Table of Contents
Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction
1. Socrates and Teaching
1.a. Why Socrates Denies Being a Teacher 1.b. Conventional Athenian Assumptions about Teachers and Teaching 1.c. Socrates as Student: The Contrast between a Market and a Gift Economy 1.d. The Meaning of "Teaching" in the Gorgias: "Additive" versus "Integrative" Models 1.e. Conclusion: The Socratic Paideusis
2. The Lysis: Limits and Liberation in Socrates' Encounter with Lysis
2.a. The Threshold Imagery in the Dramatic Setting and Prologue (203a1–206e2) 2.b. Socrates' First Conversation with Lysis (206e3–211b5)
2.b.1. Step One—The Unsettling: Disturbing What Is Familiar 2.b.2. Step Two—The Arousal: Fanning the Flames of Desire 2.b.3. Step Three—The Chastening: Reimposing Limits
2.c. Conclusion: The Positive Results of the Lysis
3. The Alcibiades I: Socratic Dialogue as Self-Care
3.a. Disarming Alcibiades: The Preliminary Contest 3.b. Introduction to the Problem of Taking Trouble over Oneself 3.c. The Meaning of Taking Trouble over Oneself 3.d. Practices for "Taking Trouble": Gumnastike and Mathesis
3.d.1. Gumnastike and Dialogue 3.d.2. Learning What Needs to Be Learned
3.e. Conclusion: The Ominous End of the Alcibiades I
4. The Symposium: Eros, Truth Telling, and the Preservation of Freedom
4.a. Alcibiades' Motive in the Algon with Socrates 4.b. Alcibiades' Attempt to Dominate Socrates
4.b.1. Eros and Thumos 4.b.2. The Vindication of Socrates' Approach to Others
4.c. Irony and Inebriation: Two Ways of Telling the Truth
4.c.1. Six Points of Emphasis in Alcibiades' Speech 4.c.2. Inebriation and Parrhêsia in Truth Telling
4.d. Conclusion: Adjudicating the Agon over Truth Telling
5. Dramatic Failure and the Gift in Socratic Paideusis
Notes Selected Bibliography Index
