Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations for Ancient Works Cited Introduction: Socrates and the Hermeneutic of Estrangement PART I. SOCRATIC PHENOMENOLOGY 1. Setting Aside the Subject-Object Framework in Reading Plato Aristotelian Assessments of Plato''s Socrates Construction or Destruction in the Early Dialogues From Excessive Being to Objective Reality and Back Articulating Plato''s Anti-Relativism Distinguishing Socrates'' Search for Definitions from Twentieth-Century Nominalism Excavating the Everyday Understanding of Being in Plato Consequences of Presupposing an Understanding of Being as Objective 2. On Doxa as the Appearing of ''What Is " Doxa versus Opinion Phainesthai and Doxa PART II. VIRTUE''S ONTOLOGICAL EXCESS AND DISTANCE 3. The Excessive Truth of Socratic Discourse The Indefinsibility of Philosophy in Plato''s Apology of Socrates Socrates'' Muthos Socrates'' Logos The Prooimioni to Socrates'' Apologia The Rhetorical Discourse of Socrates'' Accusers Socrates'' Way of Discourse in His Defense Socratic Truth as Deinos Socrates'' Way of Discourse in His Philosophical Activity 4. The Sheltering of Thechn e versus the Exposure of Human Wisdom Socrates versus the Sophists From Shelter to Exposure The Techn e -Tuch e Antithesis The Socratic Understanding of Techn e in Light of Metaphysics Alpha The Non-Knowing of Virtue as Socrates'' Aim Socrates and the Techn e-Model of Virtue 5. The Truthful Elenctic Pathos of Painful Concern Elenctic Pain and Being Concerned by Virtue Melet e in the Apology and Aporia throughout the Early Dialogues A Phenomenological Consideration of Melet e /Aporia Serenity in the Interpretations of Nehamas, Vlastos, and the Stoics Melet e /Aporia as Itself the Al e theia of ''What Virtue Is'' Distance and Excess versus Transcendence of Immanence PART III.

SOCRATIC VIRTUE IN THE FACE OF EXCESSIVE TRUTH 6. The Courage of Virtue and the Distant Horizon of the Whole in the Laches Finite Transcendence and Socratic "Being With" Sophistication and the Everyday Attitude in the Introduction of the Two Generals The Unity of the Question ''What is Virtue?'' Being Many Everyday Aristotle on Socrates and Definition Katholou Meno 71d-73d Euthyphro 5c-7a Socrates'' Interlocutors and the Confusion of Appearance and Being Aporia and the Truth of Appearances The Socratic Here and Now CONCLUSION: APORIA IN THE MIDDLE DIALOGUES Idea/Eidos as ''Look'' and Phenomenal Being in the Middle Dialogues Al e theia as Divine Wandering The Good beyond Being and the Ideas as Excessive Measures Human Monstrosity and Being between One and Many Notes Bibliography Index.