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New Graphics: Are You On Team Epicurus? | Comparison Chart: Epicurus vs. Other Philosophies | Chart Of Key Epicurean Quotations | Accelerating Study Of Canonics Through Philodemus' "On Methods Of Inference" | Note to all users: If you have a problem posting in any forum, please message Cassius  

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    1. Episode 214 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 21 - Cicero Argues For An Ideal View of Friendship and Happiness Which Epicureans Reject 8

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    1. 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.'” 16

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    1. Place to Discuss Epicurean Organizational Theory and Practice

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    1. Episode 213 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 20 - No One But You Epicureans Define Pleasure As You Do! Why Do You Disguise Yourselves? 4

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    1. Episode 212 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 19 - Can "Pleasure" Be Defended In The Public Square? 6

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    1. Pros and Cons Of Considering Epicurean Philosophy To Be A "Religion" 119

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    1. "All Models Are Wrong, But Some Are Useful" 5

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    1. Episode 211 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 18 - Battle Of The Images 10

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    1. Apion An Epicurean(?) 8

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    1. Episode 210 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 17 - Self-Approval As Pleasure 2

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    1. Interview With Dr. David Glidden: "Epicurean Prolepsis"

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    1. Interview With Dr. Marcelo Boeri: Theory and Practice In Epicurean Political Philosophy

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