much more comprehensible later, when we understand your first principles. SARTRE: Why not now? You admitted that one can enter my philosophy at any point. Why not here, then, with a phenomenology of compliments and insults? That would be a nicely concrete starting point. SOCRATES: I think we should follow the traditional order from the more abstract and general principles to the more concrete and particular applications, for the sake of clarity, and brevity, and to avoid repeating ourselves and going