The Cratylus of Plato: A Commentary

ISBN-13: 9781108458276 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 558 str.

Francesco Ademollo

Opis

This book is a full-scale commentary on the Cratylus, one of Plato's most difficult and intriguing dialogues.

Recenzje

'[This book] strikes me as a model of its kind. Dr Ademollo writes with the highest degree of lucidity and fluency, setting out the various positions and arguments with complete clarity and making judicious use of the resources of contemporary philosophy … the book is one of the most attractively written which I have come across for some time.' Christopher Taylor, Phronesis

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Cratylus' naturalism (383a–384c); 2. Hermogenes' conventionalism (383a–384c); 3. Naturalism defended (386e–390e); 4. Naturalism unfolded (390e–394e); 5. Naturalism illustrated: the etymologies of 'secondary' names (394e–421c); 6. Naturalism illustrated: the primary names (421c–427c); 7. Naturalism discussed (427e–433c); 8. Naturalism refuted and conventionalism defended (433b–439b); 9. Flux and forms (439b–440e); Appendix 1. The text of 437d10–438b8; Appendix 2. Some interpolations and non-mechanical errors.