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    2. Why Minimizing All Desire Is Incorrect (and what to do instead) 6

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      • December 4, 2024 at 7:52 PM
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    4. Cassius

      December 4, 2024 at 7:52 PM

    2. A Fable on Unattainable Expectations 6

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      • October 16, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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    4. Don

      November 22, 2024 at 11:32 AM

    2. Epicurean Golden Rule? 14

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      • September 30, 2024 at 9:17 AM
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    4. Don

      September 30, 2024 at 9:17 AM

    2. Health of the Body and Happiness of the Soul -vs- "The Goal is Pleasure" 4

      • Kalosyni
      • September 9, 2024 at 6:56 AM
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      September 9, 2024 at 6:56 AM

    2. The Normal Curve of Pleasure 5

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      • July 23, 2024 at 5:59 PM
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    2. Explaining In Summary Form How A Man In Extreme Pain Can Be Said To Be "Happy" 22

      • Cassius
      • April 20, 2024 at 5:38 AM
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      July 1, 2024 at 1:24 PM

    2. Scientific Support for Psychological Hedonism 19

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      • April 23, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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    2. If We Agree For The Sake of Argument That "The Perfect Should Not Be The Enemy of The Good," then let's ask "What *Should* We Consider To Be The Proper Relationship Between The Perfect And The Good?" 8

      • Cassius
      • February 26, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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      February 29, 2024 at 12:22 AM

    2. Given The Stress That Many Greek Philosophers' Placed On "Virtue" or a perfect view of "The Good" As The Ultimate Goal, To What Extent Would An Epicurus Have Considered That Approach An "Unnatural and Unnecessary Desire?" 4

      • Cassius
      • February 26, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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    2. Is All "Ataraxia" Equal? 30

      • Cassius
      • November 18, 2023 at 7:47 PM
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      February 19, 2024 at 12:29 PM

    2. Epicurus And Pleasure As The Awareness Of Smooth Motion 13

      • Cassius
      • February 6, 2024 at 12:24 PM
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    4. Cassius

      February 6, 2024 at 12:24 PM

    2. My 2024 Resolution: Get A More Accurate Picture of Epicurean Pleasure To The World Rather Than "Tranquility" or "Live Unkown"(Comment on Irish Times Article) 15

      • Cassius
      • January 1, 2024 at 7:03 AM
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      • January 27, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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    4. Eikadistes

      January 27, 2024 at 5:25 PM

    2. Maximum pleasure as absence of all pain: a philosophical question concerning neuroscientific and Epicurean outlook toward the feeling of pleasure 10

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      • January 26, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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    2. Fundamental Issues In Hedonism 15

      • BrainToBeing
      • December 14, 2023 at 9:52 AM
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      December 14, 2023 at 9:52 AM

    2. Mental pleasure/pain more intense and longer lasting than physical pleasure/pain 33

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      • December 13, 2023 at 10:19 PM
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      December 13, 2023 at 10:19 PM

    2. "Absence Of Pain Is Pleasure" - How Would You Articulate That To Someone? 30

      • Eoghan Gardiner
      • December 2, 2023 at 12:47 PM
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      December 2, 2023 at 12:47 PM

    2. Tips On Offsetting Pleasures Against Pains 24

      • Cassius
      • November 28, 2023 at 8:27 AM
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      November 29, 2023 at 9:56 AM

    2. Perspectives On "Proving" That Pleasure is "The Good" 205

      • Todd
      • December 19, 2022 at 4:34 PM
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      November 28, 2023 at 1:28 PM

    2. List of Epicurean philosophical remedies

      • Kalosyni
      • November 8, 2023 at 10:52 AM
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    2. Would You Rather Live For A Week As (1) Epicurus During the Last Week of His Life or (2) An Anonymous Shepherd Laying In The Grass In The Summertime With No Pain At All? 104

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      • September 6, 2023 at 2:36 PM
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      October 22, 2023 at 3:28 PM

    2. Wikipedia on "Pleasure"

      • Kalosyni
      • October 18, 2023 at 6:24 PM
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    2. Explaining Perspectives - Chart Of Whole Organism vs Discrete Feelings

      • Cassius
      • October 17, 2023 at 8:52 AM
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    2. If Death Is Nothing To Us, Then Life Is Everything to Us 29

      • Cassius
      • October 7, 2023 at 12:06 AM
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      October 7, 2023 at 8:22 PM

    2. Practical Pleasure-Pain Perspectives: How Different is 99% Pleasure From 100% Pleasure? 13

      • Cassius
      • October 5, 2023 at 12:06 PM
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    2. A Pleasant Life instead of Pleasure 7

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      • August 4, 2023 at 8:14 AM
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    2. Desiderata 2

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    2. How would you respond to an existentialist who says "You Epicureans have chosen pleasure as your meaning but it's not universal" do Epicureans hold that pleasure is the universal Good? 13

      • Eoghan Gardiner
      • June 15, 2023 at 12:36 AM
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      June 15, 2023 at 12:36 AM

    2. Ruminations on leading with “Pleasure and Pain as the Guide” v “The Goal is Pleasure” 4

      • Godfrey
      • June 9, 2023 at 7:07 AM
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    2. Pleasure vs pain - example and thoughts! 10

      • ThinkingCat
      • May 21, 2023 at 9:08 PM
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    4. Don

      May 21, 2023 at 9:08 PM

    2. How has the word epicurean come to mean excess? 22

      • ThinkingCat
      • May 19, 2023 at 6:50 PM
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    2. November 2024 General Thoughts On What Epicurean Philosophy Means To Me. 5

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    2. Prolepsis / Anticipations As Epicurus' Answer to the MENO Problem 34

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    2. Stoics Aren't Ascetics... It's Those Epicureans! 9

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