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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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What does a government based on Epicureanism look like? 2
- Hiram
January 9, 2019 at 9:35 AM
- Hiram
February 24, 2019 at 4:36 PM
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Why was Epicurus condemned to the sixth circle of hell in Dante's Divine Comedy? 3
- Hiram
January 7, 2019 at 10:55 AM
- Hiram
January 7, 2019 at 11:51 AM
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Hiram Crespo on The Pursuit of Happiness, Epicurean Philosophy, and Changing Your Mindset 6
- Hiram
December 14, 2018 at 2:23 PM
- Hiram
December 17, 2018 at 12:22 PM
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Vatican Sayings – Brief Study Guide
- Hiram
November 25, 2018 at 1:05 PM
- Hiram
November 25, 2018 at 1:05 PM
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Society of Epicurus now has a sub-reddit 1
- Hiram
November 9, 2018 at 12:20 PM
- Hiram
November 9, 2018 at 1:54 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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Epicurean Freedom. Enslavement by culture. The mob. 15
- Harrington Andros
April 19, 2018 at 12:42 PM
- Harrington Andros
May 14, 2018 at 12:11 PM
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A psychologist and a functional medicine practitioner discuss happiness, eudaimonia, wellness, free will and more 10
- Godfrey
August 13, 2021 at 1:23 AM
- Godfrey
December 30, 2023 at 6:16 PM
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American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) 3
- Godfrey
February 27, 2021 at 4:56 PM
- Godfrey
February 28, 2021 at 7:02 AM
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Maximus of Tyre, Socrates and Epicurus 1
- Godfrey
November 22, 2020 at 4:12 PM
- Godfrey
November 22, 2020 at 6:05 PM
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Virtual Archeological Tours 3
- Godfrey
July 11, 2020 at 6:35 PM
- Godfrey
July 11, 2020 at 11:00 PM
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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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Some notes on Plato’s Republic (actually on the Cliffs Notes thereof) 6
- Godfrey
April 23, 2020 at 8:34 PM
- Godfrey
April 24, 2020 at 3:40 PM
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A foodie ponders Epicurus the epicurean 6
- Godfrey
February 9, 2020 at 3:38 PM
- Godfrey
February 10, 2020 at 12:34 AM
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Access to conversation denied 5
- Godfrey
September 8, 2019 at 5:54 PM
- Godfrey
September 9, 2019 at 1:17 PM
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Herculaneum preservation 7
- Godfrey
June 11, 2019 at 7:54 PM
- Godfrey
June 12, 2019 at 8:54 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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Epicurean virtues listed by importance 8
- godek
January 28, 2019 at 8:45 PM
- godek
February 1, 2019 at 7:47 AM
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Free Epicurean Materials Torrent Content Suggestions 5
- godek
December 12, 2018 at 7:05 PM
- godek
December 13, 2018 at 5:26 PM
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Is Self Preservation a Virtue? 15
- Garden Dweller
November 7, 2019 at 8:10 AM
- Garden Dweller
November 8, 2019 at 7:13 PM
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Calculus, Minimalism, Consumerism, Finding the Path 15
- Garden Dweller
October 11, 2019 at 10:28 PM
- Garden Dweller
October 18, 2019 at 11:37 AM
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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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A Pleasant Life instead of Pleasure 7
- EricR
August 4, 2023 at 8:14 AM
- EricR
August 5, 2023 at 8:27 PM
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Sharing Zoom sessions 6
- EricR
August 2, 2023 at 8:52 AM
- EricR
August 3, 2023 at 8:15 PM
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"The Philosophical Mind" enters the skull of Epicurus 12
- EricR
July 19, 2023 at 9:05 AM
- EricR
July 27, 2023 at 11:12 AM
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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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What holds me back from embracing EP 29
- EricR
March 1, 2022 at 11:03 AM
- EricR
July 20, 2022 at 8:09 PM
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Rarely read writer DeCasseres on Epicurus' great discovery 8
- EricR
February 27, 2022 at 8:01 AM
- EricR
February 27, 2022 at 4:45 PM
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Ecclesiastes what insights can we gleam from it? 1
- Eoghan Gardiner
December 2, 2023 at 6:11 AM
- Eoghan Gardiner
December 2, 2023 at 6:30 AM
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Inquiry into Eclecticism: Assessing its Benefits to Epicurean Philosophy 16
- Eoghan Gardiner
November 22, 2023 at 3:40 PM
- Eoghan Gardiner
November 26, 2023 at 5:13 PM
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