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
Biography
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.
"How should we think about what Socrates is doing when he engages this or that youth in conversation? Don Adams’ book offers an answer to this question, inspired by an ancient Greek religious ritual: Socrates is on a mystagogic mission to sting his interlocutor into an epistemological state of inquiry ... Socrates Mystagogos: Initiation into Inquiry is a thought-provoking defense of Socratic practice that will be of interest to a mixed, if not quite well-defined, scholarly audience."
- Andreas Avgousti, Columbia University, USA, in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2017
