The Relationship of Pleasure To "Good" And Pain To "Evil" - All Good and Evil Consists in Sensation
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Torquatus' Statement of the Epicurean View Of The Ultimate Good In "On Ends" 26
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The Full Cup / Fullness of Pleasure Model 2
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Victor Frankl 3
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Thomas Jefferson's "Head And Heart" Letter
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Theophrastus - Perception is generally pleasurable....
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The Goal of Life - From Torquatus in "On Ends"
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The Difference Between Happiness and Pleasure 18
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January 13, 2018 at 5:45 PM
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Socrates / Plato - The Pursuit of Pleasure as "cookery" or "flattery"
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Simonides - Without pleasure, not even the life of the gods is enviable.
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Psychopaths and Pleasure 3
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May 18, 2015 at 10:56 AM
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Post At Modern Epicurean Blog - "Epicurean Ethics Considered And Defended" 7
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Pleasure: ruminations from sequestration 7
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Pleasure, "Absence of Pain," and Two States of Feeling
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July 12, 2016 at 4:25 PM
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Pleasure vs Happiness (?) Discussion of Hiram's "In Defense of Eudaimonia" 36
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Pleasure slogans 5
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November 13, 2020 at 6:48 PM
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Pleasure over truth 15
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September 14, 2020 at 11:41 PM
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Pleasure As the Goal - A Blog Post by Eoghan Gardiner
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May 11, 2018 at 5:44 PM
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Obeying the law is pleasurable 1
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January 11, 2020 at 9:29 PM
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Nature Didn't Give Us A Faculty of "Something Else"
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Nature and Pleasure and Pain 9
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August 18, 2019 at 2:04 PM
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More on "Simple Pleasures" 3
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Loving Life? Or Loving Anesthesia?
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Living The Hobo Life? 11
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January 8, 2018 at 11:02 PM
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Journal of happiness studies article on Epicurus 8
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Is Pleasure the Only Good? 7
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In Life, There is No Antidote to Pain But Pleasure
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How Much Pleasure Is Needed For A Happy Life? 1
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How epicureanism has been helping me deal with overindulgence 6
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Getting Oriented - Where To Start For NewComers
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For Those Who Dispute That Pleasurable Living Is the Goal of Life, What Would You Say Is The Goal Instead?
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