- Title
- Teleology and names in the Platonic and Anaxagorean traditions
- Creator
- Tarrant, Harold
- Relation
- Teleology in the Ancient World: Philosophical and Medical Approaches p. 58-75
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781139567855.005
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- The purpose of this book is to restore the balance by looking at the manifold ways in which teleology in antiquity was viewed. The purpose of the article is to examine a long passage in Plato's Cratylus that postulates the purposeful design of names in a purposeful universe, comparing in particular the Derveni papyrus.
- Subject
- history; ancient philosophy; Plato; etymology; teleological explanation
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1394593
- Identifier
- uon:33728
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781107036635
- Language
- eng
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