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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. How has the word epicurean come to mean excess? 22
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2. Mental pleasure/pain more intense and longer lasting than physical pleasure/pain 33
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2. Imagery On The Interplay Between "Pursue Pleasure" and 'Avoid Pain" 33
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2. Valueless Virtue in Modern Stoicism 16
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2. Epicurean Freedom. Enslavement by culture. The mob. 15
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2. Is All "Ataraxia" Equal? 30
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2. Is pleasure as the natural goal of life falsifiable? 30
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2. Elena Nicoli - An Excellent Presentation On Epicurean Pleasure 11
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2. "Absence Of Pain Is Pleasure" - How Would You Articulate That To Someone? 37
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2. On "Desires" And Their Relationship To Pleasure 30
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2. Pleasure, Desire and Limits 36
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2. Are You Epicurean Or Hieronymian? 26
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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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We Need A Game Show With A Lightning Round Question: "Happiness or Pleasure? - Why?" 28

How has the word epicurean come to mean excess? 22

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

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

Valueless Virtue in Modern Stoicism 16

Epicurean Freedom. Enslavement by culture. The mob. 15

Is All "Ataraxia" Equal? 30

Is pleasure as the natural goal of life falsifiable? 30

Elena Nicoli - An Excellent Presentation On Epicurean Pleasure 11

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

On "Desires" And Their Relationship To Pleasure 30

Pleasure, Desire and Limits 36

Are You Epicurean Or Hieronymian? 26

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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