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Palmer, Michael D.: Names, Reference and Correctness in Plato's "Cratylus". New York, Bern, Frankfurt/M., Paris, 1988. XX, 207 pp. Peter Lang Vlg. 1989. ISBN: 978-0-8204-0708-1
The Cratylus unfolds as a confrontation between competing theses on the question of the correctness of names. Since Plato levels criticism against both theses, we are led to wonder whether Plato himself takes a position on the main issue. Dr. Palmer argues that we can discern in the Cratylus a positive statement of Plato's own views. Plato, unlike many contemporary theorists who follow Frege, does not presuppose that intensional entities such as concepts or meanings mediate the relation between a name and its nominatum. Plato believes that reality divides into discrete, natural units and that names are established, in part, to mark these non-conventional units. Plato holds (or at least assumes) that a name is correct if it successfully (and directly) picks out a real unit or entity, and if it aptly describes its nominatum.

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Partenie, Catalin (Editor): Heidegger and Plato: Toward Dialogue, Northwestern University Press, ISBN: 9780810122338
einige Lagerspuren Editorial Reviews\n\nProduct Description\nFor Martin Heidegger the fall of philosophy into metaphysics begins with Plato. Thus, the relationship between the two philosophers is crucial to an understanding of Heidegger--and, perhaps, even to the whole plausibility of postmodern critiques of metaphysics. It is also, as the essays in this volume attest, highly complex, and possibly founded on a questionable understanding of Plato.\n\nAs editors Catalin Partenie and Tom Rockmore remark, a simple way to describe Heidegger's reading of Plato might be to say that what began as an attempt to appropriate Plato (and through him a large portion of Western philosophy) finally ended in an estrangement from both Plato and Western philosophy. The authors of this volume consider Heidegger's thought in relation to Plato before and after the Kehre or turn. In doing so, they take up various central issues in Heidegger's Being and Time (1927) and thereafter, and the questions of hermeneutics, truth, and language. The result is a subtle and multifaceted reinterpretation of Heidegger's position in the tradition of philosophy, and of Plato's role in determining that position.\n\nAbout the Author\nCatalin Partenie is a fellow in the Department of Philosophy, University of Quebec at Montreal. He is editor of Plato: Selected Myths (Oxford, 2004).\n\nTom Rockmore is professor of philosophy at Duquesne University and the author of many books, most recently Marx after Marxism (Blackwell, 2002). He is also co-editor with Daniel Breazeale of New Essays on Fichte's Later Jena Wissenschaftslehre (Northwestern, 2002). , ISBN: 0810122332

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N. Jayapalan Illustrator: . Comprehensive Study of Plato, Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd 2002 ISBN: 9788126900817

New Hardcover . Plato (428 B.C.-347 B.C.) was one of greatest philosophers in the western philosophical tradition. He was the pupil of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle and founder of the 'Academy'. Central to his teachings is the notion of forms, which are located outside the everyday world, timeless, motionless and absolutely real. Plato's philosophy rejects scientific rationalism in favour of arguments. According to him, mind, not matter, is fundamental and material objects are merely imperfect copies of abstract and eternal 'ideas'. The majority of his works are in dialogue form on topics like metaphysics, ethics & politics. The principal speaker in these works in Socrates. The republic, one of most famous dialogues deals with justice, ideal type of state jurisprudence & the concept of 'Good'. The present book is an excellent companion to Plato's life & philosophy. Plato's views on State, Justice, Communism, Education, Democracy and Foreign Relations etc. are discussed and analysed in detail. It includes comparison between the Republic and the Laws and Plato's Contribution to the History of Political Thought. In the end of the book original text of Republic of Plato and the original text of Plato in the Academy aEUR" Forms and Numbers by A.E. Taylor have been given. A topic on Socrates and a chronological Table depicting the important events that took place during the lifetime of Plato have also been included in the book. Printed Pages: 264. .

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Chappell, Timothy: Reading Plato's Theaetetus. Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2004. ISBN: 3896653156
Zustand: (Fast sehr) gut. - International Plato Studies. Published under the auspices of the International Plato Society. Series Editors: Luc Brisson (Paris), Christopher J. Rowe (Durham), Maria Isabel Santa Cruz (Buenos Aires), Mauro Tulli (Pisa), Thomas A. Szlezak (Tübingen). Volume 20. - "Timothy Chappell's "Reading Plato's Theaetetus" offers a complete new translation of Plato's most famous dialogue on knowledge, together with an extended philosophical commentary. Dr. Chappell defends an original form of the Unitarian reading of the dialogue, arguing that Plato's aim in this enigmatic work is to show how little we can do towards defining or understanding knowledge, if we try to do it on an empiricist or naturalist basis. The book also contains a wealth of argument on subsidiary topics - the language of the dialogue, its date and place in Plato's development, and its relaton to earlier and later Greek thought in general. - Dr. Chappell is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee." (Verlagstext). ISBN: 3896653156 - , ISBN-13: 9783896653154

1. Auflage. International Plato Studies. Volume 20. 246 S. Gr. 8° (23,5cm), Pappbd.

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