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Proclus' Commentary on the Cratylus in Context : Ancient Theories of Language and Naming

by: Van den Berg, R.M.

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Category: Philosophia Antiqua - Studies in Ancient Philosophy / ISSN 0079-1687
Code: 11718
ISBN-13: 9789004163799 / 978-90-04-16379-9
ISBN-10: 9004163794 / 90-04-16379-4
Publisher: E.J. Brill
Publication Date: 2007
Publication Place: Leiden
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 239
Book Condition: New
Comments: Philosophia Antiqua, 112

 The Cratylus contains Plato's important, yet ambiguous discussion of language. This book explores the various views on language and its relation to philosophy in the Platonic tradition by examining the reception of Plato's Cratylus in antiquity in general, and the commentary of the Neoplatonist Proclus in particular

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One Plato's Cratylus and Aristotle's De Interpretatione: Setting the Scene; Chapter Two The Middle Platonists: Constructing Platonic Doctrines; Chapter Three Porphyry's Aristotelian Semantic Theory and Proclus' Platonic Criticism of it; Chapter Four Proclus' Commentary on the Cratylus (I): The Issue of the Correctness of Names; Chapter Five Proclus' Commentary on the Cratylus (II): Naming, Dialectic, and the Divine Intellect; Chapter Six Proclus' Commentary on the Cratylus (III): Learning from Divine Names; Chapter Seven After Proclus; Bibliography

Subjects:
Cratylus (Plato)
In Platonis Cratylum commentaria (Proclus)
Langage et langues Philosophie
Language and languages Philosophy
PHILOSOPHY History & Surveys Ancient & Classical
Plato
Proclus (Diadochus)
Proclus Diadochus 412-485
Proclus, approximately 410-485
Sprachphilosophie

Series:
Philosophia antiqua, v. 112

 
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Proclus' Commentary on the Cratylus in Context : Ancient Theories of Language and Naming

by: Van den Berg, R.M.

  • ISBN-13: 9789004163799 / 978-90-04-16379-9
  • ISBN-03: 9004163794 / 90-04-16379-4
  • E.J. Brill, Leiden, 2007

Price: 130,00 EURO

1 copy in stock