3. The Late Arrival of Language: Word, Nature, and the Divine in Plato's Cratylus
- Sarah Coakley
Published Online: 16 AUG 2012
DOI: 10.1002/9781118321997.ch3
Copyright © 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Book Title
Faith, Rationality, and the Passions
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How to Cite
Pickstock, C. (2012) The Late Arrival of Language: Word, Nature, and the Divine in Plato's Cratylus, in Faith, Rationality, and the Passions (ed S. Coakley), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781118321997.ch3
Publication History
- Published Online: 16 AUG 2012
- Published Print: 10 SEP 2012
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781444361933
Online ISBN: 9781118321997
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- the late arrival of language, and the divine in Plato's Cratylus;
- Phaedo of Socrates's bodily disposition;
- “The other Plato” interlinking to three things;
- Humean naturalist immanence/or Kantian transcendentalism;
- reading Plato, post-modern way of the “terminal”;
- Plato linking language with synaesthesia, arts and crafts as mimetic;
- questions, on a sense of felt mimesis, as between word and thing;
- conceptual acts, for Plato an act of naming;
- linguistic character of reason as λóγζ linked to Plato's theory