Pleasure As The "Highest Good"

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    2. Journal of happiness studies article on Epicurus 8

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    2. Consequentialism & Moral Relativism within the context of Pleasure-filled Philosophy 27

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    2. Comment at the Epicurean Philosophy Facebook Group On Pleasure As The Highest Good 23

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    2. Pleasure: ruminations from sequestration 7

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    2. How Much Pleasure Is Needed For A Happy Life? 1

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    2. Pleasure vs Happiness (?) Discussion of Hiram's "In Defense of Eudaimonia" 36

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    2. Is Pleasure the Only Good? 7

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    2. Nature and Pleasure and Pain 9

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    2. Another Aspect of PD3's "The Limit of Quantity In Pleasures..." - Pleasure Is A Matter For Individual / Flexible Measurement

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    2. A List of Objections To Epicurus From A Modern Christian - Hyde's "From Epicurus To Christ"

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    2. Nature Didn't Give Us A Faculty of "Something Else"

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    2. An Exchange On The Subject of Ataraxia As "The Ultimate Pleasure"

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    2. Commentary on "The Ultimate Tranquilizer"

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    2. Considering the Importance of Mental Pleasures 3

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    2. Pleasure As the Goal - A Blog Post by Eoghan Gardiner

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    2. Another Summary, This Time Prompted by Eoghan

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    2. How epicureanism has been helping me deal with overindulgence 6

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    2. More on "Simple Pleasures" 3

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Key Discussions Table

Physics: Canonics: Ethics:
Materiality:  Ultimate Particles and Void
 The Three Components of The Epicurean Canon Pleasure As the Highest Good
Epicurean Gods And Life Elsewhere In The Universe
 Epicurean Logic And Reason Virtue As Instrumental To Pleasure
The Impossibility of Life After Death
 The Trustworthiness of the Senses The Relationship of Pleasure To Absence of Pain And Disturbance
The Existence of "the Swerve"
 Knowledge And Truth Emotion In Epicurean Philosophy
The Universe As Eternal In Time
 The Significance of "Images" Engagement With The Non-Epicurean World
The Universe As Infinite In Space
Agency / Free Will
The Universe As Having No Center
Friendship in Epicurean Philosophy
The Impossibility of Infinite Divisibility
 Justice in Epicurean Philosophy

Dealing With Adversity