| Foreword: Francois Ewald and Alessandro Fontana |
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| Translator's Note |
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One 5 January 1983: First Hour |
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Study of Kant's text: What is Enlightenment? |
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Conditions of publication: journals |
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The encounter between Christian Aufklarung and Jewish Haskala: freedom of conscience |
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Philosophy and present reality |
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The question of the Revolution |
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Two 5 January 1983: Second Hour |
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The idea of tutelage (minorite): neither natural powerlessness nor authoritarian deprivation of rights |
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Way out from the condition of tutelage and critical activity |
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The shadow of the three Critiques |
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The difficulty of emancipation: laziness and cowardice; the predicted failure of liberators |
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Motivations of the condition of tutelage: superimposition of obedience and absence of reasoning; confusion between the private and public use of reason |
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The problematic turn at the end of Kant's text |
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Three 12 January 1983: First Hour |
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Definition of the subject to be studied this year |
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Parresia and culture of self |
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Galen's On the Passions and Errors of the Soul |
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Parresia: difficulty in defining the notion; bibliographical reference points |
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An enduring, plural, and ambiguous notion |
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Plato faced with the tyrant of Syracuse: an exemplary scene of parresia |
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Parresia versus demonstration, teaching, and discussion |
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Four 12 January 1983: Second Hour |
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Irreducibility of the parrhesiastic to the performative utterance: opening up of an unspecified risk/public expression of a personal conviction/bringing a free courage into play |
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Pragmatics and dramatics of discourse |
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Classical use of the notion of parresia: democracy (Polybius) and citizenship (Euripides) |
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Five 19 January 1983: First Hour |
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Ion in the mythology and history of Athens |
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Political context of Euripides' tragedy: the Nicias peace |
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Alethurgic schema of the tragedy |
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The implication of the three truth-tellings: oracle, confession (l'aveu), and political discourse |
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Structural comparison of Ion and Oedipus the King |
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The adventures of truth-telling in Ion: the double half-lie |
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Six 19 January 1983: Second Hour |
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Ion: A nobody, son of nobody |
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Three categories of citizen |
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Consequences of political intrusion by Ion: private hatreds and public tyranny |
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Parresia irreducible to the actual exercise of power and to the citizen's status |
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The agonistic game of truth-telling: free and risky |
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Historical context: the Cleon/ Nicias debate |
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Seven 26 January 1983: First Hour |
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Continuation and end of the comparison between Ion and Oedipus: the truth does not arise from an investigation but from the clash of passions |
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The rule of illusions and passions |
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The cry of confession and accusation |
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G. Dumezil's analyses of Apollo |
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Dumezil's categories applied to Ion |
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Tragic modulation of the theme of the voice |
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Tragic modulation of the theme of gold |
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Eight 26 January 1983: Second Hour |
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Tragic modulation of the theme of fertility |
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Parresia as imprecation: public denunciation by the weak of the injustice of the powerful |
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Creusa's second confession (aveu): the voice of confession (confession) |
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Final episodes: from murder plan to Athena's appearance |
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Nine 2 February 1983: First Hour |
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Reminder of the Polybius text |
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Return to Ion: divine and human veridictions |
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The three forms of parresia: statutory-political; judicial; moral |
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Political parresia; its connection with democracy; its basis in an agonistic structure |
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Return to the Polybius text: the isegoria/parresia relationship |
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Politeia and dunasteia: thinking of politics as experience |
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Parresia in Euripides: The Phoenician Women; Hippolytus; The Bacchae; Orestes |
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Ten 2 February 1983: Second Hour |
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The rectangle of parresia: formal condition, de facto condition, truth condition, and moral condition |
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Example of the correct functioning of democratic parresia in Thucydides: three discourses of Pericles |
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Bad parresia in Isocrates |
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Eleven 9 February 1983: First Hour |
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Parresia: everyday usage; political usage |
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Reminder of three exemplary scenes: Thucydides; Isocrates; Plutarch |
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Lines of evolution of parresia |
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The four great problems of ancient political philosophy: the ideal city; the respective merits of democracy and autocracy; addressing the Prince's soul; the philosophy/ rhetoric relationship |
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Study of three texts by Plato |
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twelve 9 February 1983: Second Hour |
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Plato's Letters: the context |
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Study of Letter V: the phone of constitutions; reasons for non-involvement |
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Plato's political autobiography |
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Why Plato accepts: kairos; philia; ergon |
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Thirteen 16 February 1983: First Hour |
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Comparison with the Alcibiades |
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The reality of philosophy: the courageous address to power |
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First condition of reality: listening, the first circle |
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The philosophical oeuvre: a choice; a way; an application |
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The reality of philosophy as work of self on self (second circle) |
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Fourteen 16 February 1983: Second Hour |
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245 | (14) |
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The Platonic rejection of writing |
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Mathemata versus sunousia |
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Philosophy as practice of the soul |
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The philosophical digression of Letter VII: the five elements of knowledge |
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The third circle: the circle of knowledge |
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The philosopher and the legislator |
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Final remarks on contemporary interpretations of Plato |
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Fifteen 23 February 1983: First Hour |
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The enigmatic blandness of Plato's political advice |
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The diagnosis, practice of persuasion, proposal of a regime |
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Parresia underpins political advice |
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Sixteen 23 February 1983: Second Hour |
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285 | (14) |
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Philosophy and politics: necessary relationship but impossible coincidence |
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Cynical and Platonic game with regard to politics |
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The new historical conjuncture: thinking a new political unit beyond the city-state |
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From the public square to the Prince's soul |
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The Platonic theme of the philosopher-king |
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Seventeen 2 March 1983: First Hour |
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Reminders about political parresia |
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Points in the evolution of political parresia |
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The major questions of ancient philosophy |
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Study of a text by Lucian |
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Ontology of discourses of veridiction |
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Socratic speech in the Apology |
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The paradox of the political non-involvement of Socrates |
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Eighteen 2 March 1983: Second Hour |
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End of study of Socrates' Apology: parresia/rhetoric opposition |
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Study of the Phaedrus: general plan of the dialogue |
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The conditions of good logos |
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Truth as permanent function of discourse |
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Nineteen 9 March 1983: First Hour |
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The historical turnaround of parresia: from the political game to the philosophical game |
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Philosophy as practice of parresia: the example of Aristippus |
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The philosophical life as manifestation of the truth |
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The permanent address to power |
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The interpellation of each |
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Portrait of the Cynic in Epictetus |
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Modern philosophy and courage of the truth |
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twenty 9 March 1983: Second Hour |
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357 | (20) |
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The obligation of confession (aveu) in Plato: the context of liquidation of rhetoric |
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The three qualities of Callicles: episteme; parresia; eunoia |
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Agonistic game against egalitarian system |
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Socratic speech: basanos and homologia |
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| Course Context |
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| Index of Names |
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| Index of Concepts and Notions |
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