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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. Torquatus' Statement of the Epicurean View Of The Ultimate Good In "On Ends" 26

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      • September 28, 2021 at 5:35 AM
      • Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End In Itself - All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation
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    1. Episode Ninety - Recap Of Atomism In Preparation for Details of Magnetism 17

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    1. Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit

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      • Modern Research Into Issues Relevant to Canonics
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    1. Comparing Epicurus to German Idealism 9

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      • Comparing Epicurus With Other Philosophers - General Discussion
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    1. George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 7 "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

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    1. Episode Eighty-Nine - Unusual Geological Phenomena - Springs That Change From Hot to Cold And Back Again 2

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    1. Video on Emergent Properties

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      • Bodies And Their Separable and Inseparable Properties And Qualities
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    1. An Anti-Stoic Analysis Of Free Will That May (Or May Not) Be Helpful To Us 4

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      • There Is No Necessity To Live Under the Control of Necessity
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    1. Article: Nietzsche's Overcoming of Humanism - Kuldasi 2

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      • Epicurus vs. Humanism
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    1. 2014 Article By Jonathan Williams - "Happy Violence - Bentley, Lucretius, and the Prehistory of Freethinking. 1

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      • Articles Prepared By Professional Academics
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    1. Episode Eighty-Eight - The Waters of the Nile And The Sulfur Pits That Are Fatal To Birds 3

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    1. Entry For Cassius Longinus in the Jewish Encyclopaedia

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      • Gaius Cassius Longinus
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    1. Is This The True Image of Gaius Cassius Longinus?

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    1. Propositional Logic, Truth Tables, and Epicurus' Objection to "Dialectic" 39

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    1. Munro Translation of Lucretius 16

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    1. Goethe and Epicurus / Lucretius

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    1. Episode Eight-Seven - Earthquakes And The Water Cycle - The Reason The Seas Never Fill Up Over Time 5

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    1. Thoughts on "Rules of Construction" To Apply In Textual Controversies 1

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      • Translators, Translations, Learning Latin & Ancient Greek
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    1. Welcome AGB! 12

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    1. Best Recent Version of Diogenes Laertius? 32

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    1. Episode Eighty-Six - Typhoons and Whirlwinds 6

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    1. Epicurean Symbolism in Herculaneum Art - Something To Track Down 24

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      • Epicurean Philosophy According to Philodemus (General Discussion)
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    1. Who Was Bernard Mandeville and Was He Truly An Epicurean? 13

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      • Search and Identification of Past Epicureans, Real or Fictional
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    1. Welcome Hastingst794!

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    1. Welcome Lucy831!

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    1. Article: Ryan - "Nietzsche's Epicurean Irritability"

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    1. If We Could Commission Davide Baldoni To Do More Scenes From Lucretius, What Would You Suggest They Be?

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    1. Episode Eighty-Five - Thunder and Lightning Part Three - Why Do The Gods Send Thunderbolts Onto Their Own Temples? 6

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