[SOLVED] How should one deal with ones desires, needs, bodily limitations and mortality during the living of ones life? To what extent can our minds know and control or improve our bodies?
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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.)