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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. What Did Epicurus Include in "Pleasure?" 2

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      • March 31, 2019 at 10:01 AM
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    1. Charles Darwin 6

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    1. What Makes Someone "An Epicurean?" 20

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      • Epicurean Life Strategies for Modern Times
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    1. Italian Artwork With Representtions of Epicurus 6

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      • Epicurean Art After Classical Antiquity
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    1. Silicon Valley, Big Tech, And Stoicism

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      • Epicurus vs. the Stoics (Zeno, Chrysippus, Cleanthes, Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius)
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    1. Daily Practices 9

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    1. Epicurean Thoughts On Taking Action

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    1. Epicurean Passages Relevant to Justice / Relations Among Communities 2

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    1. "Natural and Necessary" As A Sliding Scale 3

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    1. Lucian: The Death of Peregrine - Epicurean Commentary on Christianity

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      • Lucian of Samosata - General
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    1. Epicurean Self-Sufficiency - Video Of A Short Address from the 2013 Promethea Conference in Greece - By George Kaplanis

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    1. Gallery of Artwork Dedicated to Venus In the Lucretian Manner

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    1. Welcome PhilKnecht44! 1

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    1. An Exchange On The Use of Logic To Argue The "Absence of Pain" Issue

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      • March 22, 2019 at 2:30 PM
      • 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. Topics For Continuing Discussion - Would You Like To See A New Subforum For Something Special?

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    1. "Filling The Gas Tank of Life"

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    1. Happy Belated 20th - And Thoughts On Suicide from An Epicurean Perspective 5

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    1. Collection of Nietzsche Quotes Relevant To Epicurean Philosophy 2

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    1. The March 2019 "This Month In Epicurean Philosophy" is now out!

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    1. Martha Nussbaum

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    1. Planning a Live Convention / Seminar In The United States

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    1. DeWitt's "Organization And Procedure In Epicurean Groups" 7

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    1. "Mars Being Disarmed by Venus" - Jacques-Louis David

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    1. More Epicurean News from Athens, Greece, via Christos Yapijakis: 1st Panhellenic Meeting of Happiness "Happiness is a Human Right" 2

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    1. PD08 - Visualizing Principal Doctrine Eight 1

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    1. Elli On Arete / Virtue

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      • Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End In Itself - All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation
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