Appearance and reality. Socrates’ aims and strategies in Plato’s Cratylus
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Appearance and reality. Socrates’ aims and strategies in Plato’s Cratylus. / Jørgensen, Steffen Lund.
Det Humanistiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet, 2015. 213 p.Research output: Book/Report › Ph.D. thesis › Research
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TY - BOOK
T1 - Appearance and reality. Socrates’ aims and strategies in Plato’s Cratylus
AU - Jørgensen, Steffen Lund
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - What are Socrates ’ aims and strategies in the Cratylus? Does Socrates seek to convince his interlocutors that there is a source of linguistic correctness, which goes beyond human agreement, and which really determines whether the name of something is the correct name? Or does Socrates seek to achieve the opposite? What strategies does Socrates use, and why? These questions are central to my thesis, which offer s a new interpretation of Plato’s Cratylus . In the thesis I argue that Socrates really does seek to convince his interlocutors that there is a “natural correctness of names” , but that he does so in a very special way, which is closely linked to the specific characters and views of his interlocutors.
AB - What are Socrates ’ aims and strategies in the Cratylus? Does Socrates seek to convince his interlocutors that there is a source of linguistic correctness, which goes beyond human agreement, and which really determines whether the name of something is the correct name? Or does Socrates seek to achieve the opposite? What strategies does Socrates use, and why? These questions are central to my thesis, which offer s a new interpretation of Plato’s Cratylus . In the thesis I argue that Socrates really does seek to convince his interlocutors that there is a “natural correctness of names” , but that he does so in a very special way, which is closely linked to the specific characters and views of his interlocutors.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Socrates
KW - Plato
M3 - Ph.D. thesis
BT - Appearance and reality. Socrates’ aims and strategies in Plato’s Cratylus
PB - Det Humanistiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet
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