Blog 9: Augustine's Confessions

Could Confessions have been written today? Does our culture support such serious, intensive, analysis of the self and the meaning of life? Or have psychotherapy and such phenomena taken the place of self-motivated searching like that engaged in by Augustine? What role does reading play in Augustine's search?

Blog 8

Plato offers the Theory of Forms/Ideas as a solution to a number of different philosophical problems. What is one of those problems? Explain how the theory is supposed to solve the problem.

Blog 6- The Aeneid

What kind of hero is Aeneas? How do his actions compare to those of Gilgamesh, Achilles, and Hector? In what ways is his situation similar to or different from that of the other heroes?