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Cratylus

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ISBN-10: 0872204162

ISBN-13: 9780872204164

Edition: N/A

Authors: Plato, C. D. C. Reeve

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The Cratylus, Plato's sole dialogue devoted to the relation between language and reality, is acknowledged to be one of his masterpieces. But owing to its often enigmatic content no more than a handful of passages from it have played a part in the global evaluation of Plato's philosophy. This new English translation by C D C Reeve is the first since 1926, and incomparably the most helpful and accessible now available. It opens up the Cratylus to all philosophically interested readers, as well as to cultural historians and to those whose primary concern is the history of linguistics. The full and lucid introduction does much to illuminate the internal dynamic of this important text and to…    
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Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/15/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

Plato was an ancient philosopher and the founder of the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

C. D. C. Reeve is Delta Kappa Epsilon Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Preface
Introduction
Hermogenes and Cratylus on Names
Natures, Actions, and the Truth in Names
The Maker of Names
Natures and Forms, Names and Shuttles
Homer on the Correctness of Names
The Testimony of Names Themselves
The Etymologies
Primary Names
Cratylus on Truth, Falsity, and Fitting
Convention Returns
Knowledge and Instruction
Heracliteanism
Socrates on the Correctness of Names
Conclusion
Plato's Cratylus
Select Bibliography
Index of Names Discussed in the Cratylus