The Relationship of Pleasure To "Good" And Pain To "Evil" - All Good and Evil Consists in Sensation

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    2. The Full Cup / Fullness of Pleasure Model 2

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    2. Torquatus' Statement of the Epicurean View Of The Ultimate Good In "On Ends" 26

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    2. "All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation"

      • Cassius
      • September 2, 2023 at 12:29 PM
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    2. The Difference Between Happiness and Pleasure 18

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    2. Collecting Ancient Instances of the Argument: "Pleasure Cannot Be The Highest Good Because It Has No Limit" 19

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    2. Thomas Jefferson's "Head And Heart" Letter

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    2. Journal of happiness studies article on Epicurus 8

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      • November 26, 2020 at 7:04 PM
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    2. Victor Frankl 3

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    2. Pleasure slogans 5

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      • November 13, 2020 at 6:48 PM
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    2. Consequentialism & Moral Relativism within the context of Pleasure-filled Philosophy 27

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    2. Comment at the Epicurean Philosophy Facebook Group On Pleasure As The Highest Good 23

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      • September 16, 2020 at 7:48 AM
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    2. Pleasure over truth 15

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    2. Post At Modern Epicurean Blog - "Epicurean Ethics Considered And Defended" 7

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      • September 7, 2020 at 10:33 AM
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    2. Continuous Pleasure / Sustained Pleasure 6

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    2. A Video on Epicurus and Pleasure Being Better Than God Or Virtue. 1

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    2. Pleasure: ruminations from sequestration 7

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    2. Obeying the law is pleasurable 1

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    2. How Much Pleasure Is Needed For A Happy Life? 1

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    2. Pleasure vs Happiness (?) Discussion of Hiram's "In Defense of Eudaimonia" 36

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    2. Is Pleasure the Only Good? 7

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    2. Nature and Pleasure and Pain 9

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    2. Another Aspect of PD3's "The Limit of Quantity In Pleasures..." - Pleasure Is A Matter For Individual / Flexible Measurement

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    2. Getting Oriented - Where To Start For NewComers

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    2. A List of Objections To Epicurus From A Modern Christian - Hyde's "From Epicurus To Christ"

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    2. Nature Didn't Give Us A Faculty of "Something Else"

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    2. An Exchange On The Subject of Ataraxia As "The Ultimate Pleasure"

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    2. Commentary on "The Ultimate Tranquilizer"

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    2. Considering the Importance of Mental Pleasures 3

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

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    2. Another Summary, This Time Prompted by Eoghan

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