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one 1 February 1984: First Hour |
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Epistemological structures and alethurgic forms |
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Genealogy of the study of parrhesia: practices of truth-telling about oneself |
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The master of existence in the domain of the care of self |
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Its main defining feature: parrhesia |
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Reminder of the political origin of the notion |
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Double value of parrhesia |
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Structural features: truth, commitment, and risk |
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Parrhesia versus rhetoric |
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Parrhesia as a specific modality of truth-telling |
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Differential study of two other kinds of truth-telling in ancient culture: prophecy and wisdom |
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two 1 February 1984: Second Hour |
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The truth-telling of the technician |
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The object of parrhesiastic truth-telling: ethos |
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The composition of four truth-tellings in Socrates |
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Philosophical truth-telling as joining together of the functions of wisdom and parrhesia |
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Preaching and the university in the Middle Ages |
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A new combinatorial structure of truth-telling |
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The reconfiguration of the four modalities of veridiction in the modern epoch |
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three 8 February 1984: First Hour |
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Parrhesia in Euripides: a privilege of the well-born citizen |
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Criticism of democratic parrhesia: harmful for the city and dangerous for the person who exercises it |
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Socrates' political reserve |
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The blackmail-challenge of Demosthenes |
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The impossibility of ethical differentiation in democracy: the example of the Constitution of the Athenians |
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Four principles of Greek political thought |
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four 8 February 1984: Second Hour |
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57 | (16) |
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The example of Pisistratus |
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Psukhe as site of ethical differentiation |
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Return to Plato's Letter VII |
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Isocrates' speech to Nicocles |
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The transformation of a democratic into an autocratic parrhesia |
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Specificity of philosophical discourse |
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five 15 February 1984: First Hour |
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73 | (22) |
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The danger of forgetfulness of self |
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Socrates' refusal of political commitment |
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Solon confronting Pisistratus |
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The risk of death: the story of the Generals of the Arginusae and Leon of Salamis |
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Socrates' response to the oracle: verification and inquiry |
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Object of the mission: the care of self |
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Irreducibility of Socratic veridiction |
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Emergence of a specifically ethical parrhesia |
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The cycle of Socrates' death as ethical foundation of the care of self |
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six 15 February 1984: Second Hour |
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95 | (22) |
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The great classical interpretations |
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Dumezil's dissatisfaction |
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The solutions of Wilamowitz and Cumont |
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Crito cured of general opinion |
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False opinion as disease of the soul |
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The objections of Cebes and Simmias to the immortality of the soul |
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The joint commitment of souls in discourse |
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Return to the care of self |
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seven 22 February 1984: First Hour |
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Etymological questions around epimeleia |
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Dumezil's method and its extension |
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Plato's Laches: reasons for choosing this text |
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The problem of the education of children |
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The contradictory judgments of Laches and Nicias on the demonstration of armed combat |
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The question of technical competence according to Socrates |
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Socrates' reversal of the dialectical game |
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eight 22 February 1984: Second Hour |
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Socrates and the complete and continuous examination of oneself |
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Bios as object of Socratic parrhesia |
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The symphony of discourse and action |
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Conclusions of the dialogue: final submission to the logos |
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nine 29 February 1984: First Hour |
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157 | (20) |
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The circle of truth and courage |
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Comparison of the Alcibiades and the Laches |
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Metaphysics of the soul and aesthetics of existence |
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The true life and the beautiful life |
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The articulation of truth-telling on mode of life in Cynicism |
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Parrhesia as the major characteristic of the Cynic: texts from Epictetus, Diogenes Laertius, and Lucian |
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Definition of the relationship between truth-telling and mode of life: instrumental, reductive, and test functions |
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ten 29 February 1984: Second Hour |
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Hypotheses concerning the descendants of Cynicism |
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Religious descendants: Christian asceticism |
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Political descendants: revolution as style of existence |
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Aesthetic descendants: modern art |
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Anti-Platonism and anti-Aristotelianism of modern art |
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eleven 7 March 1984: First Hour |
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191 | (26) |
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Bibliographical information |
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Two contrasting Cynic characters: Demetrius and Peregrinus |
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Two contrasting presentations of Cynicism: as imposture or universal of philosophy |
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Doctrinal narrowness and broad social presence of Cynicism |
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Cynic teaching as armature of life |
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The theme of the two ways |
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Traditionality of doctrine and traditionality of existence |
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twelve 7 March 1984: Second Hour |
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The problem of the true life |
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The four meanings of truth: unconcealed; unalloyed; straight (droit); unchanging |
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The four meanings of true love in Plato |
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The four meanings of the true life in Plato |
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The motto of Diogenes: "Change the value of the currency." |
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thirteen 14 March 1984: First Hour |
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231 | (20) |
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The Cynic paradox, or Cynicism as scandalous banality of philosophy |
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Eclecticism with reverse effect |
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The three forms of courage of truth |
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The problem of the philosophical life |
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Traditional components of the philosophical life: armature for life; care of self; useful knowledge; conformable life |
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Interpretations of the Cynic precept: transform the values |
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The two lines of development of the true life: Alcibiades or Laches |
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fourteen 14 March 1984: Second Hour |
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The unconcealed life: Stoic version and Cynic transvaluation |
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The traditional interpretation of the unalloyed life: independence and purity |
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Cynic poverty: real, active, and indefinite |
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Cynic humiliation and Christian humility |
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Cynic reversal of the straight life |
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fifteen 21 March 1984: First Hour |
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269 | (22) |
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The Cynic reversal of the true life into an other life (vie autre) |
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The traditional sense of the sovereign life: the helpful and exemplary sage |
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The theme of the philosopher king |
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The Cynic transformation: the confrontation between Diogenes and Alexander |
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The idea of philosophical militancy |
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sixteen 21 March 1984: Second Hour |
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291 | (16) |
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Reading of Epictetus on the Cynic life (Book III, xxii) |
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Stoic elements of the portrait |
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The philosophical life: from rational choice to divine vocation |
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Ascetic practice as verification |
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Ethical elements of the Cynic mission: endurance, vigilance, inspection |
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The responsibility for humanity |
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seventeen 28 March 1984: First Hour |
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307 | (18) |
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The two aspects of the Cynic life as sovereign life: bliss and manifestation of truth |
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The Cynic standpoint: conformity to the truth, self-knowledge, and supervision of others |
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The transformation of self and the world |
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Transition to Christian asceticism: continuities |
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Differences: the other world and the principle of obedience |
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eighteen 28 March 1984: Second Hour |
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The use of the term parrhesia in the first pre-Christian texts: human and divine modalities |
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Parrhesia in the New Testament: confident faith and openness of heart |
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Parrhesia in the Fathers: insolence |
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Development of an anti-parrhesiastic pole: suspicious knowledge of self |
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The truth of life as condition of access to an other world (un monde autre) |
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| Course Context |
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343 | (16) |
| Index of concepts and notions |
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359 | (4) |
| Index of names |
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