This course explores the conflict between the City of Man and the City of God as it developed in the Middle Ages through directed readings in Plato's Symposium, Bernard's On Loving God, selections from Aquinas, Machiavelli's The Mandrake Root and The Prince, Hobbes' Leviathan, and Shakespeare's Henry V.
While this course addresses many of the perennial themes of the great conversation, the central theme is “love.” Classical and Christian visions of love are considered including the attempts of several authors to offer a synthesis of the two traditions.
- Teacher: Josh Bruce