Virtue (A Means for Pleasure, Not an End in Itself)

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    2. Key Citations On Confidence 2

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    2. Key Citations On Beneficence

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    2. Key Citations On Honesty and Frank Speech

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    2. Key Citations On Courage

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    2. Key Citations On Prudence

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    2. What is Virtue and what aspects of Virtue does an Epicurean cultivate? 1

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      • March 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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    2. Philodemus - On Frank Speech 20

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    2. Cicero Attributing To Epicurus The View That Virtuous Action Is Itself Pleasurable 9

      • Cassius
      • September 3, 2023 at 9:56 PM
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    2. David Sedley on The Epicurean Separation of Virtue And Pleasure

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      • July 20, 2019 at 9:38 AM
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    2. Elli On Arete / Virtue

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      • March 15, 2019 at 11:36 AM
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    2. Would Epicurus Say That Epictetus (A "Virtuous Man") lived a pleasant life?

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    2. What is the relationship between Arete (moral virtue) in Hellenistic Philosophy vs. Religions

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    2. Cicero's Criticism of Stoicism's Doctrine of "Preferreds"

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    2. Cicero's Criticism of Stoicism - Book 4 of On Ends

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    2. Cicero's Criticism of Stoicism in "On Ends"

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    2. The Seductiveness of Virtue

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      • August 10, 2016 at 6:00 PM
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    2. The “Absence of Pain” Problem 11

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    2. Epicurean philosophy skewing toward elements of Stoicism in the time of Lucretius?? 9

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    2. Preconceptions and PD24 42

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    2. The Use of Negation in Epicurean Philosophy Concepts 47

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