ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some closing thoughts on the preceeding chapters of this book. The book's main message seems to be that one has given rather too much attention to parrhesianess as self-situatedness, and too little to reflexiveness as practice. It is very hard to become aware of, let alone overcome, one's biases by cognitive work alone. Without cognitive work, however, one is neither primed for taking in social corrections to what one does, and neither is one able to translate social corrections into new ways of thinking. Two particularly interesting practices in this regard are prudence and parrhesia: fearless, truth-telling speech. That is no argument against trying-the obligation loses none of its power for being a hard one to handle-but it means that a parrhesiast who is surprised when parrhesia does not work and the danger that is invariably involved becomes real has not really been thinking things through.
