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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. Key Citations On Prudence

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      • Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End In Itself - All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation
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    1. Key Citations On Atoms, Void, and Emergence 4

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    1. Key Citations - Pleasure Is Present When Pain Is Absent

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      • October 4, 2023 at 11:57 AM
      • The Term "Pleasure" Means The Same As "Absence of Pain," And Includes All Experience Which Is Not Painful Not Painful
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    1. Key Citations On Gratitude

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    1. Key Citations - Only Two Feelings: Pleasure And Pain

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      • Only Two Feelings - Pleasure and Pain - The Term Pleasure Includes Tranquility, Meaningfulness, Katastematic, Kinetic, Etc.
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    1. Episode 194 - The Epicurean Arguments In Cicero's On Ends - Book One - Part 04 16

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    1. Welcome Peter Konstans! 15

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    1. October 4, 2023 - Agenda - Wednesday Night Zoom - Vatican Sayings 32 and 33

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    1. For Me Personally, The Most Fundamental Attitudinal Adjustment That Comes From Epicurean Philosophy: "Live Like You Were Dying" 4

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      • Death Is Nothing To Us - No Immortal Soul
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    1. "Cicero' And His Clamorous Silences" - Paper by Javier Aoiz and Marcelo D. Boeri 1

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    1. Episode 193 - Cicero's On Ends - Book One - Part 03 4

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    1. September 27, 2023 Agenda - Wednesday Night Studying the Vatican Sayings - Via Zoom

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    1. September 20, 2023 Agenda - Wednesday Night Studying the Vatican Sayings - Via Zoom

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    1. The Vessel Analogy At The Opening of Lucretius Book Six 14

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    1. Episode 192 - Special Edition - Chapter 16 of A Few Days In Athens 4

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    1. PD09 - Best Translation of PD09 To Feature At EpicureanFriends.com 3

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      • Epicurus - Principal Doctrines
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    1. Episodes of Lucretius Today Podcast at Youtube 1

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    1. 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

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    1. DeWitt on Epicurus' Criticism of Leucippus (and Democritus)

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      • Rejection Of Atomic Reductionism
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    1. Year Calculations 1

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      • News And Forum Updates
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    1. Cicero Attributing To Epicurus The View That Virtuous Action Is Itself Pleasurable 9

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      • Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End In Itself - All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation
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    1. Episode 191 - Cicero's On Ends - Book One - Part 02 21

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    1. Cicero's Argument That Epicureans Do Not Esteem Mental Pleasures

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      • Major Arguments Against Epicurean Philosophy And Responses To Them
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    1. Lucy Hutchinson / Puritans / Cromwell 4

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    1. "All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation"

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    1. What Is The Relationship Between Thoughts or Other Mental Operations And "Images" In Epicurus? 1

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    1. Website - "Piecing Together Diogenes of Oinoanda" 1

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    1. Thomas More and his "Utopia" 4

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      • Notable Opponents of Epicurean Philosophy
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    1. Bruno - "On The Infinite Universe And Worlds" 4

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      • The Universe Is Infinite In Space And Eternal In Time And Has No Gods Over It
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