Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Note on Texts and Translations -- Acknowledgments -- Kierkegaard and Socrates: A Study in Philosophy and Faith -- Introduction -- 1 Johannes Climacus, Socratic Philosopher -- Truthful Philosophy: the harmony of speech and deed -- Young Climacus -- Everything Must be Doubted -- Climacus Comes of Age -- 2 Climacus's Thought-Project -- Introducing Climacus -- The Thought-Project -- The Philosophical Hypothesis -- The Religious Hypothesis -- 3 Platonic Interlude: Eros and the God -- Socrates' Faith -- Socrates' Eros -- Eros and the Soul -- 4 Climacus's Poetical Venture -- Socrates as Teacher, the God as Lover -- The King and the Maiden -- Agnes and the Merman -- The Poet's Task -- 5 The Paradox and the Passion of Thought -- Socrates and Self-Knowledge -- Socrates and the Collision -- Excursus on Demonstrating the Existence of God -- Absolute Difference and Sin -- 6 Self-Love and Offense -- Spiritedness and Suffering -- 7 Faith and the Contemporary Follower -- Climacus's Poetical Venture, Continued -- Faith and the Decision of Eternity -- Seeing Is Not Believing, Believing Is Not Seeing -- Gods, Philosophers, and Imposters -- 8 Climacan Interlude: On Historical Necessity -- Coming into Existence, the Historical, the Past -- The Apprehension of the Past -- Belief and Doubt -- Appendix: Belief and Faith -- 9 The Follower at Second Hand and The Moral -- Becoming Aware -- The Struggle with Faith: echoes of socrates -- The Moral -- 10 Socrates in Postscript -- A Lunar Philosophy -- Socrates and the Appropriation of Truth -- Faith and Philosophy -- Epilogue: Kierkegaard on Christ and Socrates -- Socrates' Uniqueness -- Philosophy in Ideality and Actuality -- Works Cited -- Index.