Virtue as a Means for Pleasure - Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End In Itself

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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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      September 4, 2023 at 7:56 AM

    2. Pleasures of the soul, Values, Meaningful Life 29

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      • June 28, 2022 at 7:27 AM
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    2. David Sedley on The Epicurean Separation of Virtue And Pleasure

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

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

      • Cassius
      • March 11, 2017 at 3:46 PM
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    2. What is the relationship between Arete (moral virtue) in Hellenistic Philosophy vs. Religions

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      • March 11, 2017 at 3:32 PM
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    2. Cicero's Criticism of Stoicism's Doctrine of "Preferreds"

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      • September 24, 2016 at 3:24 PM
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    2. Cicero's Criticism of Stoicism - Book 4 of On Ends

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      • September 24, 2016 at 3:23 PM
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    2. Cicero's Criticism of Stoicism in "On Ends"

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      • September 24, 2016 at 3:22 PM
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    2. The Seductiveness of Virtue

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      • August 10, 2016 at 6:00 PM
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