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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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"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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Neuroscience of Happiness and Pleasure -- Morten L. Kringelbach and Kent C. Berridge 2
- Kalosyni
June 27, 2022 at 7:53 PM
- Kalosyni
June 27, 2022 at 8:53 PM
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Navigating Family Prayer 5
- Joshua
December 21, 2019 at 10:17 PM
- Joshua
December 22, 2019 at 9:47 PM
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Natural versus Unnatural 12
- Matt
December 30, 2020 at 8:54 AM
- Matt
January 10, 2021 at 12:33 PM
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Natural Goods in Epicureanism 10
- Kalosyni
June 12, 2022 at 9:06 AM
- Kalosyni
June 12, 2022 at 8:09 PM
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Nate's Latest Graphical Calendar of Epicurus' Birthday
- Cassius
May 29, 2023 at 2:15 PM
- Cassius
May 29, 2023 at 2:15 PM
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Nate's Latest Graphic - "Epicurus Cannot Be Wrestled"
- Cassius
May 20, 2022 at 10:39 AM
- Cassius
May 20, 2022 at 10:39 AM
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Nate's Compilation of Alternative Translations of the Principal Doctrines 12
- Cassius
October 8, 2021 at 1:28 PM
- Cassius
November 25, 2021 at 9:19 AM
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Nate's "First Generation Epicureans" Research
- Cassius
February 27, 2024 at 4:57 PM
- Cassius
February 27, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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Nate's "Drake Meme" Graphics 5
- Cassius
May 16, 2019 at 6:16 AM
- Cassius
May 16, 2019 at 8:01 PM
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Nate's "Back of the Book" Graphic 5
- Cassius
May 13, 2021 at 9:40 AM
- Cassius
May 13, 2021 at 9:09 PM
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Names Applied to the Epicureans by Themselves Or Others 4
- Cassius
October 25, 2019 at 12:38 PM
- Cassius
October 25, 2019 at 6:25 PM
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Mythological Discussions - Greek mythology and other myths compared and analyzed 3
- Matt
January 12, 2019 at 8:48 AM
- Matt
January 12, 2019 at 10:27 AM
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My video summary of Epicurean philosophy 3
- Eoghan Gardiner
July 12, 2020 at 8:59 AM
- Eoghan Gardiner
July 13, 2020 at 1:53 AM
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My Plans For 2021 13
- Cassius
January 5, 2021 at 2:18 PM
- Cassius
March 17, 2021 at 10:13 AM
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My latest author blog on Goodreads: Epicurean Economics and a Few Updates 13
- Hiram
May 23, 2019 at 10:54 AM
- Hiram
May 30, 2019 at 8:57 PM
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My Best Summary As Of November 2018
- Cassius
November 2, 2018 at 7:01 AM
- Cassius
November 2, 2018 at 7:01 AM
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My 2024 Resolution: Get A More Accurate Picture of Epicurean Pleasure To The World Rather Than "Tranquility" or "Live Unkown"(Comment on Irish Times Article) 15
- Cassius
January 1, 2024 at 7:03 AM
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January 27, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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Musings on A Quick Statement of "What It Means to Be An Epicurean" 9
- Cassius
July 13, 2020 at 10:57 PM
- Cassius
July 16, 2020 at 4:34 PM
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Multiple Components Comprise the Epicurean Life 30
- Kalosyni
October 21, 2021 at 7:59 PM
- Kalosyni
October 23, 2021 at 1:53 PM
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More Sluething -This Time Against Cicero 1
- Cassius
October 3, 2022 at 8:38 PM
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October 3, 2022 at 8:48 PM
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Modern Science Meets the Canon 8
- Godfrey
June 2, 2019 at 8:44 PM
- Godfrey
June 4, 2019 at 3:33 PM
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Modern Online Public Domain Expanded Usener Collection
- Cassius
March 24, 2024 at 5:57 AM
- Cassius
March 24, 2024 at 5:57 AM
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Moderation Notice 1
- Joshua
October 5, 2023 at 12:18 AM
- Joshua
October 5, 2023 at 5:15 AM
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Mochus (or Moschus) the Phoenician 1
- Joshua
July 6, 2020 at 1:53 PM
- Joshua
July 6, 2020 at 2:55 PM
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Mises UK piece "Epicurus, Father of the Enlightenment 2
- Hiram
September 18, 2018 at 10:43 AM
- Hiram
September 18, 2018 at 1:23 PM
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Mike Anyayahan's Blog: Epicureanmindset.blogspot.com 17
- Cassius
February 14, 2020 at 9:23 AM
- Cassius
February 24, 2020 at 5:39 AM
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Michel de Montaigne on pleasure 9
- Godfrey
April 30, 2020 at 6:19 PM
- Godfrey
May 1, 2020 at 5:20 PM
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Metrodorus’ Epistle to Timocrates 3
- Hiram
July 11, 2019 at 4:14 PM
- Hiram
July 11, 2019 at 5:06 PM
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Metaphorically Picturing Epicurean Philosophy 31
- Cassius
January 10, 2023 at 8:32 AM
- Cassius
January 12, 2023 at 1:27 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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