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    • Core Ideas – Introductory Material
    • Canonics – How Can I Be Confident In What I Think I Know To Be True?
      • Epicurus and His Philosophy – Chapters VII – The Canon, Reason, And Nature
      • Epicurus and His Philosophy – Chapter VIII – Sensations, Anticipations, and Feelings
      • Jackson Barwis: Dialogues Concerning Innate Principles
      • On Three Legs We Stand – Epicurus and the Dialogues of Jackson Barwis
      • Key Issues In Correct Thinking
    • Physics – What Is The Nature of the Universe?
      • Twelve Elementals of Nature
    • Ethics – How Should I Live?
      • The Goal of Life – The Full Cup / Fullness of Pleasure Model
      • Virtue As Instrumental Rather Than An End In Itself
    • Against Supernaturalist Religion
    • Against Stoicism
      • The Stoics On Pleasure
    • Against Skepticism
    • Against Platonic and Aristotelian Idealism
      • Special Topics
        • Special Topics – Introduction
        • EpicureanFreeWill.md
        • Epicurean “Dogmatism”
        • The Twentieth.md
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    • The Doctrines and Sayings of Epicurus
      • Doctrines 1-10
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      • Doctrines 31-40
    • Vatican Library Sayings
    • Letter to Herodotus
      • Letter to Herodotus – Elemental Edition
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    • Letter to Pythocles
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    • Diogenes Laertius: The Life of Epicurus
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      • Gassendi’s Epicurus – Part 1 – Life of Epicurus
      • Gassendi’s Epicurus – Part 2A – Of Philosophy in General
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      • Gassendi’s Epicurus – Part 2C – The Second Part of Philosophy, Physick, or, of Nature
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      • Catius’ Cat And The Forty Mice
      • Frances Wright’s “A Few Days In Athens”
      • Lion of Epicurus – Lucian and His Epicurean Passages
      • The Tripod of Truth
      • The Doctrines of Epicurus – Annotated
      • An Introduction To The Nature of Things
      • Ante Oculos – Epicurus and The Evidence-Based Life
      • A Life Worthy of the Gods – The Life And Work of Epicurus
      • The Same Span of Time – The Major Works of Thomas Cooper, M.D.
      • Thomas Cooper’s “Consolidation”

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