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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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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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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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"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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Thomas Carnes - Keeping the Friend in Epicurean Friendship 6
- warjuning
July 9, 2023 at 11:50 AM
- warjuning
July 9, 2023 at 8:06 PM
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THE HEDONICON (or The Holy Book of Epicurus) 9
- Twentier
November 20, 2023 at 12:44 AM
- Twentier
December 26, 2023 at 2:30 PM
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Renderings of Epicurean Philosophers by Genevra Catalano (2022-2023) 14
- Twentier
November 16, 2023 at 10:30 AM
- Twentier
November 18, 2023 at 5:34 PM
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Convincing Demonstrations of the God(s) 1
- Twentier
August 22, 2023 at 2:34 PM
- Twentier
August 23, 2023 at 5:36 AM
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The Illusory Walls of Safety
- Twentier
August 21, 2023 at 3:03 PM
- Twentier
August 21, 2023 at 3:03 PM
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Epicurean Verse For When You're Feeling... 18
- Twentier
March 6, 2023 at 9:18 AM
- Twentier
March 9, 2023 at 1:48 PM
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"AI" Images 3
- Twentier
February 16, 2023 at 9:26 AM
- Twentier
February 17, 2023 at 11:12 AM
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Epicurean Communities of the Ancient World 3
- Twentier
June 6, 2022 at 4:34 PM
- Twentier
June 8, 2022 at 12:25 PM
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Images of Polyaenus? 3
- Twentier
February 22, 2022 at 8:47 AM
- Twentier
February 23, 2022 at 4:57 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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HISTORICAL REFERENCES TO "PEACE AND SAFETY" – ΕΙΡΗΝΗ ΚΑΙ ΑΣΦΑΛΕΙΑ 10
- Twentier
May 28, 2021 at 3:42 PM
- Twentier
May 29, 2021 at 11:29 AM
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Astronomical Events During the Time of Epicurus 16
- Twentier
May 27, 2021 at 6:34 PM
- Twentier
May 28, 2021 at 1:14 PM
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Dead Reddit / The "Isms" Thread 62
- Twentier
November 21, 2019 at 5:09 PM
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December 22, 2019 at 7:08 PM
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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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David Konstan - Life worthy of the Gods 3
- timrobbe
October 24, 2020 at 5:28 AM
- timrobbe
October 24, 2020 at 8:18 AM
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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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Pleasure vs pain - example and thoughts! 10
- ThinkingCat
May 20, 2023 at 4:02 AM
- ThinkingCat
May 21, 2023 at 9:08 PM
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How has the word epicurean come to mean excess? 22
- ThinkingCat
May 13, 2023 at 9:24 AM
- ThinkingCat
May 19, 2023 at 6:50 PM
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Hermann Usener's 'Glossarium Epicureum' 6
- TauPhi
February 1, 2024 at 6:51 PM
- TauPhi
March 21, 2024 at 10:59 AM
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Greek Atomism and subatomic particles. 'Atomos' and 'Ameres' 5
- TauPhi
October 29, 2023 at 11:26 PM
- TauPhi
October 30, 2023 at 11:00 PM
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The dark Epicureanism in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 7
- Stan85
May 24, 2018 at 10:57 PM
- Stan85
December 2, 2023 at 6:27 AM
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Some Epicurean conclusions 7
- Stan85
May 19, 2018 at 7:23 PM
- Stan85
May 25, 2018 at 4:38 AM
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A thought on duty to the whole world, and why virtue must be an instrument to happiness. 9
- smoothiekiwi
January 15, 2022 at 4:38 PM
- smoothiekiwi
January 16, 2022 at 5:03 PM
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Lucretius AI 4
- sanantoniogarden
January 28, 2024 at 5:50 PM
- sanantoniogarden
January 29, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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Thoughts on Prudence and the Virtues in the Letter to Menoeceus 8
- Root304
August 1, 2022 at 2:06 AM
- Root304
August 2, 2022 at 8:20 PM
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A line of questioning on Epicurean Theology 6
- Root304
August 1, 2022 at 12:18 AM
- Root304
August 21, 2022 at 1:04 AM
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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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Is there a notion of cultivating "sensitivity" in Epicureanism? 4
- Root304
May 27, 2022 at 8:34 PM
- Root304
May 27, 2022 at 10:55 PM
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Epicurus, Ionia and India. 5
- Rivelle
April 6, 2019 at 1:02 AM
- Rivelle
April 7, 2019 at 5:27 AM
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Discussion on Ataraxia: freedom from anxiety....What is it?...How can we attain it in a world mad with chaos and conflict? 24
- Raphael Raul
December 1, 2023 at 11:14 AM
- Raphael Raul
February 22, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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