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• Correctness of Names (Orthotēs Onomatōn)

  The question the Cratylus is built around: what makes this the right name for that? Plato stages two answers — Hermogenes' conventionalism (a name is correct by agreement) and Cratylus' naturalism (each name names by nature) — and through…

• Cratylus Plato, c. 4th c. BCE

  Author: Plato · Year: c. 4th c. BCE (trans. C.D.C. Reeve, Hackett 1997) · Type: dialogue

• Ion Plato, c. 4th c. BCE

  Author: Plato · Year: c. 4th c. BCE (trans. Paul Woodruff, Hackett 1997) · Type: dialogue

• Mimesis (Imitation)

  Mimēsis — imitation, copying, representation — is one of Plato's most consequential and most ambivalent concepts. In the Wave-1 dialogues it does two distinct kinds of work: in the Cratylus a name is a vocal imitation of a thing's being/es…

• Poetic Inspiration (Enthousiasmos / the Magnet)

  Plato's account — sharpest in the Ion — of poetry as divine possession (enthousiasmos) rather than skill: the poet composes not "by mastering the subject, but by a divine gift" (theia moira), "out of his mind… his intellect is no longer in…

• Republic Plato, c. 4th c. BCE

  Author: Plato · Year: c. 4th c. BCE (trans. G.M.A. Grube, rev. C.D.C. Reeve, Hackett 1997) · Type: dialogue