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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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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Arrakis 1
- Joshua
September 18, 2022 at 10:05 PM
- Joshua
September 19, 2022 at 4:44 AM
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Phantasmatic Shakespeare, by Suparna Roychoudhury
- Joshua
June 30, 2022 at 4:50 PM
- Joshua
June 30, 2022 at 4:50 PM
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The Last Words of Charles Darwin 8
- Joshua
April 19, 2022 at 10:53 PM
- Joshua
May 4, 2022 at 9:42 PM
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Sir William Temple, "Upon the Gardens of Epicurus", 1685 5
- Joshua
March 11, 2022 at 8:41 PM
- Joshua
July 20, 2022 at 3:28 AM
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The 422nd Anniversary of the Execution of Giordano Bruno 2
- Joshua
February 17, 2022 at 6:01 PM
- Joshua
February 18, 2022 at 2:36 AM
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Greenblatt and his Detractors 13
- Joshua
February 1, 2022 at 2:08 PM
- Joshua
February 3, 2022 at 11:47 AM
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The Amazonian Tribe That Won't Believe in God 2
- Joshua
November 16, 2021 at 11:16 PM
- Joshua
November 19, 2021 at 12:36 PM
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Fun with Ambigrams 3
- Joshua
October 3, 2021 at 12:45 PM
- Joshua
October 3, 2021 at 1:24 PM
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The Pocket Epicurean by John Sellars 4
- Joshua
September 22, 2021 at 10:59 PM
- Joshua
September 23, 2021 at 11:35 PM
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A Special Night in Iowa 1
- Joshua
August 12, 2021 at 9:15 PM
- Joshua
August 12, 2021 at 9:18 PM
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Martial, Ode on Mount Vesuvius 5
- Joshua
August 8, 2021 at 4:53 PM
- Joshua
August 8, 2021 at 10:14 PM
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John Adams and the "Ineffable Nonsense of Epicurus" 2
- Joshua
May 29, 2021 at 11:08 PM
- Joshua
May 30, 2021 at 11:04 AM
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David Attenborough on Lucretius 2
- Joshua
May 6, 2021 at 12:28 AM
- Joshua
May 6, 2021 at 9:18 AM
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Albert Einstein, "Foreword to Lucretius" 16
- Joshua
March 5, 2021 at 7:28 PM
- Joshua
March 14, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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A Sobering Look at Google Ngrams 4
- Joshua
February 18, 2021 at 10:32 PM
- Joshua
February 19, 2021 at 8:40 AM
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In Imitation of Lucretius–Bevil Higgons, 1670 to 1735 3
- Joshua
January 15, 2021 at 9:39 PM
- Joshua
January 16, 2021 at 4:28 AM
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"The Rise and Fall of Alexandria", Howard Reid and Justin Pollard 11
- Joshua
November 19, 2020 at 7:26 PM
- Joshua
December 1, 2020 at 6:30 PM
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Poem - Firewood
- Joshua
November 3, 2020 at 12:25 AM
- Joshua
November 3, 2020 at 12:25 AM
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The Lamps are Going Out All Over the Imperium 1
- Joshua
October 15, 2020 at 6:40 PM
- Joshua
October 15, 2020 at 9:01 PM
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Poem - The Heron 2
- Joshua
September 9, 2020 at 5:45 PM
- Joshua
September 9, 2020 at 6:29 PM
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Chris Rodda, "Liars for Jesus" 4
- Joshua
July 16, 2020 at 1:50 PM
- Joshua
July 16, 2020 at 7:35 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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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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The Essential Cicero? 3
- Joshua
April 28, 2020 at 7:10 PM
- Joshua
April 29, 2020 at 8:04 AM
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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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An Analogy 2
- Joshua
March 9, 2020 at 7:12 PM
- Joshua
March 9, 2020 at 8:29 PM
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Epicurus and the Art of Land Surveying 2
- Joshua
January 23, 2020 at 10:47 PM
- Joshua
January 24, 2020 at 8:22 AM
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It was a pleasure 2
- Joshua
January 17, 2020 at 9:17 AM
- Joshua
January 17, 2020 at 11:07 AM
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