain But Pleasure

      • Cassius
      • December 10, 2017 at 11:22 AM
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    2. Is Pleasure the Only Good? 7

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      • September 15, 2019 at 2:05 PM
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    2. Journal of happiness studies article on Epicurus 8

      • brett
      • November 26, 2020 at 7:04 PM
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    2. Living The Hobo Life? 11

      • brett
      • January 8, 2018 at 11:02 PM
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    2. Loving Life? Or Loving Anesthesia?

      • Cassius
      • June 1, 2015 at 9:47 AM
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    2. More on "Simple Pleasures" 3

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      • January 15, 2018 at 8:33 PM
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    2. Nature and Pleasure and Pain 9

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    2. Nature Didn't Give Us A Faculty of "Something Else"

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      • December 17, 2018 at 8:13 PM
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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. Does The Wise Man Groan and Cry Out When On The Rack / Under Torture / In Extreme Pain? 19

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    2. Best Lucretius translation? 9

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    2. New Translation of Epicurus' Works 1

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