The Cratylus of Plato

出版者:Cambridge University Press

作者:Dr Francesco Ademollo

页数:560

出版时间:2011-2-3

价格:GBP 85.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780521763479

图书标签:语言哲学哲学语言学柏拉图对话录柏拉图philosophylinguistics西洋古代

The Cratylus, one of Plato's most difficult and intriguing dialogues, explores the relations between a name and the thing it names. The questions that arise lead the characters to face a number of major issues: truth and falsehood, relativism, etymology, the possibility of a perfect language, the relation between the investigation of names and that of reality, the Heraclitean flux theory and the Theory of Forms. This full-scale 2011 commentary on the Cratylus offers a definitive interpretation of the dialogue. It contains translations of the passages discussed and a line-by-line analysis which deals with textual matters and unravels Plato's dense and subtle arguments, reaching a novel interpretation of some of the dialogue's main themes as well as of many individual passages. The book is intended primarily for graduate students and scholars, both philosophers and classicists, but presupposes no previous acquaintance with the subject and is accessible to undergraduates.