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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
- Cassius
September 6, 2023 at 2:36 PM
- Cassius
October 22, 2023 at 3:28 PM
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An Epicurean Understanding of Pleasure 96
- Kalosyni
October 4, 2021 at 1:39 PM
- Kalosyni
October 10, 2021 at 4:36 PM
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"Setting Before the Eyes" 49
- Don
January 28, 2022 at 6:15 PM
- Don
February 3, 2022 at 10:32 PM
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So You Want To Learn Ancient Greek Or Latin? 47
- burninglights
November 17, 2023 at 8:20 PM
- burninglights
March 17, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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Compassion in Epicurean Philosophy 42
- Joshua
February 7, 2022 at 12:20 AM
- Joshua
February 9, 2022 at 9:55 PM
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Opportunities for Activism And Collaboration Here At EpicureanFriends.com 33
- Cassius
April 2, 2020 at 9:59 AM
- Cassius
August 25, 2021 at 12:16 AM
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Is All "Ataraxia" Equal? 30
- Cassius
November 18, 2023 at 7:47 PM
- Cassius
February 19, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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"Absence Of Pain Is Pleasure" - How Would You Articulate That To Someone? 30
- Eoghan Gardiner
November 15, 2023 at 9:32 AM
- Eoghan Gardiner
December 2, 2023 at 12:47 PM
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Practical Pleasure-Pain Perspectives: How Different is 99% Pleasure From 100% Pleasure? 13
- Cassius
October 5, 2023 at 12:06 PM
- Cassius
October 6, 2023 at 10:24 AM
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Major Herculaneum Scroll News: "In the closing section of the text our author takes a parting shot at his adversaries, who 'have nothing to say about pleasure, either in general or in particular, when it is a question of definition.'” 12
- Cassius
February 5, 2024 at 12:08 PM
- Cassius
March 16, 2024 at 7:39 PM
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Cassius' Latest Single Page Outline Of Epicurean Philosophy 11
- Cassius
December 6, 2023 at 11:09 AM
- Cassius
December 10, 2023 at 5:41 PM
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Maximum pleasure as absence of all pain: a philosophical question concerning neuroscientific and Epicurean outlook toward the feeling of pleasure 10
- shahabgh66
January 20, 2024 at 4:26 AM
- shahabgh66
January 26, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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A Draft of A Pie Chart Presentation of Basic Concepts In Epicurean Pleasure 7
- Cassius
November 30, 2023 at 2:21 PM
- Cassius
December 2, 2023 at 3:27 PM
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Top Ten Recognizable Epicurean "Slogans" 6
- Cassius
March 25, 2024 at 9:19 AM
- Cassius
April 12, 2024 at 9:33 AM
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New Users Please Read Here First
- Cassius
November 22, 2019 at 2:20 PM
- Cassius
November 22, 2019 at 2:20 PM
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Can You Provide A Simplified Outline of The Most Important Principles Of The Epicurean System?
- Cassius
December 9, 2018 at 10:54 AM
- Cassius
December 9, 2018 at 10:54 AM
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Perspectives On "Proving" That Pleasure is "The Good" 205
- Todd
December 19, 2022 at 4:34 PM
- Todd
November 28, 2023 at 1:28 PM
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The Notre Dame Fire 78
- Cassius
April 15, 2019 at 4:57 PM
- Cassius
October 28, 2019 at 10:17 PM
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An Epicurean Study of Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics 75
- Don
October 7, 2022 at 6:26 PM
- Don
November 9, 2022 at 2:53 PM
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Should Epicurean Philosophy Be Made More Accessible? 71
- Kalosyni
December 30, 2021 at 12:50 PM
- Kalosyni
March 27, 2023 at 10:25 PM
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Epicureans and the Ancient Greek Gods (Imagery of "Gods" / "Gods Among Men") 70
- Matt
February 12, 2019 at 4:01 PM
- Matt
March 27, 2019 at 6:47 PM
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Supernatural and the Senses 63
- Matt
January 13, 2022 at 3:05 PM
- Matt
January 16, 2022 at 9:11 AM
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Dead Reddit / The "Isms" Thread 62
- Twentier
November 21, 2019 at 5:09 PM
- Twentier
December 22, 2019 at 7:08 PM
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Feedback From A User 51
- Lee
January 16, 2020 at 11:07 PM
- Lee
February 18, 2020 at 2:15 PM
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I'm back.....:-) 49
- brett
November 11, 2020 at 7:00 PM
- brett
November 15, 2020 at 3:59 PM
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Carl Sagan, the 4th dimension, episode 20 of Lucretius Today, physics 48
- Mathitis Kipouros
August 14, 2021 at 11:41 AM
- Mathitis Kipouros
August 21, 2021 at 7:37 AM
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Atlantic article about enjoyment vs. pleasure 47
- Kalosyni
April 7, 2022 at 10:21 AM
- Kalosyni
May 5, 2022 at 2:53 PM
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George Carlin - You have no rights -- reactions? 47
- Hiram
June 27, 2019 at 9:28 AM
- Hiram
September 21, 2020 at 8:02 PM
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Any Application of Epicurean Theology to the Christan God(s) 46
- Root304
May 28, 2022 at 11:51 AM
- Root304
June 23, 2022 at 2:37 PM
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Does the philosophy change you? 45
- EricR
June 13, 2023 at 7:56 AM
- EricR
June 16, 2023 at 1:05 PM
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Paul Thyry (Baron D'Holbach / Mirabaud) - French / German Sympathizer With Some Epicurean Ideas 44
- Cassius
December 16, 2023 at 8:42 AM
- Cassius
December 30, 2023 at 8:10 PM
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Can you seek happiness and be full of joy when there is a war in Europe? Wes Cecil podcast. 42
- Marco
May 15, 2022 at 4:06 AM
- Marco
May 20, 2022 at 12:54 PM
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Another mainstream article claiming ataraxia is the goal 40
- Kalosyni
September 22, 2022 at 4:05 PM
- Kalosyni
September 28, 2022 at 3:03 PM
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What Are The Possible Reasons (And Of These, The Most Likely) Why The List of 40 Principal Doctrines Does Not Feature A Statement Explicitly Stating Pleasure To Be The Goal of Life? 39
- Cassius
February 13, 2023 at 6:19 AM
- Cassius
February 14, 2023 at 3:15 PM
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As To The Three Legs Of The Canon (Sensations, Feelings, Anticipations) Is it Possible to Experience (Receive Data?) From One Without The Others? 39
- Cassius
February 5, 2023 at 4:23 PM
- Cassius
February 15, 2023 at 2:04 PM
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New Christos Yapijakis Article: "The Philosophical Management of Stress" 39
- Cassius
January 6, 2023 at 2:37 PM
- Cassius
January 8, 2023 at 7:05 PM
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Preconceptions and PD24 39
- Twentier
December 14, 2021 at 5:50 PM
- Twentier
February 9, 2022 at 9:41 PM
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Coronavirus - Epicurean World Report! 37
- Cassius
March 13, 2020 at 8:26 AM
- Cassius
March 24, 2020 at 10:22 AM
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Technology Question - How Best To Create "Video" With Speech Matched To Scrolling Text 37
- Cassius
October 10, 2019 at 4:08 PM
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October 12, 2019 at 4:21 AM
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Alt-tech outreach 36
- Matthaios
February 7, 2021 at 9:22 PM
- Matthaios
April 26, 2021 at 12:19 PM
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What Would Epicurus Think of the Big Bang? 35
- Cyrano
January 13, 2024 at 6:19 PM
- Cyrano
January 17, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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To What Extent, If Any, Does Modern Physics Invalidate Epicurean Philosophy? 35
- Cassius
August 15, 2020 at 5:39 AM
- Cassius
August 16, 2020 at 5:06 PM
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Who to believe? 34
- ThinkingCat
May 27, 2023 at 10:32 AM
- ThinkingCat
June 8, 2023 at 5:10 PM
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[Toby Sherman's Ancient Guide To Modern Well-being] That article I mentioned at the on line Wednesday 8/17 meeting 34
- kochiekoch
August 18, 2022 at 6:17 AM
- kochiekoch
August 23, 2022 at 3:29 PM
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Mental pleasure/pain more intense and longer lasting than physical pleasure/pain 33
- frank1syl
December 5, 2023 at 11:15 AM
- frank1syl
December 13, 2023 at 10:19 PM
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Imagery On The Interplay Between "Pursue Pleasure" and 'Avoid Pain" 33
- Cassius
March 28, 2023 at 9:09 AM
- Cassius
March 31, 2023 at 10:10 AM
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