een good and evil. Like Plato, Augustine believed that there are desires and appetites that weigh man down everyday but through faith in God man can overcome these desires and develop the ability to reason. For Christians, the purpose of life is to achieve happiness by knowing God through reason. Which of these views is correct? If the Judeo-Christian view is right, how does one survive if he does not believe in or devote his life to God? If man believes in the Rational view of reason, isn’t it inevitable that aggression will always be the result from the constant suppression of ones desires? One might be inclined to agree with the Existentialist view on human nature; that man creates his own nature through the choices he makes every day of his life....
