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    2. Psychopaths and Pleasure 3

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

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    2. Collecting Ancient Instances of the Argument: "Pleasure Cannot Be The Highest Good Because It Has No Limit" 19

      • Cassius
      • December 27, 2021 at 9:02 AM
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    2. Thomas Jefferson's "Head And Heart" Letter

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      • April 7, 2021 at 11:02 AM
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    2. Consequentialism & Moral Relativism within the context of Pleasure-filled Philosophy 27

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      • March 10, 2020 at 5:22 PM
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    2. Obeying the law is pleasurable 1

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      • January 11, 2020 at 9:29 PM
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    2. Nature and Pleasure and Pain 9

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    2. Another Aspect of PD3's "The Limit of Quantity In Pleasures..." - Pleasure Is A Matter For Individual / Flexible Measurement

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    2. Elli On Arete / Virtue

      • Cassius
      • March 15, 2019 at 11:36 AM
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    2. A List of Objections To Epicurus From A Modern Christian - Hyde's "From Epicurus To Christ" 3

      • Cassius
      • January 6, 2019 at 9:46 AM
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    2. Nature Didn't Give Us A Faculty of "Something Else"

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      • December 17, 2018 at 8:13 PM
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    2. An Exchange On The Subject of Ataraxia As "The Ultimate Pleasure"

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      • November 5, 2018 at 4:07 PM
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    2. Commentary on "The Ultimate Tranquilizer"

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      • September 24, 2018 at 11:14 AM
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    2. Considering the Importance of Mental Pleasures 3

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      • May 30, 2018 at 2:09 PM
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    2. Pleasure As the Goal - A Blog Post by Eoghan Gardiner

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      • May 11, 2018 at 5:44 PM
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    2. Another Summary, This Time Prompted by Eoghan

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      • April 28, 2018 at 10:07 AM
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    2. More on "Simple Pleasures" 3

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      • January 15, 2018 at 8:33 PM
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    2. The Difference Between Happiness and Pleasure 18

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    2. In Life, There is No Antidote to Pain But Pleasure

      • Cassius
      • December 10, 2017 at 11:22 AM
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    2. Cicero’s Presentation of Epicurean Ethics – Fake News?

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      • March 11, 2017 at 6:10 PM
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    2. For Those Who Dispute That Pleasurable Living Is the Goal of Life, What Would You Say Is The Goal Instead?

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      • March 11, 2017 at 6:02 PM
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    2. Would Epicurus Say That Epictetus (A "Virtuous Man") lived a pleasant life?

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      • 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

      • Cassius
      • March 11, 2017 at 3:32 PM
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    2. Socrates / Plato - The Pursuit of Pleasure as "cookery" or "flattery"

      • Cassius
      • September 24, 2016 at 3:28 PM
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    2. Cicero's Criticism of Stoicism's Doctrine of "Preferreds"

      • Cassius
      • 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. Simonides - Without pleasure, not even the life of the gods is enviable.

      • Cassius
      • September 24, 2016 at 3:02 PM
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    2. Theophrastus - Perception is generally pleasurable....

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      • September 24, 2016 at 3:00 PM
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    2. "Absence of Pain" In Cicero's "On Ends"

      • Cassius
      • September 18, 2016 at 8:16 AM
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