Part III: Integrity in Public
Unit 10: Reception, Benediction, and the Course Exam
Monday October 26 and Wednesday October 28
How should a course close its manuscript argument without pretending the argument is settled?
Orientation
A benediction blesses and dismisses at once. This week the manuscript closes, and the course exam measures interpretation of the whole pre-exam arc.
What this Unit teaches
- reception archive as evidence requiring source discipline
- benediction as blessing plus dismissal
- Yellow Springs and chosen community
- legacy versus reputation
- joy as hermeneutic
- answerable speech
- whole-course synthesis
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