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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. Discussion of Article: "Caricatures to the Left of Them, Caricatures to the Right of Them, Caricatures In Front of Them, Volleyed and Thundered" 3

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    1. Epicurean Ethics And the Coronavirus Episode - A Starting Point 3

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    1. Episode Seventeen - All Things Are Not Made of Fire, And Heraclitus Was A Fool 2

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    1. Episode Sixteen - The Atoms Are Un-Destroyable And Provide Continuity To All Nature 1

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    1. The Doctrine of Necessity In "A Few Days In Athens"

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    1. Cassius Longinus' Letters to and From Cicero 3

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    1. Welcome Phell! 2

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    1. Article by Norman DeWitt: Epicurus, ΠϵρὶΦαντασίας (Present Impressions of the Mind) 2

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    1. Article: Norman DeWitt - "Epicurean Kinetics" (Examining a Passage on Motion To Illuminate the Canon of Truth) 1

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    1. On Syllogisms And the Differences Between Aristotle/Plato and Epicurus 1

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    1. Episode Fifteen - Recap Two 1

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    1. Episode Fourteen - Atoms Are Solid And Indestructible, and Constitute the Seeds of All Things. 6

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    1. BBC - The Forum - Interview With Catherine Wilson, David Sedley, Sonya Wurster (April 2020)

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    1. Opportunities for Activism And Collaboration Here At EpicureanFriends.com 33

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    1. Welcome WFC! 1

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    1. Catherine Wilson Interviewed By Robert Wright

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    1. Episode Thirteen - Properties, Qualities, And the Trojan War 8

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    1. Hypotheticals: Would An Epicurean Hook Himself Up To An "Experience Machine" or a "Pleasure Machine"? 32

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    1. Episode Twelve - Nothing But Combinations Of Matter And Void 7

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    1. Philodemus Article Referencing Importance of Fidelity to Original Teachings of Epicurus

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    1. Dicussion of Elli's Article: On The Ill Health of Epicurus vs. The Insanity Of The Modern World 3

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    1. On Covid19 And Ruthlessly Taking The Measure Of Our Values (New York Times Article by Stephen Greenblatt) 8

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    1. Episode Eleven - More On The Void And Its Implications 4

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