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Episode 219 of the Lucretius Today Podcast is now available. In this episode we continue to address Cicero's attacks on Epicurus' views on pain.
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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" 4
- Cassius
March 25, 2024 at 9:19 AM
- Cassius
March 25, 2024 at 4:13 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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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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Pleasure as a Synergy: A Critical Discussion of Ataraxia in Epicurean Ethics 4
- Hiram
September 10, 2019 at 10:53 AM
- Hiram
September 11, 2019 at 11:13 AM
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Can You Eat Yourself Happy?
- Hiram
September 6, 2019 at 2:47 PM
- Hiram
September 6, 2019 at 2:47 PM
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A Teachable Moment with Hurricane Dorian
- Hiram
September 4, 2019 at 11:46 AM
- Hiram
September 4, 2019 at 11:46 AM
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The Polytheism of the Epicureans 1
- Hiram
August 28, 2019 at 12:34 PM
- Hiram
August 28, 2019 at 1:40 PM
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Some Thoughts on “The Family”, and How the Doctrine of Determinism is Used By Christian Extremists 1
- Hiram
August 25, 2019 at 2:00 PM
- Hiram
September 4, 2019 at 10:31 PM
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Epitomizing Philosophy and the Critique of Epicurean Popularizers 5
- Hiram
August 23, 2019 at 12:29 PM
- Hiram
August 24, 2019 at 11:59 PM
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Happy Twentieth! On the Importance of Healthy Emotions
- Hiram
August 20, 2019 at 12:53 PM
- Hiram
August 20, 2019 at 12:53 PM
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The Continuing Challenge of Epicureanism - Michael Wilson 14
- Hiram
August 11, 2019 at 12:31 PM
- Hiram
August 12, 2019 at 7:28 AM
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Epicurus' Dying Wishes - James Warren 5
- Hiram
August 9, 2019 at 9:25 AM
- Hiram
August 11, 2019 at 12:25 PM
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Epicurean Education and the Rhetoric of Concern, by Sean McConnell 1
- Hiram
August 8, 2019 at 10:03 AM
- Hiram
August 8, 2019 at 10:18 AM
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Epicureanism and the Enjoyment of True Pleasures 2
- Hiram
August 7, 2019 at 9:32 AM
- Hiram
August 7, 2019 at 1:30 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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Epicurus' On Nature: Books XXV and XXVIII
- Hiram
August 5, 2019 at 2:03 PM
- Hiram
August 5, 2019 at 2:03 PM
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Epicurus on Justice and the Virtues 1
- Hiram
August 2, 2019 at 7:16 PM
- Hiram
August 2, 2019 at 8:39 PM
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Epicurus’ On Nature – Books XI-XIV
- Hiram
July 31, 2019 at 10:00 AM
- Hiram
July 31, 2019 at 10:00 AM
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Epicurus’ On Nature, Books I-X 1
- Hiram
July 25, 2019 at 11:04 AM
- Hiram
July 25, 2019 at 10:13 PM
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How The Christians Wiped Out Epicureanism
- Hiram
July 24, 2019 at 9:43 AM
- Hiram
July 24, 2019 at 9:43 AM
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In memory of the Men 1
- Hiram
July 20, 2019 at 9:51 AM
- Hiram
July 20, 2019 at 11:08 AM
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Why Epicurean ideas suit the challenges of modern secular life 5
- Hiram
July 19, 2019 at 11:44 AM
- Hiram
July 24, 2019 at 9:48 AM
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The Good man is a good financier ... 5
- Hiram
July 15, 2019 at 12:41 PM
- Hiram
July 16, 2019 at 8:51 AM
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Metrodorus’ Epistle to Timocrates 3
- Hiram
July 11, 2019 at 4:14 PM
- Hiram
July 11, 2019 at 5:06 PM
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Polyaenus quotes 3
- Hiram
July 10, 2019 at 5:45 PM
- Hiram
July 10, 2019 at 6:57 PM
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A sage “masters wealth” - Epicurus 1
- Hiram
July 10, 2019 at 1:05 PM
- Hiram
July 10, 2019 at 2:36 PM
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Hermarchus’ Regression of Prayer meme 2
- Hiram
July 10, 2019 at 8:53 AM
- Hiram
July 10, 2019 at 12:46 PM
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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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Ubuntu: African Humanism and Epicurean Philanthropy 1
- Hiram
July 8, 2019 at 12:28 PM
- Hiram
July 8, 2019 at 4:34 PM
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Epicurus "On Nature" - Book 25: On Moral Development
- Hiram
July 8, 2019 at 10:13 AM
- Hiram
July 8, 2019 at 10:13 AM
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Epicurus' On Nature, Books 10, 11 and 12 2
- Hiram
July 3, 2019 at 9:59 AM
- Hiram
July 5, 2019 at 12:15 PM
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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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George Carlin - You have no rights -- reactions? 47
- Hiram
June 27, 2019 at 9:28 AM
- Hiram
September 21, 2020 at 8:02 PM
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