This semester, students in Wabash's Senior Seminar will be reading Plato's
Republic and blogging regularly about the questions and provocations that arise from the dialogue. This summer
I blogged my trip to Greece and I found that my regular engagement with the blog prompted my thinking and forced me to articulate thoughts that might otherwise have been left inchoate. Thus, this blog will serve as a place to consider ideas at length and in depth outside of class discussion in a way that will both further issues raised in class and allow for us to pick up new concerns not mentioned in class in subsequent class meetings. This informal low stakes setting of a blog will in conjunction with class lecture and discussion allow students to work out difficulties as preparatory for writing longer papers. Students are asked to blog once every three weeks and to comment on their classmates' posts when not blogging themselves. Successful posts will engage closely with the text (with reference to specific passages), drive the conversation in an important direction, and connect to the larger themes of the dialogue.
