Sublime

think I understand justice, though I don’t in fact understand it.

Socratic conversation is inquisitive refutation.

(“This is how . . . ”).

These two chapters on Socratic politics contain three counterintuitive assertions about politics. First, you cannot fight injustice.

It is at this point in the discussion that people invoke the objective/subjective distinction.

politicization—the mapping of a disagreement onto a contest—is

there are contexts where we can be more generous with others than with ourselves.

Whereas in order to end up with truth you must court falsehood.