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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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Hey guys I created new video against the Stoic idea that virtue is goal of life. Hope you enjoy 2
- Eoghan Gardiner
August 3, 2020 at 12:42 PM
- Eoghan Gardiner
August 3, 2020 at 3:25 PM
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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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Epicurean Blog 3
- Eoghan Gardiner
May 7, 2018 at 2:21 PM
- Eoghan Gardiner
May 7, 2018 at 4:50 PM
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On the associations between Virtue and Pleasure and my Epicurean Write up 1
- Eoghan Gardiner
March 27, 2018 at 4:43 AM
- Eoghan Gardiner
March 27, 2018 at 7:56 AM
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HAPPY NEW YEAR 6
- Elli
December 31, 2020 at 6:15 PM
- Elli
January 1, 2021 at 10:06 AM
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The Breakdown Of Our Modern Societies! 1
- Elli
March 28, 2020 at 2:45 PM
- Elli
March 28, 2020 at 2:49 PM
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A Man’s Neighbor And His Dog (PDs' 32 & 39 &40)
- Elli
November 5, 2018 at 10:36 AM
- Elli
November 5, 2018 at 10:36 AM
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Epicurean Philosophy for Parents 1
- Elayne
February 22, 2021 at 7:51 AM
- Elayne
February 22, 2021 at 9:14 AM
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Wanting vs Liking
- Elayne
January 24, 2021 at 9:05 AM
- Elayne
January 24, 2021 at 9:05 AM
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An Approach to Reading Philosophy 3
- Elayne
December 31, 2019 at 9:20 AM
- Elayne
December 31, 2019 at 7:16 PM
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Pleasure and Reality 23
- Elayne
April 8, 2019 at 9:57 AM
- Elayne
April 14, 2019 at 7:33 AM
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Altruism 10
- Dubitator314
May 30, 2021 at 12:28 PM
- Dubitator314
May 31, 2021 at 12:32 AM
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Live to 120? I’d rather go for quality not quantity of life… 3
- Don
March 17, 2024 at 1:12 PM
- Don
March 17, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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Joseph Thompson - "Lucretius Or Paul?" 1875 7
- Don
February 12, 2024 at 7:20 PM
- Don
February 12, 2024 at 8:40 PM
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We're Are Not Just Our Brains! 1
- Don
January 30, 2024 at 9:53 PM
- Don
January 30, 2024 at 11:36 PM
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For all you Celtic Epicureans! 1
- Don
January 13, 2024 at 5:41 PM
- Don
January 13, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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The True Scale of Atoms 14
- Don
December 23, 2023 at 10:26 PM
- Don
December 26, 2023 at 12:03 PM
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Ioannis Stratakis (Podium Arts) releases Letter to Menoeceus!! 3
- Don
November 23, 2023 at 1:12 PM
- Don
November 23, 2023 at 7:07 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving! 10
- Don
November 23, 2023 at 9:55 AM
- Don
November 25, 2023 at 4:52 AM
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Augustine of Hippo, The City of God, XI.5; & Theophilus of Antioch, To Autolycus, III.6 8
- Don
November 10, 2023 at 7:47 AM
- Don
November 11, 2023 at 3:06 PM
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The Suda, 10th Century Byzantine Encyclopedia 2
- Don
November 6, 2023 at 8:28 AM
- Don
November 6, 2023 at 8:54 AM
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Happy 20th! What?! 1
- Don
August 6, 2023 at 2:39 PM
- Don
August 6, 2023 at 9:14 PM
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Julie Giovacchini - "The Tetrapharmakos, Authentic Formula Or Simplistic Summary Of Epicurean Ethics?" 5
- Don
August 3, 2023 at 1:35 PM
- Don
August 4, 2023 at 2:33 PM
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Lucretius Book Study Group (SASA) 6
- Don
May 12, 2023 at 8:59 AM
- Don
May 13, 2023 at 8:23 AM
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Bart Ehrman mentions Epicurus and the forged letters 9
- Don
April 22, 2023 at 8:49 PM
- Don
April 30, 2023 at 1:03 PM
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Essenes or Epicureans? 3
- Don
March 29, 2023 at 8:02 AM
- Don
March 29, 2023 at 1:56 PM
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Fortune cookie 1
- Don
January 27, 2023 at 11:49 PM
- Don
January 28, 2023 at 2:21 PM
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If only there were an EpicuruCon... 8
- Don
November 5, 2022 at 12:34 PM
- Don
November 7, 2022 at 4:33 AM
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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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