Plato's Cratylus : : proceedings from the Eleventh Symposium Platonicum Pragense / / edited by Vladimír Mikeš.

"This volume is a collection of papers originally presented at the Eleventh Symposium Platonicum Pragense, held in Prague in November 9th and 10th, 2017. Some dialogues in the corpus of Plato's works have a straightforward importance, position and overall role. The Cratylus is not one of t...

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Superior document:Brill's Plato Studies
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Brill's Plato Studies
Physical Description:1 online resource (210 pages)
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Summary:"This volume is a collection of papers originally presented at the Eleventh Symposium Platonicum Pragense, held in Prague in November 9th and 10th, 2017. Some dialogues in the corpus of Plato's works have a straightforward importance, position and overall role. The Cratylus is not one of them. In this dialogue Plato touches on questions of longstanding importance to him - as we can conclude from other dialogues - and raises new questions which, given the space dedicated to them, should be worth asking when one is dealing with "correctness of names". And yet there has been wide disagreement about the dialogue's meaning"--
ISBN:9004473025
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: edited by Vladimír Mikeš.