Cratylus
Cratylus (
Life
Little is known of Cratylus beyond his status as a disciple of
Philosophy
In Cratylus' eponymous Platonic dialogue, the character of Socrates states Heraclitus' claim that one cannot step twice into the same stream.[2] According to Aristotle, Cratylus went a step beyond his master's doctrine and proclaimed that it cannot even be done once.[3]
Influence
The contemporary philosophy Cratylism is based on a reconstructed version of Cratylus' theories of flux and language as they appear in Plato's dialogue. It has been influential to Eastern thinkers, including Buddhist semioticians.[4] The Australian poet, academic, and literary critic Professor A. D. Hope published in 1979 a book of essays on poetry titled The New Cratylus..[5]
Cratylus is mentioned twice in Emmanuel Levinas's 1961 book, Totality And Infinity.[6]
See also
References
- ^ a b Debra Nails. The People of Plato: A prosopography of Plato and other Socratics. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2002, p. 105
- ^ Plato, Cratylus, 402a
- ^ Aristotle, Metaphysics, 4.5 1010a10-15
- ^ Fabio Rambelli. A Buddhist Theory of Semiotics. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013, p. 179
- ^ The New Cratylus: Notes on the Craft of Poetry, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1979
- ISBN 978-0-8207-0245-2.