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On Pleasure vs. Tranquility - A Dialogue With Southampton

JC: Hi Cassius. I'm sorry to badger you about this again, but I'm still trying to get my head around the pleasure principle. From my reading, all scholars agree that Epicurus divides pleasure into…
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September 26, 2019 at 4:06 PM
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Christos Yapijakis: "Mistakes of Cognitive Perception and Epicurean Prudence"

Christos Yapijakis: "Mistakes of Cognitive Perception and Epicurean Prudence" From Christos Yapijakis: I have translated for you and our international friends my Greek presentation slides at the…
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Christos Yapijakis: "Epicurean Philosophy, Modern Science, and Life" - A Presentation With Question Answer Session.

Epicurean Philosophy, Modern Science, and Life Source for the following article: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology…
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A Neighbor And His Dog - by Elli Pensa

A Neighbor And His Dog I have a story to tell you about a neighbor and his dog, but first I would like to share with you some thoughts on Epicurean Doctrine 40: “As many as possess the power to…
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A Five Star Presentation of Epicurean Philosophy

A Five Star Presentation of Epicurean Philosophy I think it's important that we begin to present Epicurean philosophy through podcasts and other audio-video means, so as a test I put together this…
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Major Controversies In Understanding Epicurean Philosophy

Understanding Epicurus takes considerable effort, but not because the doctrines are difficult - they're not! The problem is that Epicurean philosophy has been heavily criticized for more than two…
Cassius
January 27, 2018 at 1:58 PM
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Creating "Blog Articles" Here At EpicuranFriends.com

Creating "Articles" Here At EpicuranFriends.com One of the abilities of the EpicureanFriends.com forum software is that it handles the publishing of longer "Articles" that can then be tagged and…
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You Have Been Deceived!

You Have Been Deceived! You have been deceived. If you are hearing these words in the early years of the twenty-first century, then you have already wasted much of your life dealing with nonsense.…
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Epicurean Meetings and Conventions

Epicurean Meetings and Conventions A new Wiki Page devoted to assisting those who want to set up local Epicurean meetup groups or meetings has now been set up. It will be easier to update that page…
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A Link From Ancient to Modern Greece – Liantinis' “Gemma”

A Link From Ancient to Modern Greece – Liantinis' “Gemma” [URL:http://newepicurean.com/author/admin/] Cassius Amicus [URL:http://newepicurean.com/author/admin/] 07-8-2017…
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