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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
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March 17, 2024 at 7:30 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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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
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January 26, 2024 at 7:24 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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"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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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Virtual Archeological Tours 3
- Godfrey
July 11, 2020 at 6:35 PM
- Godfrey
July 11, 2020 at 11:00 PM
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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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Classification of Epicurean Philosophy 4
- Mathitis Kipouros
June 27, 2020 at 12:49 AM
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June 29, 2020 at 3:00 PM
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A Passage That Seems Particularly Appropriate About Now 5
- Cassius
June 19, 2020 at 7:55 AM
- Cassius
June 19, 2020 at 5:07 PM
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"Uninspiring Responses of the Day" Thread 1
- Cassius
June 1, 2020 at 9:57 AM
- Cassius
June 1, 2020 at 4:29 PM
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Etymology & pronunciation of επίκουρος 1
- Don
May 24, 2020 at 5:29 PM
- Don
May 24, 2020 at 6:26 PM
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Empathy vs pleasure 1
- azbcethananderson
May 24, 2020 at 12:17 PM
- azbcethananderson
May 24, 2020 at 2:27 PM
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Somerset Maugham on Epicureanism over one hundred years ago 4
- Jon M
May 23, 2020 at 4:44 PM
- Jon M
May 24, 2020 at 8:41 AM
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Managing Expectations In The Study of Epicurus 28
- Cassius
May 8, 2020 at 10:36 AM
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May 13, 2020 at 8:45 PM
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Yahweh or Zeus? by John Heath 2
- Joshua
May 11, 2020 at 1:56 PM
- Joshua
May 11, 2020 at 4:04 PM
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Florida Panhandle Fires 1
- Joshua
May 7, 2020 at 8:52 AM
- Joshua
May 7, 2020 at 5:17 PM
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Discussion of Article: "Caricatures to the Left of Them, Caricatures to the Right of Them, Caricatures In Front of Them, Volleyed and Thundered" 3
- Cassius
May 4, 2020 at 9:34 AM
- Cassius
May 4, 2020 at 3:36 PM
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How To Convert A Neo-Epicurean Into A Classical Epicurean 24
- Cassius
January 15, 2020 at 8:33 AM
- Cassius
May 2, 2020 at 3:00 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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Epicurean Ethics And the Coronavirus Episode - A Starting Point 3
- Cassius
April 29, 2020 at 8:02 AM
- Cassius
April 29, 2020 at 6:11 PM
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The Essential Cicero? 3
- Joshua
April 28, 2020 at 7:10 PM
- Joshua
April 29, 2020 at 8:04 AM
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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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Poem - To Boccaccio 3
- Joshua
April 21, 2020 at 9:14 AM
- Joshua
April 21, 2020 at 10:42 AM
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Happy Twentieth! 5
- Joshua
April 20, 2020 at 2:37 PM
- Joshua
April 21, 2020 at 1:02 AM
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Quiz Feature - Ongoing DIscussion 6
- Cassius
April 5, 2020 at 6:24 AM
- Cassius
April 5, 2020 at 5:09 PM
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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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Dicussion of Elli's Article: On The Ill Health of Epicurus vs. The Insanity Of The Modern World 3
- Cassius
March 19, 2020 at 3:27 PM
- Cassius
March 24, 2020 at 2:34 PM
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Athens and the Open Library 8
- Joshua
October 20, 2019 at 6:18 PM
- Joshua
March 24, 2020 at 2:06 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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Happy Twentieth of March 2020! 3
- Cassius
March 20, 2020 at 7:20 AM
- Cassius
March 20, 2020 at 10:24 AM
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On Covid19 And Ruthlessly Taking The Measure Of Our Values (New York Times Article by Stephen Greenblatt) 8
- Cassius
March 17, 2020 at 8:17 AM
- Cassius
March 17, 2020 at 5:18 PM
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A Discussion on the Epicurean View of Death 3
- profkesarsarwara
March 12, 2020 at 5:16 AM
- profkesarsarwara
March 12, 2020 at 10:00 AM
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An Analogy 2
- Joshua
March 9, 2020 at 7:12 PM
- Joshua
March 9, 2020 at 8:29 PM
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