Assignment Senior Seminar Spring 2019

Length: 2-3 pages (not including cover or bibliographical pages, or supporting material) Format: 12 point font, Times New Roman font, 1 inch margins, double spaced, page numbers. Please proofread your paper. I encourage you to submit to Canvas a second or third draft of your paper.

Due: Tuesday, 26 March 2019, via Canvas, before seminar.

Option 1

Construct a clear claim that interprets a specific line or idea from Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. Please limit yourself to the selection available on Canvas.

Position your claim at the end of your introductory paragraph.

Option 2

Write a paper that argues for a claim of the following form:

[Form of Democracy] is best suited to the US population today BECAUSE … 

Your paper should engage with (or refute) Socrates’ argument in the allegory of the cave, wherein he suggests that we might be best ruled by a philosopher-king (or perhaps by philosopher-kings).

The form of democracy that you use in your paper should be (briefly) described in your introductory paragraph. The form of democracy may be the current US form of democracy or it may be one that exists elsewhere or it may be one that you construct.

Position your claim at the end of your introductory paragraph.

Focus your paper on a clear claim. Position your claim at the end of your introductory paragraph, and defend your claim through your paper’s argument.