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Cratylus (Annotated)

Cratylus (Annotated)
Author: Cratylus (Annotated)
Publisher: Blurb
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2019-05-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780368727276

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Cratylus was an ancient Athenian philosopher from the mid-late 5th century BCE, known mostly through his portrayal in Plato's dialogue Cratylus. He was a radical proponent of Heraclitean philosophy and influenced the young Plato. Little is known of Cratylus beyond his status as a disciple of Heraclitus of Ephesus, Asia Minor. Modern biographers have not reached consensus on his approximate date of birth, arguing alternately for an age comparable either to Plato or Socrates. Cratylus is mentioned in Aristotle's Metaphysics in a passage which seems to imply that he was an established and active philosopher in Athens during the mid-late 5th century, and that Plato was briefly interested in his teachings prior to aligning with Socrates.


Cratylus (Annotated)

Cratylus (Annotated)
Author: Plato
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2016-10-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781539739425

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Cratylus is the name of a dialogue by Plato. Most modern scholars agree that it was written mostly during Plato's so-called middle period. In the dialogue, Socrates is asked by two men, Cratylus and Hermogenes, to tell them whether names are "conventional" or "natural," that is, whether language is a system of arbitrary signs or whether words have an intrinsic relation to the things they signify. Cratylus was the first intellectual influence on Plato (Sedley). Aristotle states that Cratylus influenced Plato by introducing to him the teachings of Heraclitus, according to MW. Riley.


Plato's Cratylus

Plato's Cratylus
Author: David Sedley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2003-11-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 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.


Names and Nature in Plato's Cratylus

Names and Nature in Plato's Cratylus
Author: Rachel Barney
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2001-08-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 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.


The Cratylus of Plato

The Cratylus of Plato
Author: Francesco Ademollo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 559
Release: 2011-02-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 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.


The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle

The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle
Author: Christopher Shields
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 731
Release: 2012-08-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0195187482

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This book reflects the lively international character of Aristotelian studies, drawing contributors from Europe, North America, and Asia. It also reflects the broad range of activity Aristotelian studies comprise today, informed by cutting-edge philological research and focusing as its core activity on textual exegesis and philosophical criticism.


Proclus' Commentary on the Cratylus in Context

Proclus' Commentary on the Cratylus in Context
Author: Robbert Maarten van den Berg
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2007-12-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9047423720

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The Cratylus contains Plato’s important, yet ambiguous discussion of language. By studying the reception of this text in antiquity, this book explores the various ideas on language and its relation to philosophy in the Platonic tradition. This discussion provides the backdrop for a detailed analysis of the commentary on the dialogue by Proclus. His, often original, views on language are, it appears, the product of a critical reevaluation of those of his predecessors, whereas his interpretation of the Cratylus throws new light on that dialogue. This book will thus be of interest both to students of Plato and the Platonic tradition, as well as to those working on ancient theories of language.


Forgotten Paths

Forgotten Paths
Author: Davide Del Bello
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2007-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 081321484X

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In Forgotten Paths, Davide Del Bello draws on the insights of Giambattista Vico and examines exemplary texts from classical, medieval, and Renaissance culture with the intent to trace the links between etymological and allegorical ways of knowing, writing, thinking, and arguing