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2. Identifying And Dealing With Significant Error / Mistakes in Ourselves (and Others)
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2. Sedley paper on Plato with interesting Epicurean implications 2
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2. Pleasure, Desire and Limits 36
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2. Epicureans On Kingship 15
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2. “How Epicurean Science Saves Humanity” 3
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2. Is pleasure as the natural goal of life falsifiable? 30
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2. Perspectives On "Proving" That Pleasure is "The Good" 205
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2. We Need A Game Show With A Lightning Round Question: "Happiness or Pleasure? - Why?" 28
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2. Imagery On The Interplay Between "Pursue Pleasure" and 'Avoid Pain" 33
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2. Epicurus And Pleasure As The Awareness Of Smooth Motion 13
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2. How has the word epicurean come to mean excess? 22
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2. "Living Life Full Measure" as an Epicurean Metaphor 3
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2. Social feelings/actions to not-friends(or strangers, animals) (Philantropy /compassion /sympathy / kindness / charity /) 4
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2. Pleasure vs pain - example and thoughts! 10
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2. Ruminations on leading with “Pleasure and Pain as the Guide” v “The Goal is Pleasure” 4
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2. How would you respond to an existentialist who says "You Epicureans have chosen pleasure as your meaning but it's not universal" do Epicureans hold that pleasure is the universal Good? 13
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2. Epicurean Golden Rule? 14
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2. Desiderata 2
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2. A Pleasant Life instead of Pleasure 7
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2. 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
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2. Practical Pleasure-Pain Perspectives: How Different is 99% Pleasure From 100% Pleasure? 13
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2. If Death Is Nothing To Us, Then Life Is Everything to Us 29
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2. Explaining Perspectives - Chart Of Whole Organism vs Discrete Feelings
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  - October 17, 2023 at 8:52 AM
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2. Wikipedia on "Pleasure"
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2. List of Epicurean philosophical remedies
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2. "Absence Of Pain Is Pleasure" - How Would You Articulate That To Someone? 37
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2. Is All "Ataraxia" Equal? 30
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2. Tips On Offsetting Pleasures Against Pains 24
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2. Mental pleasure/pain more intense and longer lasting than physical pleasure/pain 33
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2. Fundamental Issues In Hedonism 15
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2. Does The Wise Man Groan and Cry Out When On The Rack / Under Torture / In Extreme Pain? 17
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2. New Translation of Epicurus' Works 1
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2. Superstition and Friday the 13th 6
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2. Epicurean Emporium 9
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2. The Religion of Nature - as supported by Lucretius' De Rerum Natura 2
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Featured Videos | Latest Lucretius Today Podcast: #285 - "The Significance Of The Limits Of Pain"" | Member Announcements | The Epicurean Paradigm Shift (Things To Know When Reading Epicurus For The First Time)

Sedley paper on Plato with interesting Epicurean implications 2

Pleasure, Desire and Limits 36

Epicureans On Kingship 15

“How Epicurean Science Saves Humanity” 3

Is pleasure as the natural goal of life falsifiable? 30

Perspectives On "Proving" That Pleasure is "The Good" 205

We Need A Game Show With A Lightning Round Question: "Happiness or Pleasure? - Why?" 28

Imagery On The Interplay Between "Pursue Pleasure" and 'Avoid Pain" 33

Epicurus And Pleasure As The Awareness Of Smooth Motion 13

How has the word epicurean come to mean excess? 22

"Living Life Full Measure" as an Epicurean Metaphor 3

Social feelings/actions to not-friends(or strangers, animals) (Philantropy /compassion /sympathy / kindness / charity /) 4

Pleasure vs pain - example and thoughts! 10

Ruminations on leading with “Pleasure and Pain as the Guide” v “The Goal is Pleasure” 4

How would you respond to an existentialist who says "You Epicureans have chosen pleasure as your meaning but it's not universal" do Epicureans hold that pleasure is the universal Good? 13

Epicurean Golden Rule? 14

Desiderata 2

A Pleasant Life instead of Pleasure 7

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

Practical Pleasure-Pain Perspectives: How Different is 99% Pleasure From 100% Pleasure? 13

If Death Is Nothing To Us, Then Life Is Everything to Us 29

"Absence Of Pain Is Pleasure" - How Would You Articulate That To Someone? 37

Is All "Ataraxia" Equal? 30

Tips On Offsetting Pleasures Against Pains 24

Mental pleasure/pain more intense and longer lasting than physical pleasure/pain 33

Fundamental Issues In Hedonism 15

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Does The Wise Man Groan and Cry Out When On The Rack / Under Torture / In Extreme Pain? 17

New Translation of Epicurus' Works 1

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

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