Porphyry : on Aristotle categories
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Porphyry (AD 232/3 - C.305) is of crucial importance for the history of Aristotelian studies. Born in Tyre and a student of Plotinus in Rome, he later defended Aristotle's Categories against Plotinus, arguing that they were entirely compatible with Platonism. His intervention was decisive: the Categories became a basic textbook of logic for all subsequent Neoplatonist teaching and influenced both the Arabic and Western Traditions. Boethius drew heavily on Porphyry's treatment. The full commentary is lost, but a shorter version survives and is translated here
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Porphyry
Steven K
Strange - Language
- English
- Series
- Ancient commentators on Aristotle
- ISBN
- 9781780934310
- Release date
- 1992
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