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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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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
- burninglights
March 17, 2024 at 7:30 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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"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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Piero de Cosimo's Lucretius - Inspired Paintings 9
- Joshua
July 26, 2023 at 9:34 PM
- Joshua
July 27, 2023 at 5:58 PM
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Philosophers in the Rain (cartoon)
- Don
December 23, 2020 at 10:54 AM
- Don
December 23, 2020 at 10:54 AM
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Philosofy in Italy 4
- michelepinto
May 1, 2019 at 4:38 PM
- michelepinto
May 2, 2019 at 6:59 AM
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Philodemus On the Senses 8
- Bryan
January 30, 2024 at 12:01 AM
- Bryan
February 1, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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Philodemus and Epicurean Philosophy: Changing Perceptions - Sonya Wurster 1
- Hiram
August 5, 2019 at 8:07 PM
- Hiram
August 6, 2019 at 7:58 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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Pewdiepie Gets it Wrong - The Problem Isn't "Virtue Signaling" - The Problem is "Virtue" Itself
- Cassius
December 17, 2019 at 1:15 PM
- Cassius
December 17, 2019 at 1:15 PM
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Perspectives On "Proving" That Pleasure is "The Good" 205
- Todd
December 19, 2022 at 4:34 PM
- Todd
November 28, 2023 at 1:28 PM
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Perfect As The Enemy of The Good 25
- Cassius
May 18, 2023 at 10:30 AM
- Cassius
March 7, 2024 at 2:46 PM
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Peace and Safety For Those in The Path of Hurricane Dorian! 4
- Cassius
September 3, 2019 at 6:58 PM
- Cassius
September 4, 2019 at 9:36 PM
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Paul Thyry (Baron D'Holbach / Mirabaud) - French / German Sympathizer With Some Epicurean Ideas 44
- Cassius
December 16, 2023 at 8:42 AM
- Cassius
December 30, 2023 at 8:10 PM
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Participation Level February 2023
- Cassius
February 21, 2023 at 10:52 AM
- Cassius
February 21, 2023 at 10:52 AM
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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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Parsing The Wikipedia Introduction To Epicurus (As Of February 6, 2020)
- Cassius
February 6, 2020 at 9:48 AM
- Cassius
February 6, 2020 at 9:48 AM
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Overcome Suicidal Ideation and Find Greater Meaning in Life 1
- Kalosyni
October 14, 2022 at 10:19 AM
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October 14, 2022 at 11:32 AM
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Outlines and More Outlines - "The main heads [to which] we must continually return..."
- Cassius
January 30, 2016 at 9:43 AM
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January 30, 2016 at 9:43 AM
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Opening of EpicurusToday.com News Aggregator
- Cassius
December 6, 2017 at 7:48 PM
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December 6, 2017 at 7:48 PM
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Open Skype Conference Call Tomorrow 1
- Cassius
July 27, 2019 at 12:26 PM
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July 28, 2019 at 9:44 AM
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Onenski's Recent Philosophy Presentation 1
- Cassius
March 23, 2023 at 9:09 AM
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March 23, 2023 at 7:43 PM
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One of the Greatest Epicureans of All? 8
- Cyrano
February 8, 2024 at 6:06 PM
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February 9, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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On The Decline of Epicurean Philosophy In The Ancient World 2
- Cassius
August 18, 2019 at 12:19 PM
- Cassius
August 19, 2019 at 2:20 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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On Nature And Perfect Forms
- Cassius
June 10, 2019 at 10:31 AM
- Cassius
June 10, 2019 at 10:31 AM
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On Living Unknown While Locating Your School In A High Traffic Area
- Cassius
June 12, 2019 at 1:43 PM
- Cassius
June 12, 2019 at 1:43 PM
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On Ice Cream And Epicurean Philosophy 21
- Cassius
May 14, 2019 at 4:34 PM
- Cassius
May 19, 2019 at 3:53 PM
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On Freedom And Happines -- A Post By Elayne
- Cassius
September 6, 2019 at 6:46 PM
- Cassius
September 6, 2019 at 6:46 PM
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On Epicurean Economics
- Hiram
February 20, 2019 at 8:35 AM
- Hiram
February 20, 2019 at 8:35 AM
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On Epicurean Chaplaincy 8
- Hiram
July 2, 2019 at 11:24 AM
- Hiram
July 22, 2019 at 2:00 PM
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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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