The contemporary debate is listed first in the activity guide. The following contemporary issues could be used by students as they think about and prepare their positions for the debates between the philosophers. Governments must do what they consider to be right regardless of whether polls suggest that people disagree with the government's policies. Society should be led by an elite which can demand absolute conformity in areas like medicine, education, honesty morality,etc. or society will degenerate into chaos. Classrooms, hockey games, businesses etc.
Men can learn to be as good nurturers of children as women.
The father's role could be the care giver at home rather than the breadwinner. Since society plays a decisive role in shaping human intelligence and personality, any minor differences between men and women should not affect the opportunities made available to either sex by society. A dictatorship is the best form of government for human beings Man should be expected to stay home and take care of the children as much as women. The war taught Hobbes many things about the nature of human beings and the need for authority and order within society. Hobbes said that it was obvious people like to fight with each other.