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Cratylus

Κρατύλος

Busto de Platón (Museos Capitolinos, MC 1377)
byPlato

Hermogenes holds that names are pure convention; Cratylus, a follower of Heraclitus, that names possess a natural correctness. Socrates examines both theses through deliberately exuberant etymologies and concludes that knowledge of things cannot be obtained from words, but only from the things themselves. The earliest surviving treatise on philosophy of language.

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Authentic: modern scholarship accepts it almost unanimously as Plato's work.

Editions and translations

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English

  • Plato: Complete Works — Plato

    Plato: Complete Works

    Hackett, 1997

    Translation: varios (ed. John M. Cooper y D. S. Hutchinson)

    ISBN 0872203492

    Volumen único con todo el corpus, incluidos dudosos, espurios y epigramas

  • Plato IV: Cratylus, Parmenides, Greater Hippias, Lesser Hippias

    Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library), 1926

    Translation: Harold North Fowler

    ISBN 9780674991859

    Loeb Classical Library 167, bilingüe

  • Cratylus

    Clarendon Press (Oxford), 1892

    Translation: Benjamin Jowett

    The Dialogues of Plato, 3.ª ed., vol. 1; traducción de dominio público

Español

  • Cratilo o de la propiedad de los nombres

    Medina y Navarro (Madrid), 1871

    Translation: Patricio de Azcárate

    Obras completas de Platón, tomo 4; traducción de dominio público

  • Diálogos II: Gorgias, Menéxeno, Eutidemo, Menón, Crátilo

    Gredos, 1997

    ISBN 9788424908874

    Biblioteca Clásica Gredos 61

  • Apología de Sócrates. Menón. Crátilo

    Alianza Editorial, 2005

    ISBN 9788420657172

Other works by Plato

Sources

  • Cooper, John M. (ed.) y Hutchinson, D. S. (ed. asociado), Plato: Complete Works, Indianápolis, Hackett, 1997 (introducción del editor sobre el corpus, las tetralogías de Trasilo y la autenticidad de cada obra).

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