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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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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
- shahabgh66
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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What Epicurus Might Say In Response To Common Cliches
- Kalosyni
April 12, 2024 at 3:47 PM
- Kalosyni
April 12, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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On Use Of The Term Apikoros / Apiqoros / Bikouros Against Epicureans 23
- Cassius
December 17, 2018 at 9:14 AM
- Cassius
April 11, 2024 at 10:35 PM
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Daily Reflection from an Epicurean View 6
- Chryso
April 2, 2024 at 12:11 AM
- Chryso
April 2, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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The pleasure ideal: Epicurean vs Cyrenaic 3
- Peter Konstans
March 29, 2024 at 2:01 PM
- Peter Konstans
March 31, 2024 at 11:13 AM
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Sports are fun but is exercise really something Epicurus would have lauded? 5
- Peter Konstans
March 14, 2024 at 1:33 PM
- Peter Konstans
March 31, 2024 at 10:51 AM
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Is 'happiness' a proper translation of the term eudaimonia? 23
- Peter Konstans
March 25, 2024 at 6:35 AM
- Peter Konstans
March 30, 2024 at 10:35 AM
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Elli - On Euphronius
- Cassius
March 28, 2024 at 7:01 PM
- Cassius
March 28, 2024 at 7:01 PM
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Placita by Aetius 5
- Bryan
March 25, 2024 at 7:57 PM
- Bryan
March 26, 2024 at 12:09 PM
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Simple Video On Epicurus and His Atomism
- Cassius
March 24, 2024 at 8:40 AM
- Cassius
March 24, 2024 at 8:40 AM
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Modern Online Public Domain Expanded Usener Collection
- Cassius
March 24, 2024 at 5:57 AM
- Cassius
March 24, 2024 at 5:57 AM
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Erler's view on 'True Epicurean Politics' 7
- Peter Konstans
March 22, 2024 at 2:01 PM
- Peter Konstans
March 24, 2024 at 5:34 AM
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Hermann Usener's 'Glossarium Epicureum' 6
- TauPhi
February 1, 2024 at 6:51 PM
- TauPhi
March 21, 2024 at 10:59 AM
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Live to 120? I’d rather go for quality not quantity of life… 3
- Don
March 17, 2024 at 1:12 PM
- Don
March 17, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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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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Non-reversing mirror
- Bryan
March 12, 2024 at 9:57 PM
- Bryan
March 12, 2024 at 9:57 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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The Covered Father 8
- Bryan
March 2, 2024 at 9:43 PM
- Bryan
March 6, 2024 at 10:29 PM
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Alciphron, Letters, Letters of the Courtesans: Leontion to Lamia (Fictional Epistle) 8
- Charles
June 9, 2020 at 8:01 PM
- Charles
March 4, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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Death of Titus Pomponius Atticus, 32 BC (Sun, Mar 31st 2024) 2
- Joshua
March 3, 2024 at 11:16 AM
- Joshua
March 3, 2024 at 11:57 AM
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If We Agree For The Sake of Argument That "The Perfect Should Not Be The Enemy of The Good," then let's ask "What *Should* We Consider To Be The Proper Relationship Between The Perfect And The Good?" 8
- Cassius
February 26, 2024 at 4:43 PM
- Cassius
February 29, 2024 at 12:22 AM
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Nate's "First Generation Epicureans" Research
- Cassius
February 27, 2024 at 4:57 PM
- Cassius
February 27, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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Given The Stress That Many Greek Philosophers' Placed On "Virtue" or a perfect view of "The Good" As The Ultimate Goal, To What Extent Would An Epicurus Have Considered That Approach An "Unnatural and Unnecessary Desire?" 4
- Cassius
February 26, 2024 at 4:51 PM
- Cassius
February 26, 2024 at 10:48 PM
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Discussion on Ataraxia: freedom from anxiety....What is it?...How can we attain it in a world mad with chaos and conflict? 24
- Raphael Raul
December 1, 2023 at 11:14 AM
- Raphael Raul
February 22, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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Epicurean Philosophical Tenets That We Can Know With Certainty 1
- Kalosyni
February 22, 2024 at 11:05 AM
- Kalosyni
February 22, 2024 at 1:30 PM
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Idola Fori
- DavidN
February 21, 2024 at 7:12 AM
- DavidN
February 21, 2024 at 7:12 AM
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Discussion of New Substack Article: "A Gate To Be Burst: Absence of Pain" 27
- Cassius
February 11, 2024 at 5:57 PM
- Cassius
February 13, 2024 at 12:29 AM
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Joseph Thompson - "Lucretius Or Paul?" 1875 7
- Don
February 12, 2024 at 7:20 PM
- Don
February 12, 2024 at 8:40 PM
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One of the Greatest Epicureans of All? 8
- Cyrano
February 8, 2024 at 6:06 PM
- Cyrano
February 9, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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Epicurus And Pleasure As The Awareness Of Smooth Motion 13
- Cassius
May 10, 2023 at 9:18 AM
- Cassius
February 6, 2024 at 12:24 PM
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Pliny the Elder's Villa Found?
- kochiekoch
February 5, 2024 at 4:37 PM
- kochiekoch
February 5, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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