Using at least four of the philosophers studied in this course (Plato, Hesiod, Homer, The Sophists, Socrates, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, Kant, Marx, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Locke, Berkeley, Hume) write a 3-5 page essay either supporting or rejecting the following statement:
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
~Aldous Huxley, Themes and Variations, 1950
