Unit 6

LOVE AND POLITICS


Guide for Teachers & Students

Readings:
Leviathan, Hobbes
Symposium,
Plato
Histories,
Herodotus
Antony and Cleopatra
, Shakespeare
Discussion Questions:
Leviathan Questions
Symposium Questions
Histories Questions
Antony and Cleopatra Questions

For wisdom is one of the most beautiful things, and Love is of the beautiful; and therefore Love is also a philosopher or lover of wisdom; and being a philosopher, he falls between being wise and being ignorant. And of this too his birth is the cause, for his father is wise and resourceful, and his mother poor and foolish.

Plato's Symposium

For man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.

Benedick of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

 

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