Socrates Mystagogos

Don Adams received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Reed College and from there went directly to Cornell University, where he studied with Terence Irwin, Gail Fine, and Norman Kretzmann. His Ph.D. dissertation was a comparative study of love and friendship in the moral theories of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas. He has taught logic and the history of European philosophy - especially ancient Greek philosophy - at about half a dozen colleges and universities across the United States. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at Central Connecticut State University.

Preface



Introduction

Chapter 1: Socratic Skepticism



Introduction



Section 1: Subversive and Unversive Transgression in Comedy



Section 2: Unversive Transgression in Greek Cult Festivals



Section 3: Aristophanic Conservatism, Socratic Liberalism



Section 4: The Causality of Humor



Section 5: Introducing Socrates Mystagogos



Conclusion

Chapter 2: Socratic Epistemology



Introduction



Section 1: "The Socratic Fallacy" Refuted



Section 2: "The Socratic Fallacy" Revived



Section 3: Socratic Dogmatism



Section 4: Socratic Refutation



Section 5: Socratic "Folk Epistemology"



Section 6: Refutation, Induction, and the Use of Examples



Section 7: "The Socratic Fallacy," Again



Conclusion

Chapter 3: Socratic Method



Introduction



Section 1: "The Problem" of the Socratic Method



Section 2: Why Socrates’ Refutations are Reasonable



Section 3: Interpretive Misconceptions



Section 4: What Guarantee does Socrates have that he is right?



Conclusion

Chapter 4: Socratic Piety



Introduction



Section 1: Socrates the Anti-Authoritarian?



Section 2: Two Theories of Civil Disobedience



Section 3: Politico-Epistemic Humility in the Apology



Section 4: Politico-Epistemic Humility in the Crito



Conclusion

Conclusion



Section 1: Socrates Mystagogos



Section 2: Socrates and Martin Luther King

List of References



General Index



Index Locorum