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Names and Nature in Plato's Cratylus

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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.

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Preface; Introduction: The Argument of the Cratylus; I. From Convention to Nature; I.1 Conventionalism; I.2 Subjectivism and Private Naming; I.3 The Significance of Conventionalism; I.4 Against Conventionalism; I.5 The First Stage of Naturalism: Names as Tools; II. The Second Stage of Naturalism: Function and Genre in the Etymologies; II.1 Rational Reconstruction; II.2 The Inspiration Episode; II.3 The Agonistic Display; II.4 The Etymologies as Agôn; II.5 Plato and Parmenides on the Deceptiveness of Language ; III. The Third Stage of Naturalism: Mimetic Correctness; III.1 Beyond Etymology; III.2 Mimesis and the Elements of Language; III.3 Craft and the Foundations of Correctness; IV. Natural Correctness Re-examined; IV.1 The Dianomê Argument; IV.2 On the Correctness of Images; IV.3 The Two Cratyluses; IV.4 The Sklêrotês Argument ; IV.5 The Names of the Numbers; IV.6 Conclusions About Correctness; V. From Names to Things; V.1 Against the Study of Names ; V.2 Language, Knowledge and Flux; VI. The Cratylus and After: Names and Logoi; VI.1 The Seventh Letter and the Weakness of Language; VI.2 Logos and Knowledge; Chapter VII: The Cratylus and After: False Statement; VII.1 False Statement in the Cratylus; VII.2 The Sophist on Syntax; VII.3 The Sophist on False Statement; Bibliography; Index

About the author

Rachel Barney is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.

Summary

This study offers a comprehensive new interpretation of one of Plato's most enigmatic and controversial dialogues, the Cratylus, showing it to present a complex and unified argument for a positive conclusion.

Product details

Authors Rachel Barney, Barney Rachel
Assisted by Robert Nozick (Editor), Nozick Robert (Editor)
Publisher Taylor and Francis
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 09.08.2001
 
EAN 9780815339656
ISBN 978-0-8153-3965-6
No. of pages 238
Weight 600 g
Series Studies in Philosophy
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works

PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500

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