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The Cratylus of Plato : a commentary /
The first full-scale commentary on the Cratylus, one of Plato's most difficult and intriguing dialogues.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: I.1. Subject and structure of the dialogue
- I.1.1. The correctness of names
- I.1.2. A map
- I.1.3. Making sense of etymology
- I.2. The characters
- I.2.1. Cratylus
- I.2.2. Hermogenes
- I.3. The date
- I.3.1. The dramatic date
- I.3.2. The relative date
- I.4. The evidence for the text
- 1.1. The thesis
- 1.1.1. First approach to the thesis (383ab)
- 1.1.2. More details: Hermogenes' name (383b-384c)
- 1.1.3. The origin of natural names
- 1.2. Before Cratylus
- 2.1. Convention and individual decision (384c-385b)
- 2.1.1. First statement (380e)
- 2.1.2. Public and private names (385ab)
- 2.2. Truth and falsehood in sentences and names (385bd)
- 2.2.1. True and false sentences (385b)
- 2.2.2. The parts of a sentence. True and false names (385cd)
- 2.2.3. Truth values and sentence structure
- 2.2.4. The passage's function in context
- 2.2.5. Authenticity and position of the passage.
- 2.2.6. Proclus' testimony
- 2.3. Convention and individual decision: further details (385de)
- 2.4. Hermogenes and Protagoras (385e-386e)
- 2.4.1. Man the measure of all things? (385e-386a)
- 2.4.2. The refutation of Protagoras [--] and of Euthydemus (386ad)
- 2.4.3. Conclusion: objects have a stable being (386de)
- 2.5. Before Hermogenes
- 2.5.1. Empedoclean and Thucydidean 'conventionalism'
- 2.5.2. De natura hominis and Democritus
- 3.1. First argument: the naturalness of actions (386e-387d)
- 3.1.1. The naturalness of actions. Cutting and burning (386e-387b)
- 3.1.2. Speaking (387bc)
- 3.1.3. Naming (387cd)
- 3.2. Second argument: the function of names (387d-388c)
- 3.2.1. Names as instruments (387d-388c)
- 3.2.2. Aristotle on names as instruments
- 3.3. Third argument: enter the namegiver (388c-389a)
- 3.3.1. The use and the making of instruments (388cd)
- 3.3.2. The lawgiver as name-maker (388d-389a)
- 3.3.3. Who is the lawgiver?
- 3.4. Fourth argument: instruments, names and forms (389a-390e).
- 3.4.1. Instruments and forms (382a)
- 3.4.2. Generic and specific forms of tools (389bd)
- 3.4.3. Forms of name (389d-390a)
- 3.4.4. The lawgiver and the dialectician (390bd)
- 3.5. Conclusion (390de)
- 4.1. Searching for a theory (390e-392b)
- 4.2. The theory discovered. Naturalism and synonymy (392b-394e)
- 4.2.1. 'Scamandrius' and Astyanax' (392bd)
- 4.2.2. Astyanax' and 'Hector' (392d-393b). The argument previewed
- 4.2.3. A lion begets a lion [--] and a king a king (393bd)
- 4.2.4. The relative irrelevance of letters and syllables (323de)
- 4.2.5. Synonymical Generation runs wild. The power' of names (324ab)
- 4.2.6. 'Hector' and Astyanax' again (394be)
- 4.3. Conclusion (394e-396c)
- 5.1. The arrangement of the etymologies
- 5.1.1. Analysis of 350-421c
- 5.1.2. The systematic character of the etymologies
- 5.1.3. Platonic views in the etymologies (396bc, 399bc, 400ab, 403a-404b, 410b)
- 5.2. The etymologies and the argument of the Cratylus
- 5.2.1. Ordinary proper names put aside (397ab).
- 5.2.2. The etymologies as doxography, or the suicide of naturalism (400d-401a)
- 5.2.3. The etymology as doxography (continued): the theory of flux (401d, 402a, 411bc)
- 5.3. More on the theory of flux
- 5.3.1. Locomotion
- 5.3.2. The Penetrating Principle (412-413d)
- 5.3.3. Further evidence about the atomists in the Cratylus (412b, 414a, 420d)
- 5.3.4. Atomism in the Theaetetus
- 5.3.5. The Penetrating Principle again (413e-414a, 417bc, 418a-419b)
- 5.3.6. Flux and relativity?
- 5.4. Meaning in the etymologies
- 5.5. Plato's attitude to the etymologies
- 5.5.1. Seriousness in the etymologies (414c-439bc)
- 5.5.2. The inspiration of Euthyphro (396c-397a)
- 5.5.3. Humour and detachment in the etymologies (398de, 399a, 406bc)
- 5.5.4. The etymologies' epistemological status
- 6.1. From secondary to primary names (421c-422c)
- 6.1.1. The postulation of primary names (421c-422c)
- 6.1.2. Intermezzo: the meaning of r3iiiia (399db, 421b, e)
- 6.2. The correctness of primary names (422c-424a).
- 6.2.1. Introduction (422ce)
- 6.2.2. Indication by gestural mimesis (422e-423b)
- 6.2.3. Indication by vocal mimesis (423bc)
- 6.2.4. Vocal imitation of the essence (423c-424a)
- 6.3. The imposition of primary names (424a-425b)
- 6.3.1. The etymologies of primary names: false start (424ab)
- 6.3.2. Division of letters (424bc)
- 6.3.3. Division of beings (424d)
- 6.3.4. Matching letters and beings (424d-425a)
- 6.3.5. Intermezzo: names, verbs and speech (425a)
- 6.3.6. First assessment of Socrates' programme
- 6.3.7. How names are and how they should be (425ab)
- 6.4. The investigation of actual primary names (425b-427d)
- 6.4.1. Disclaimers and preliminaries (425b-426b)
- 6.4.2. Letters and primary names: the examples (426c-427c)
- 6.4.3. Conclusion of Socrates' survey (427cd)
- 6.4.4. An assessment of the mimetic survey
- 6.4.5. The discussion with Hermogenes concluded (427de)
- 7.1. Introduction (427e-429c)
- 7.1.1. Preliminary exchanges (427e-428e)
- 7.1.2. Better and worse names? (428e-429b).
- 7.1.3. Hermogenes' name, again (429bc)
- 7.2. Naturalism and falsehood (429c-431c)
- 7.2.1. Naturalism and the impossibility of false speaking (429cd)
- 7.2.2. Cratylus against false speaking (429d)
- 7.2.3. Cratylus against false speaking, continued
- 7.2.4. Socrates' defence of false speaking (430a-431c)
- 7.2.5. Conclusion
- 7.3. Naturalism and imperfect resemblance (431c-433b)
- 7.3.1. First round (431ce)
- 7.3.2. Second round: Cratylus' argument from spelling (431e-432a)
- 7.3.3. Second round: Socrates' reply and the Two Cratyluses' (432ad)
- 7.3.4. Conclusions on fine and bad names (432d-433b)
- 8.1. Resemblance and convention in names (433b-435d)
- 8.1.1. Preliminaries (433b-434b)
- 8.1.2. The sklerotes argument: conflicting letters in the same name (434bd)
- 8.1.3. The sklerotes argument: understanding, indication, correctness (434e-435b)
- 8.1.4. Convention 'contributes' to correctness (435bc)
- 8.1.5. Conclusions on resemblance and convention in names (435cd)
- 8.1.6. Convention elsewhere in the Platonic corpus.
- 8.1.7. The ancient commentators
- 8.2. Names and knowledge (435d-439b)
- 8.2.1. Cratylus' view that names 'teach' (435d-436a)
- 8.2.2. Names might express false beliefs (436a-437d)
- 8.2.3. Names and the namegiver's knowledge (437d-438d)
- 8.2.4. Knowledge 'without names' (438d-430)
- 9.1. The arguments (439b-440d)
- 9.1.1. The lawgivers in a whirl (439bc)
- 9.1.2. Flux and forms: the arguments previewed
- 9.1.3. Enter the forms, exeunt particulars (439cd)
- 9.1.4. The first argument (439d)
- 9.1.5. The first argument and the Theaetetus
- 9.1.6. The second argument (439e)
- 9.1.7. The third argument (439e-440a)
- 9.1.8. The fourth argument (44oab)
- 9.1.9. Flux rejected? (44obc)
- 9.1.10. Conclusion (44ocd)
- 9.2. Epilogue (44ode).