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2. Explaining In Summary Form How A Man In Extreme Pain Can Be Said To Be "Happy" 22
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2. Tips On Offsetting Pleasures Against Pains 24
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2. Are You Epicurean Or Hieronymian? 26
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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. If Death Is Nothing To Us, Then Life Is Everything to Us 29
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2. On "Desires" And Their Relationship To Pleasure 30
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2. Is pleasure as the natural goal of life falsifiable? 30
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2. Is All "Ataraxia" Equal? 30
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2. Imagery On The Interplay Between "Pursue Pleasure" and 'Avoid Pain" 33
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2. Mental pleasure/pain more intense and longer lasting than physical pleasure/pain 33
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2. Why Minimizing All Desire Is Incorrect (And What To Do Instead) 34
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2. Pleasure, Desire and Limits 36
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2. "Absence Of Pain Is Pleasure" - How Would You Articulate That To Someone? 37
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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. Perspectives On "Proving" That Pleasure is "The Good" 205
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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)

Explaining In Summary Form How A Man In Extreme Pain Can Be Said To Be "Happy" 22

Tips On Offsetting Pleasures Against Pains 24

Are You Epicurean Or Hieronymian? 26

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

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

On "Desires" And Their Relationship To Pleasure 30

Is pleasure as the natural goal of life falsifiable? 30

Is All "Ataraxia" Equal? 30

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

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

Why Minimizing All Desire Is Incorrect (And What To Do Instead) 34

Pleasure, Desire and Limits 36

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

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

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

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