La nozione di legame è centrale nel commento del neoplatonico Proclo al "Timeo" di Platone, in particolare per quanto riguarda la costituzione del “corpo del mondo” secondo il legame della proporzione. Ma nel Commento al "Cratilo", esaminando l’etimologia di Zeus, Proclo propone una nuova riflessione sulle pagine del "Timeo". L’accostamento poggia ...
The current paper contains a comparative reading of the Phaedrus and the Cratylus. Some of their central topics are here contrasted in order to highlight the characteristic traits of Platonic thought present in both dialogues. The description of dialectic in the Phaedrus fits well with a Socratic definition in the Cratylus which clearly specifies t...
This PhD thesis discusses the concept of allegory from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods. In the first chapter, which discusses the hermeneutics of allegorical reading in the late Archaic and Classical periods, I aim to show that previous discussions have misunderstood both the texts which allegorical readers interpreted and the interpretative...
In the present contribution I intend to argue the connection between the paradigmatic employment of the weaving technique within the Sophist and the Cratylus and the one in the Statesman. In the first part I will cast light on Plato’s perfect knowledge of the articulation of weaving as a series of individual procedures, within the corpus of his dia...
L’article étudie deux enchaînements argumentatifs de la réfutation d’Hermogène dans le Cratyle, l’identification de la praxis à une forme d’être, puis du langage à une praxis (386e6-387c4). Il s’efforce de montrer sur quel procédé dialectique se fonde la première de ces identifications, puis comment elle est justifiée par les exemples que prend Soc...
Published in Apeiron
The Cratylus’ main concern is to outline and evaluate the competing views of language held by two characters, Hermogenes and Cratylus, who disagree about whether convention or nature (respectively) are the source of onomastic correctness. Hermogenes has been thought to hold two radically different views by different scholars, one extreme convention...
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to examine the implications of Plato’s use of the term stoicheion, since his awareness of stoicheion’s polysemy reveals his view of the origin, the complexity and, at the same time, the order of reality. Moreover, his use of stoicheion allowed him both to inherit and to detach himself from his predecessors. I begi...
In the light of Socrates’ largely neglected etymological account of the name Hermes, this article reexamines the dialogue’s perplexing conclusion that reality should not be sought through names, but through itself. By a close scrutiny of three claims made in this etymology – that language is commercial, thievish and deceptive – it argues that Socra...
Dans le polythéisme grec, le choix du nom de la divinité est une étape fondamentale dans toute interaction entre humains et non-humains. Si, pour de nombreuses divinités, il porte avant tout sur l’épithète qui viendra compléter le nom divin, il advient que pour certains dieux, le théonyme est lui-même l’objet de ce choix. Le cas d’Athéna est, à ce ...
Published in Elenchos
Euthydemus is included neither in Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker by Diels–Kranz nor in Sofisti. Testimonianze e frammenti by Untersteiner nor in Early Greek Philosophy by Laks and Most. Likewise, the great twentieth century works on the Sophists do not give space to him, at best mentioning him briefly. Yet Euthydemus is the author of a fragment, w...
