Plato's Cratylus: Argument, Form, and Structure (Value Inquiry Book Series 168) (Value Inquiry Book) (Value Inquiry Book)

✍ Scribed by Michael W. Riley

Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 183
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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. “Among the varied theories and approaches rivaling one another and enlivening Platonic scholarship today, Riley's entry must be regarded as a significant event. … In the light of Riley's study, the Cratylus will gain added stature as evidence for the larger identity of Platonic thought.” Thomas G. Rosenmeyer, University of California, Berkeley

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