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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Top Ten Recognizable Epicurean "Slogans" 6
- Cassius
March 25, 2024 at 9:19 AM
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April 12, 2024 at 9:33 AM
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Taking The Temperature Of A Six Year Old Forum 12
- Cassius
June 9, 2021 at 11:19 AM
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June 25, 2021 at 8:48 AM
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Creative Assistance Needed! "The Twelve Days of Class With Epicurus" 8
- Cassius
January 4, 2020 at 7:54 PM
- Cassius
January 5, 2020 at 4:37 PM
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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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A Reddit Exchange With Comments 8
- Cassius
September 28, 2019 at 8:02 PM
- Cassius
September 30, 2019 at 9:14 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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We're in the Bible!! 6
- Hiram
March 4, 2019 at 7:20 PM
- Hiram
March 14, 2019 at 2:53 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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Participants' Epicurean Book and Artifact Collections 16
- Cassius
January 17, 2022 at 9:16 AM
- Cassius
January 21, 2022 at 7:42 AM
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How do we feel about Peter Saint-Andre? 6
- Charles
January 14, 2020 at 3:23 PM
- Charles
March 1, 2020 at 5:51 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
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December 13, 2023 at 10:19 PM
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Venus: Conceiving The Good 5
- Cassius
February 26, 2019 at 2:22 PM
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February 27, 2019 at 10:05 AM
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Anandamide: the molecule of pleasure, 4
- Hiram
April 3, 2019 at 3:08 PM
- Hiram
April 5, 2019 at 10:51 AM
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"For Life Has No Terrors . . . " 15
- Cassius
November 11, 2021 at 8:52 AM
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November 14, 2021 at 5:46 AM
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Consideration of the Attic month and Nate's graphic of the moon on the 20th 18
- Kalosyni
November 30, 2022 at 9:10 AM
- Kalosyni
November 30, 2022 at 10:46 PM
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Altruism 10
- Dubitator314
May 30, 2021 at 12:28 PM
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May 31, 2021 at 12:32 AM
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Discussion-Starters With Non-Epicureans: Biblical References to Epicurus / Epicurean Philosophy 5
- Cassius
February 29, 2020 at 7:37 AM
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March 3, 2020 at 1:32 PM
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Epicurean Or Not? "Fiat Justitia ruat caelo" (Let Justice be done though the sky falls) 6
- Cassius
May 31, 2019 at 7:10 PM
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June 1, 2019 at 2:49 AM
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Happy Holidays 6
- Matt
December 25, 2018 at 12:38 PM
- Matt
January 1, 2019 at 12:14 PM
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What Would Epicurus Think of the Big Bang? 35
- Cyrano
January 13, 2024 at 6:19 PM
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January 17, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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Epicurean Verse For When You're Feeling... 18
- Twentier
March 6, 2023 at 9:18 AM
- Twentier
March 9, 2023 at 1:48 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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Epicurean nautical references, allusions, and metaphors in the texts 17
- Don
August 25, 2022 at 5:43 PM
- Don
August 28, 2022 at 8:15 AM
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Translation (A poem) 15
- Don
July 29, 2021 at 9:22 AM
- Don
August 5, 2021 at 8:44 PM
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I'm not going to translate this 5
- michelepinto
May 11, 2019 at 3:42 PM
- michelepinto
May 11, 2019 at 5:46 PM
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Happy Twentieth of September 2019! 7
- Cassius
September 20, 2019 at 7:01 AM
- Cassius
September 20, 2019 at 2:08 PM
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The Garden Then -- and the Garden Now 10
- Kalosyni
April 25, 2022 at 8:07 AM
- Kalosyni
July 20, 2022 at 3:06 AM
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O'Keefe: "Epicurean Advice for the Modern Consumer" 4
- Hiram
July 9, 2019 at 4:15 PM
- Hiram
July 9, 2019 at 5:43 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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A General Thought About The Future Of Epicurean Philosophy - On The Meaning of "Pleasure" 2
- Cassius
April 5, 2018 at 7:50 PM
- Cassius
April 13, 2018 at 12:54 PM
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