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    2. Article on the "Letter to Marcella" by Porphyry 21

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    2. Is A Fish Dinner A Better Prescription For Pain Than a Treatise of Socrates? 3

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    2. "A Lie And An Impossibility" - Lucian - "Alexander the Oracle Monger" 1

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    2. Guyau - Interesting Summary Essay - The Morality of Epicurus And Its Relationship To Contemporary Doctrines 5

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    2. Your Regular Reminder That Epicurean Philosophy Is About A Lot More Than Ice Cream And Cookies

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    2. Starting Point Questions

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    2. Why Does Stoicism Seem to Be More Popular Than Epicureanism, Especially In England? 13

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    2. Life is Short - Do Stuff that ??? "matters" ??? 2

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    2. On Ice Cream And Epicurean Philosophy 21

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    2. A Practical Question About An Aspect of Politics That Matters

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    2. Nate's "Drake Meme" Graphics 5

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    2. New Article: "Free Will In Epicurean Philosophy" - by Dimitris Liarmakopoulos

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    2. Happy Twentieth of May (2019)! 1

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    2. "School Turns to The Teachings of Aristotle...." [to indoctrinate young minds in "virtue"] 3

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    2. New Forum For Discussion of Movies / Books / Arts Which Pose Questions on Proper Pursuit of Pleasure 1

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    2. Applying PD 31-38 to "Virtue" (Of Which "Justice" Is Simply a Subset) 2

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    2. Facebook Becomes Ever-More Oppressive 3

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    2. Research Question: DeLattre's "Les Epicuriens" And the State of Publication of Herculaneum Texts

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    2. Can You Name A Character in Movies Or Literature Who Well Depicts Epicurean Ethics? 1

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    2. Epicurean Or Not? "Fiat Justitia ruat caelo" (Let Justice be done though the sky falls) 6

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    2. The Advice of Marcus The Golden 12

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    2. On Nature And Perfect Forms

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    2. On Living Unknown While Locating Your School In A High Traffic Area

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    2. Evaluating "In Defense of Being Average" 11

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    2. Question On Forum Operation 12

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    2. Martin Gives Us A Great Example of Epicurean "Avoidance of Pain" 4

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    2. "Epicurean Philosphy or Epicureanism" - An Article By Dimitris Atlas

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    2. A Discussion On Pleasure and the Zero State 5

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    2. Happy Twentieth of June (2019)! 3

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