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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. Cicero's Criticism of Stoicism in "On Ends"

      • Cassius
      • September 24, 2016 at 3:22 PM
      • Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End In Itself - All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation
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    1. "Absence of Pain" Discussion in Cicero's Criticism of Epciurus in On Ends

      • Cassius
      • September 24, 2016 at 3:20 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. Comparison With Excerpt in Gorgias

      • Cassius
      • September 24, 2016 at 3:13 PM
      • Life Is Desirable, But Unlimited Time Contains No Greater Pleasure Than Limited Time
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    1. Philebus: The Problem With Trying To Separate Pleasure From Wisdom

      • Cassius
      • September 24, 2016 at 3:11 PM
      • The Feelings / Passions / Internal Sensations: Pleasure and Pain
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    1. PD07 - Post By EP - "Darius" by CP Cavafy

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      • September 24, 2016 at 3:09 PM
      • Epicurus - Principal Doctrines
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    1. Gorgias - The Leaky Cask Hypothetical

      • Cassius
      • September 24, 2016 at 3:07 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. Simonides - Without pleasure, not even the life of the gods is enviable.

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      • September 24, 2016 at 3:02 PM
      • Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End In Itself - All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation
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    1. Theophrastus - Perception is generally pleasurable....

      • Cassius
      • September 24, 2016 at 3:00 PM
      • Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End In Itself - All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation
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    1. Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of September - Epicurus v Plato - Part 1 - Gorgias

      • Cassius
      • September 19, 2016 at 9:03 PM
      • Twentieth, Holidays, & Birthday Greetings
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    1. "Absence of Pain" In Cicero's "On Ends"

      • Cassius
      • September 18, 2016 at 8:16 AM
      • Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End In Itself - All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation
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    1. The Seductiveness of Virtue

      • Cassius
      • August 10, 2016 at 6:00 PM
      • Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End In Itself - All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation
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    1. On The Subject of the Tetrapharmakon

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      • August 3, 2016 at 8:36 PM
      • Philodemus - On / Against _??_ (In Which The "Tetrapharmakon" Appears)
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    1. Pleasure, "Absence of Pain," and Two States of Feeling

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      • July 12, 2016 at 4:25 PM
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    1. Announcing the EpicureanFriends.com WIKI

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      • June 19, 2016 at 10:30 PM
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    1. Happy Twentieth of June - Born to Seek Pleasure and to Overcome Pain

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      • June 19, 2016 at 10:06 PM
      • Twentieth, Holidays, & Birthday Greetings
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    1. A Comparison Chart on "The Goal"

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      • May 29, 2016 at 5:37 PM
      • Comparing Epicurus With Other Philosophers - General Discussion
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    1. A Discussion of Epicurean Concepts of Divinity

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      • May 15, 2016 at 4:51 PM
      • True Divinity Is Incorruptible And Blessed
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    1. Is "happiness" "prior" to being "tranquil"?

      • Cassius
      • March 23, 2016 at 8:45 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. Emotionlessness? The Epicurean View Is the Deeper Experience of Emotion!

      • Cassius
      • March 16, 2016 at 8:22 AM
      • Only Two Feelings - Pleasure and Pain - The Term Pleasure Includes Tranquility, Meaningfulness, Katastematic, Kinetic, Etc.
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    1. Comments on Painlessness

      • Cassius
      • March 14, 2016 at 9:01 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. Welcome Leontius of Ockham 4

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      • March 13, 2016 at 1:25 PM
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    1. The Wider Implications Of the Epicurean Warnings About Passionate Love 1

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      • March 5, 2016 at 3:04 PM
      • Relationships - Family, Marriage, Children, and Romantic Love
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    1. A Discussion Of Eudaemonia - Extracted from the Facebook Group

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      • February 26, 2016 at 6:16 PM
      • Ethics - General Discussion
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    1. Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of February - Pleasure, Pain, and Erroneous Standards

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      • February 20, 2016 at 9:45 AM
      • Twentieth, Holidays, & Birthday Greetings
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    1. Expanding the Stoicism Comparison Chart to Include Other Philosophers

      • Cassius
      • February 18, 2016 at 4:52 PM
      • Epicurus vs. the Stoics (Zeno, Chrysippus, Cleanthes, Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius)
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    1. I - The Message of the Epicureans

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      • February 7, 2016 at 6:28 AM
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    1. II - Epicurus Overcame The Terror Of Religion And Showed Us How To Live According to Nature

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    1. Excellent Article on the Nature of Pleasure

      • Cassius
      • February 3, 2016 at 9:19 PM
      • Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End In Itself - All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation
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    1. Implications of the Role of Pleasure/Pain in the "Canon of Truth"

      • Cassius
      • February 2, 2016 at 4:11 PM
      • Canonics - General Discussion
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    1. 6th Annual Panhellenic Symposium Of Epicurean Philosophy Is This Weekend in Athens!

      • Cassius
      • February 1, 2016 at 7:02 AM
      • Friends of Epicurean Philosophy Garden of Athens
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