The Cratylus of Plato: A Commentary by Francesco Ademollo (PDF)

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The Cratylus, one of Plato’s most difficult and intriguing dialogues, explores the relations between a name and the thing it names. The questions that arise lead the characters to face a number of major issues: truth and falsehood, relativism, etymology, the possibility of a perfect language, the relation between the investigation of names and that of reality, the Heraclitean flux theory and the Theory of Forms. This full-scale commentary on the Cratylus offers a definitive interpretation of the dialogue. It contains translations of the passages discussed and a line-by-line analysis which deals with textual matters and unravels Plato’s dense and subtle arguments, reaching a novel interpretation of some of the dialogue’s main themes as well as of many individual passages. The book is intended primarily for graduate students and scholars, in both philosophy and classics, but presupposes no previous acquaintance with the subject and is accessible to undergraduates.

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⭐I found this a mixed bag. It attempted to succeed as both monograph and commentary, yet never quite succeeds as either. As a monograph, this commentary is missing a central thesis and trajectory. Ademollo takes the Cratylus piece by piece and has substantive thoughts on this or that ‘section’ of the dialogue, but doesn’t draw together his thoughts into a consummate whole.As a commentary, the work fails because, as Ademollo admits, he makes the commentary thicker and closer, thinner and more distant, according to his own personal interest in specific passages.Overall, the commentary is not without certain highlights. Ademollo does a lot of trench-work to defend a few of Sedley’s less developed arguments.

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