PHI2010 Florida Dealing with Mortality and How to Improve Selves Essay

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? 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 is the first of the moderns.)

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