How should one deal with one’s desires, needs, bodily limitations and mortality during the living of one’s life? To what extent can our minds know and control or improve our bodies?

4-5 pages, double spaced, font 12, times new roman, 1250 words

Compare the views of 4 philosophers, at least 3 from the ancients and 1 from the moderns (Plato and Socrates should count here as only one philosopher. Descartes are the modern.)

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plato:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1656/1656-h/1656-h.htm (Links to an external site.)

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1658/1658-h/1658-h.htm (Links to an external site.)

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1676/1676-h/1676-h.htm (Links to an external site.)

St. Paul and st. augustine

http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/120114.htm (Links to an external site.)

descartes

http://selfpace.uconn.edu/class/percep/DescartesMeditations.pdf (Links to an external site.)