2. TELLING THE
TRUTH
A POLITICAL QUESTION
SPEAKING THE TRUTH
COMPARATIVE WORK
A STANDPOINT FOR INTERROGATION
A well-known teller of truths
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3. SEEMING
SIMILARITIES
TRUTH IS SPOKEN
CLASSICAL INFLUENCES
BUT
THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TRUTH,
SPEECH AND SPEAKER DIFFER
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4. ARENDT
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5. ARENDTIAN
POLITICS
THE PUBLIC/PRIVATE DIVIDE
ACTION
REVELATION OF THE SELF
“WHO ARE YOU?”
THE HUMAN WORLD
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6. ARENDTIAN DOXA
DIFFERENT FROM PREVIOUS USES
(PRESOCRATIC, CULTURAL THEORY
ETC.)
DOXA AND THE δοκει μοι
THE UNFOLDING WORLD
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7. WORLD
ACTION
DOXA
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8. The
World of
Human
Truth
Speaker
Action
Public
Responses
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9. FOUCAULT
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10. DEFINING
PARRHESIA
PEJORATIVE SENSE
POSITIVE SENSE
TWO FOUNDATIONS
REGIMES OF TRUTH
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11. TWO FOUNDATIONS
BINDING OF TRUTH
TO SPEAKER
THE PARRHESIASTIC
GAME
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12. THREE OTHER MODALITIES
Prophecy Wisdom Techne
(τέχνη)
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13. ANTI-DEMOCRATIC
PARRHESIA CANNOT FUNCTION
WITHIN DEMOCRACY
ETHICAL DIFFERENTIATION
UNDOING DUTY
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14. PARRHESIASTIC
PRACTICE
PRIOR TO SPEAKING
REFLECTION
PRIVATE INTERLOCUTORS
HARMONY
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15. PARRHESIA:
Individual
Parrhesiastic
Practice
Ethical
Improvement
Bound Truth Speaker
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16. PRIMA FACIE
SIMILARITIES
CLASSIC EXAMPLES
SPEECH
ETHOPOESIS/CHARACTER
FORMATION
REVELATION
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17. SPEAKING TRUTH
DOXA’S TRUTH IS NOT WHAT
ONE SPEAKS
THE PARRHESIAST SPEAKS THE
TRUTH
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18. THE OTHER
PRIVATE VS. PUBLIC
CHOICE
MEDIATION
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19. THE ARENA OF
TRUTH
INDIVIDUALISM OF PARRHESIA
PARRHESIASTIC INTERLOCUTORS
FORM OF ADDRESS
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20. DEMOCRACY
REDEFINING COURAGE
ETHICAL DIFFERENTIATION
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21. ETHICAL
DIFFERENTIATION
RECOGNISING THE PARRHESIAST
FOUNDATION OF THE GAME
WHAT OF THE ETHICALLY
UNDERDEVELOPED?
PRIVATISATION OF TRUTH
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22. IN SUMMARY
PARRHESIA IS INDIVIDUAL
STEPPING AWAY FROM
CONNECTIONS TO OTHERS TO
FIND THEIR OWN TRUTH
DOXA IS PUBLIC
TRUTH BECOMES A COLLECTIVE
PRODUCTION
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