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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. Illusions and Trusting the Senses - An Example

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      • May 16, 2018 at 9:59 AM
      • All Sensations Are True - The Nature of Truth
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    1. Why Did Epicurus Not Focus His Teaching In Public?

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      • May 16, 2018 at 9:12 AM
      • To Live Unknown or To Engage With Society
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    1. Karl Popper and the question: Is it worse to suffer pain than it is good to experience pleasure?

      • Cassius
      • May 16, 2018 at 8:42 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. On How Much To Exert Oneself In Science (Or Anything Else)

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      • Controversies in Epicurean Philosophy
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    1. A Request To New Participants 8

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      • Welcome to Our New Members!
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    1. Video Blogging 3

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    1. Pleasure As the Goal - A Blog Post by Eoghan Gardiner

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      • May 11, 2018 at 5:44 PM
      • Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End In Itself - All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation
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    1. Pleasure and Pain as the Only Two Categories of Feeling, and the Issue of their "Blending"

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      • The Feelings / Passions / Internal Sensations: Pleasure and Pain
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    1. Welcome Amnoz! 5

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      • Welcome to Our New Members!
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      • Welcome to Our New Members!
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    1. All Pleasure Is Desirable, Because It Is Pleasing To Us, But Is All Pleasure *Equally* Desirable? 25

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      • The Feelings / Passions / Internal Sensations: Pleasure and Pain
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    1. Welcome Daniel Van Orman! 1

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    1. Hercules the Epicurean (?) 6

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      • Search and Identification of Past Epicureans, Real or Fictional
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    1. An Exchange On "Trying Not To Try" and "Hacking" the meaning of "Pleasure"

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      • Controversies in Epicurean Philosophy
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    1. Another Summary, This Time Prompted by Eoghan

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      • April 28, 2018 at 10:07 AM
      • Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End In Itself - All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation
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    1. Nietzsche's Positive References to Pleasure 1

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      • April 27, 2018 at 6:58 PM
      • Frederic Nietzsche
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    1. A Brief Good Word About "Traditional Stoicism"

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      • April 27, 2018 at 10:48 AM
      • Epicurus vs. the Stoics (Zeno, Chrysippus, Cleanthes, Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius)
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    1. Listing And Evaluating Stoic "Techniques" 2

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      • April 26, 2018 at 1:19 PM
      • Epicurus vs. the Stoics (Zeno, Chrysippus, Cleanthes, Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius)
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    1. Article Link: "Beyond Selfishness - Epicurean Ethics in Nietzsche and Guyau"

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      • April 26, 2018 at 9:08 AM
      • Frederic Nietzsche
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    1. Nietzsche's Condemnation of Christianity (And Its Relationship to Epicurus)

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      • April 25, 2018 at 8:43 AM
      • Frederic Nietzsche
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    1. General Thoughts on "Truth" (At least in terms of Justice) 2

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      • April 23, 2018 at 2:58 PM
      • Canonics - General Discussion
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    1. A Video Introduction to An Outline - Overview of Epicurean Philosophy

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      • April 22, 2018 at 1:19 PM
      • Personal Outlines of Epicurean Philosophy
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    1. True And False Opinions About Epicurus - From Chapter 1 of "Epicurus And His Philosophy" 2

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      • Epicurus and His Philosophy - Chapter Specific Threads
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    1. Discussion Plan For Chapter 01 "A Synoptic View of Epicureanism" (Norman DeWitt's "Epicurus And His Philosophy")

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      • April 21, 2018 at 10:03 AM
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    1. Discussion Plan For Chapter 15 "Extension, Submergence, And Revival" (Norman DeWitt's "Epicurus And His Philosophy")

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    1. Discussion Plan For Chapter 14 "The New Virtues" (Norman DeWitt's "Epicurus And His Philosophy")

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    1. Discussion Plan For Chapter 13 "The True Piety" (Norman DeWitt's "Epicurus And His Philosophy") 3

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    1. Discussion Plan For Chapter 12 "The New Hedonism" (Norman DeWitt's "Epicurus And His Philosophy") 2

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    1. Discussion Plan For Chapter 11 "Soul, Sensation & Mind" (Norman DeWitt's "Epicurus And His Philosophy")

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    1. Discussion Plan For Chapter 10 "The New Freedom" (Norman DeWitt's "Epicurus And His Philosophy")

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