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    2. David Sedley on The Epicurean Separation of Virtue And Pleasure

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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. A List of Objections To Epicurus From A Modern Christian - Hyde's "From Epicurus To Christ" 3

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    2. Nature Didn't Give Us A Faculty of "Something Else"

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    2. An Exchange On The Subject of Ataraxia As "The Ultimate Pleasure"

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    2. Commentary on "The Ultimate Tranquilizer"

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    2. Considering the Importance of Mental Pleasures 3

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    2. Pleasure As the Goal - A Blog Post by Eoghan Gardiner

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    2. Another Summary, This Time Prompted by Eoghan

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    2. More on "Simple Pleasures" 3

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

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    2. Cicero’s Presentation of Epicurean Ethics – Fake News?

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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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    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. The Goal of Life - From Torquatus in "On Ends"

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    2. Socrates / Plato - The Pursuit of Pleasure as "cookery" or "flattery"

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

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    2. Theophrastus - Perception is generally pleasurable....

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    2. "Absence of Pain" In Cicero's "On Ends"

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    2. The Seductiveness of Virtue

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    2. Pleasure, "Absence of Pain," and Two States of Feeling

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    2. Excellent Article on the Nature of Pleasure

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