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Featured Threads - If You Are New Here, Check Out Our "Featured Threads" For Discussions Of Particular Interest!
- Kalosyni
December 4, 2024 at 5:51 PM
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New Users Please Read Here First
- Cassius
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A Veiled Reference to Epicurus in Robert Heinlein? 2
- Joshua
June 29, 2019 at 12:32 PM
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A Welcome Sign From Shahab
- Cassius
October 28, 2020 at 2:13 PM
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A Word About Words 4
- Pacatus
December 9, 2022 at 1:13 PM
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A Word To The Wise About Arguments 2
- Cassius
January 13, 2018 at 9:45 PM
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A. Le Grand's Divine Epicurus 1
- Don
June 19, 2021 at 6:23 AM
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Access to conversation denied 5
- Godfrey
September 8, 2019 at 5:54 PM
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Active Research Projects Page
- Cassius
January 15, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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Addressing Cicero's Argument That Epicurean Philosophy Cannot Be Spoken In The Senate
- Cassius
June 13, 2022 at 1:48 PM
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Against the Physicists / Physicians 23
- Hiram
February 1, 2020 at 3:25 PM
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Against the stoics 4
- azbcethananderson
October 3, 2019 at 3:41 PM
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Alciphron, Letters, Letters of the Courtesans: Leontion to Lamia (Fictional Epistle) 8
- Charles
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All AI Radio! 2
- kochiekoch
November 6, 2024 at 9:07 PM
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Alt-tech outreach 36
- Matthaios
February 7, 2021 at 9:22 PM
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Altruism 11
- Dubitator314
May 30, 2021 at 12:28 PM
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American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) 3
- Godfrey
February 27, 2021 at 4:56 PM
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Amusing Clip of the Day - "Please Stop Posting Epicurus Quotes" 2
- Cassius
August 16, 2019 at 11:41 PM
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An Analogy 2
- Joshua
March 9, 2020 at 7:12 PM
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An Approach to Reading Philosophy 3
- Elayne
December 31, 2019 at 9:20 AM
- Elayne
December 31, 2019 at 7:16 PM
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An Epicurean Instagram 6
- A_Gardner
February 14, 2020 at 2:30 PM
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An Epicurean Study of Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics 75
- Don
October 7, 2022 at 6:26 PM
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An Epicurean Understanding of Pleasure 96
- Kalosyni
October 4, 2021 at 1:39 PM
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An Example of Stoic Logical Reasoning - On Divination
- Cassius
October 26, 2024 at 8:17 PM
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An Example of the Translation Issues We Have To Deal With: Does The Wise Man Cry Out When On The Rack? (Answer: Yes!)
- Cassius
October 28, 2019 at 9:06 AM
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An Original Hymn to Venus 4
- Joshua
May 28, 2019 at 12:47 AM
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Anachronisms In Pictures
- Cassius
February 10, 2020 at 10:20 AM
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Analyzing The Boeing Astronauts From An Epicurean Perspective 3
- Kalosyni
June 4, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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Anandamide: the molecule of pleasure, 4
- Hiram
April 3, 2019 at 3:08 PM
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Ancient Epicurean worldview (classes of compounds of atoms) 1
- TauPhi
September 2, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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Ancient Greek Numbering System 1
- Cassius
January 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Animal Intelligence - Parrots and Videoconferencing
- Cassius
June 4, 2023 at 7:11 PM
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New Religious Landscape Study from Pew Research 29
- Don
February 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM - General Discussion
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Diogenes Laertius Book X - public domain translations 3
- TauPhi
April 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM - General Discussion
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"Voices From The Ancient World" Greek and Latin Reference Site
- Cassius
April 17, 2025 at 8:38 AM - General Discussion
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Life Found Elsewhere? 7
- kochiekoch
April 17, 2025 at 6:10 AM - General Discussion
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Must an Epicurean believe in gods? 14
- Rolf
April 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM - General Discussion
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