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Episode 218 of the Lucretius Today Podcast is now available. In this episode we address: Can an Epicurean Not Distinguish Between Greater and Lesser Pleasures and Pains?
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Major Herculaneum Scroll News: "In the closing section of the text our author takes a parting shot at his adversaries, who 'have nothing to say about pleasure, either in general or in particular, when it is a question of definition.'” 12
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Maximum pleasure as absence of all pain: a philosophical question concerning neuroscientific and Epicurean outlook toward the feeling of pleasure 10
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French (Burlamaqui and Rousseau) and German (D'Holbach) Followers of Epicurus (?) 1
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A Draft of A Pie Chart Presentation of Basic Concepts In Epicurean Pleasure 7
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Is All "Ataraxia" Equal? 30
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"Absence Of Pain Is Pleasure" - How Would You Articulate That To Someone? 30
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Practical Pleasure-Pain Perspectives: How Different is 99% Pleasure From 100% Pleasure? 13
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Would You Rather Live For A Week As (1) Epicurus During the Last Week of His Life or (2) An Anonymous Shepherd Laying In The Grass In The Summertime With No Pain At All? 104
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Compassion in Epicurean Philosophy 42
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"Setting Before the Eyes" 49
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An Epicurean Understanding of Pleasure 96
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Issues In The Meaning And Definition of Logic 66
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So You Want To Learn Ancient Greek Or Latin? 47
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Live to 120? I’d rather go for quality not quantity of life… 3
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Major Herculaneum Scroll News: "In the closing section of the text our author takes a parting shot at his adversaries, who 'have nothing to say about pleasure, either in general or in particular, when it is a question of definition.'” 12
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Sports are fun but is exercise really something Epicurus would have lauded? 2
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