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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. Stoic Challenges To Epicurean Philosophy - 2 - Why Would An Epicurean Die For A Friend?

      • Cassius
      • March 11, 2017 at 4:08 PM
      • Epicurus vs. the Stoics (Zeno, Chrysippus, Cleanthes, Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius)
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    1. Stoic Challenges To Epicurean Philosophy - 6 - What About Pleasures We Consider Bad Or Evil?

      • Cassius
      • March 11, 2017 at 4:07 PM
      • Epicurus vs. the Stoics (Zeno, Chrysippus, Cleanthes, Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius)
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    1. Introduction To Eight Part Series - Stoic Challenges To Epicurean Philosophy

      • Cassius
      • March 11, 2017 at 4:04 PM
      • Epicurus vs. the Stoics (Zeno, Chrysippus, Cleanthes, Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius)
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    1. Could Epicurean Involvement In Politics Have Prevented The Fall of Greco-Roman Civilization?

      • Cassius
      • March 11, 2017 at 4:02 PM
      • Epicurean Life Strategies for Modern Times
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    1. Are There Epicurean Role Models?

      • Cassius
      • March 11, 2017 at 4:00 PM
      • Epicurean Life Strategies for Modern Times
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    1. Stoic Challenges To Epicurean Philosophy - 1 - Do Not People Agree That Virtue More Admirable Than Pleasure?

      • Cassius
      • March 11, 2017 at 3:57 PM
      • Epicurus vs. the Stoics (Zeno, Chrysippus, Cleanthes, Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius)
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    1. Stoic Challenges To Epicurean Philosophy - 8 - Objection to the Epicurean Doctrine That Virtue Is only of Value as An Instrumentality to achieve Pleasure

      • Cassius
      • March 11, 2017 at 3:55 PM
      • Epicurus vs. the Stoics (Zeno, Chrysippus, Cleanthes, Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius)
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    1. Definitions Of Key Greek Terms

      • Cassius
      • March 11, 2017 at 3:50 PM
      • Ethics - General Discussion
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    1. Would Epicurus Say That Epictetus (A "Virtuous Man") lived a pleasant life?

      • Cassius
      • March 11, 2017 at 3:46 PM
      • Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End In Itself - All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation
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    1. Wenham - On Cicero's Interpretation of Katastematic Pleaure In Epicurus

      • Cassius
      • March 11, 2017 at 3:41 PM
      • Only Two Feelings - Pleasure and Pain - The Term Pleasure Includes Tranquility, Meaningfulness, Katastematic, Kinetic, Etc.
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    1. Comparing the Stoics With The Epicureans

      • Cassius
      • March 11, 2017 at 3:39 PM
      • Epicurus vs. the Stoics (Zeno, Chrysippus, Cleanthes, Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius)
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    1. Comparing Translations of the Tetrapharmakon

      • Cassius
      • March 11, 2017 at 3:36 PM
      • The Tetrapharmakon
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    1. What is the relationship between Arete (moral virtue) in Hellenistic Philosophy vs. Religions

      • Cassius
      • March 11, 2017 at 3:32 PM
      • Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End In Itself - All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation
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    1. Is it true that "ataraxia is not physical pleasure, or even mental pleasure, but a state of inner calm?"

      • Cassius
      • March 11, 2017 at 3:25 PM
      • Ethics - General Discussion
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    1. PD04 - Continuous Pleasure / PD4 2

      • Cassius
      • March 6, 2017 at 11:25 AM
      • Epicurus - Principal Doctrines
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    1. You Have Been Deceived!

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      • February 18, 2017 at 3:46 PM
      • Ethics - General Discussion
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    1. Top Problematic Attitude and “Life Premise” Issues Made Worse By Stoicism and Cured by Epicurean Philosophy

      • Cassius
      • February 18, 2017 at 3:40 PM
      • Epicurus vs. the Stoics (Zeno, Chrysippus, Cleanthes, Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius)
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    1. The Full Cup / Fullness of Pleasure Model

      • Cassius
      • February 17, 2017 at 8:02 PM
      • Ethics - General Discussion
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    1. Old Prototype For FAQ - Superceded

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      • February 17, 2017 at 8:40 AM
      • News And Forum Updates
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    1. Another Exchange on Ataraxia 1

      • Cassius
      • February 2, 2017 at 7:27 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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      • October 28, 2023 at 1:29 PM
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    1. The Goal of Life - From Torquatus in "On Ends"

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      • January 12, 2017 at 12:17 PM
      • Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End In Itself - All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation
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    1. The General Question - Dealing with Vulcans and Ayn Rand - "Emotions are not tools of Cognition"

      • Cassius
      • January 2, 2017 at 10:57 AM
      • The Feelings / Passions / Internal Sensations: Pleasure and Pain
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    1. Passions / Emotions / Feelings - The Second Leg of the Canon of Truth

      • Cassius
      • January 2, 2017 at 10:55 AM
      • The Feelings / Passions / Internal Sensations: Pleasure and Pain
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    1. PD32 - "Rights" - Animal Rights and Human Rights

      • Cassius
      • October 17, 2016 at 9:22 AM
      • Epicurus - Principal Doctrines
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    1. A Recap of Principles of Epicurean Physics 19

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      • October 11, 2016 at 1:36 PM
      • Physics - General Discussion
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    1. Science / Physics Update 10/02/16 1

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      • October 2, 2016 at 12:07 PM
      • Physics - General Discussion
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    1. Socrates / Plato - The Pursuit of Pleasure as "cookery" or "flattery"

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      • September 24, 2016 at 3:28 PM
      • Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End In Itself - All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation
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    1. VS26 - Long and Short Argument Reference in Cicero's On Ends

      • Cassius
      • September 24, 2016 at 3:25 PM
      • Epicurus - The "Vatican List" of Sayings
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    1. Cicero's Criticism of Stoicism's Doctrine of "Preferreds"

      • Cassius
      • September 24, 2016 at 3:24 PM
      • Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End In Itself - All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation
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    1. Cicero's Criticism of Stoicism - Book 4 of On Ends

      • Cassius
      • September 24, 2016 at 3:23 PM
      • Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End In Itself - All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation
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