The Cratylus of Plato
The Cratylus of Plato

Author: Francesco Ademollo

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-02-03

Total Pages: 559

ISBN-13: 1139494694

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The Cratylus, one of Plato's most difficult and intriguing dialogues, explores the relations between a name and the thing it names. The questions that arise lead the characters to face a number of major issues: truth and falsehood, relativism, etymology, the possibility of a perfect language, the relation between the investigation of names and that of reality, the Heraclitean flux theory and the Theory of Forms. This full-scale commentary on the Cratylus offers a definitive interpretation of the dialogue. It contains translations of the passages discussed and a line-by-line analysis which deals with textual matters and unravels Plato's dense and subtle arguments, reaching a novel interpretation of some of the dialogue's main themes as well as of many individual passages. The book is intended primarily for graduate students and scholars, in both philosophy and classics, but presupposes no previous acquaintance with the subject and is accessible to undergraduates.

Cratylus
Cratylus

Author: Plato

Publisher: Aeterna Press

Published: 2015-09-01

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13:

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THE Cratylus has always been a source of perplexity to the student of Plato. While in fancy and humour, and perfection of style and metaphysical originality, this dialogue may be ranked with the best of the Platonic writings, there has been an uncertainty about the motive of the piece, which interpreters have hitherto not succeeded in dispelling. We need not suppose that Plato used words in order to conceal his thoughts, or that he would have been unintelligible to an educated contemporary. In the Phaedrus and Euthydemus we also find a difficulty in determining the precise aim of the author. Plato wrote satires in the form of dialogues, and his meaning, like that of other satirical writers, has often slept in the ear of posterity. Aeterna Press

Plato's Cratylus
Plato's Cratylus

Author: S. Montgomery Ewegen

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2013-11-14

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0253010519

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Plato's dialogue Cratylus focuses on being and human dependence on words, or the essential truths about the human condition. Arguing that comedy is an essential part of Plato's concept of language, S. Montgomery Ewegen asserts that understanding the comedic is key to an understanding of Plato's deeper philosophical intentions. Ewegen shows how Plato's view of language is bound to comedy through words and how, for Plato, philosophy has much in common with playfulness and the ridiculous. By tying words, language, and our often uneasy relationship with them to comedy, Ewegen frames a new reading of this notable Platonic dialogue.

Names and Nature in Plato's Cratylus
Names and Nature in Plato's Cratylus

Author: Rachel Barney

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2001-08-09

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1135575703

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This study offers a ckomprehensive new interpretation of one of Plato's dialogues, the Cratylus. Throughout, the book combines analysis of Plato's arguments with attentiveness to his philosophical method.

Theophrastus of Eresus: Life, writings, various reports, logic, physics, metaphysics, theology, mathematics
Theophrastus of Eresus: Life, writings, various reports, logic, physics, metaphysics, theology, mathematics

Author: Theophrastus

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9789004111301

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This volume forms part of the large international Theophrastus project started by Brill in 1992 and edited by W.W. Fortenbaugh, R.W. Sharples and D. Gutas . Together with volumes comprising the texts and translations, the commentary volumes provide a new generation of classicists with an up-to-date collection of the fragments and testimonia relating to Theophrastus (c. 370-288/5 B.C), Aristotle's pupil and successor as head of the Lyceum. In the present volume, the focus is on natural philosophy, apart from the study of living things. Topics covered include the principles of scientific enquiry, place, time, motion, the heavens, the sublunary world, meteorology and the study of materials.

Plato's Cratylus
Plato's Cratylus

Author: David Sedley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-11-06

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1139439197

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Plato's Cratylus is a brilliant but enigmatic dialogue. It bears on a topic, the relation of language to knowledge, which has never ceased to be of central philosophical importance, but tackles it in ways which at times look alien to us. In this reappraisal of the dialogue, Professor Sedley argues that the etymologies which take up well over half of it are not an embarrassing lapse or semi-private joke on Plato's part. On the contrary, if taken seriously as they should be, they are the key to understanding both the dialogue itself and Plato's linguistic philosophy more broadly. The book's main argument is so formulated as to be intelligible to readers with no knowledge of Greek, and will have a significant impact both on the study of Plato and on the history of linguistic thought.

Proclus' Commentary on the Cratylus in Context
Proclus' Commentary on the Cratylus in Context

Author: Robbert Maarten van den Berg

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 9004163794

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This book explores the various views on language and its relation to philosophy in the Platonic tradition by examening the reception of Plato's Cratylus in antiquity in general, and the commentary of the Neoplatonist Proclus in particular.

Socrates and the Sophists
Socrates and the Sophists

Author: Plato

Publisher: Hackett Publishing

Published: 2012-07-01

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1585105058

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This is an English translation of four of Plato’s dialogue (Protagoras, Euthydemus, Hippias Major, and Cratylus) that explores the topic of sophistry and philosophy, a key concept at the source of Western thought. Includes notes and an introductory essay. Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Plato’s immediate audience.

Plato's Cratylus
Plato's Cratylus

Author: Vladimír Mikeš

Publisher: Brill's Plato Studies

Published: 2021-12-02

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9789004473010

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"This volume is a collection of papers originally presented at the Eleventh Symposium Platonicum Pragense, held in Prague in November 9th and 10th, 2017. Some dialogues in the corpus of Plato's works have a straightforward importance, position and overall role. The Cratylus is not one of them. In this dialogue Plato touches on questions of longstanding importance to him - as we can conclude from other dialogues - and raises new questions which, given the space dedicated to them, should be worth asking when one is dealing with "correctness of names". And yet there has been wide disagreement about the dialogue's meaning"--

Plato's Cratylus
Plato's Cratylus

Author: Michael W. Riley

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 9042018755

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This book explains how the Cratylus, Plato's apparently meandering and comical dialogue on the correctness of names, makes serious philosophical progress by its notorious etymological digressions. While still a wild ride through a Heraclitean flood of etymologies which threatens to swamp language altogether, the Cratylus emerges as an astonishingly organized evaluation of the power of words.