Plato's Cratylus : argument, form, and structure / / Michael W. Riley

• Autore: Riley Michael W
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, c2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (183 p.)
• Disciplina: 184
• Soggetto topico: Language and languages - Philosophy
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: List of Figures -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- ONE The Argument in the Cratylus in the Form of a Geometric Demonstration -- TWO Enunciation: Knowledge of Names, like Knowledge of Beautiful Things in General, is Difficult 383a-384c -- THREE I. Construction: Eikasia, Likeness-Making: The Appearance of Reasoning 384c-393b -- FOUR II. Demonstration: Pistis, Belief: Heraclitean Dogmas, Socratic Demands 393b-408d -- FIVE III Demonstration: Dianoia, Systematic Reasoning: An Axiomatic Heraclitean Logos: A Phenomenal Philosophical Dictionary 408d-421c -- SIX IV. Demonstration: Noesis, Knowing: Knowledge as Identical with Perception 421d-436b -- SEVEN Reduction, Recapitulation: 436c-440c -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- About the Author -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Plato's Cratylus
• ISBN: 94-012-0238-9; 1-4237-9189-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827697103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Value inquiry book series ; ; v. 168.