Porphyry On Aristotle Categories

Author : S. Strange
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1780934327
Total Pages : 192 pages
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Download or read book Porphyry: On Aristotle Categories written by S. Strange and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Christos Evangeliou
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Total Pages : 215 pages
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Download or read book Aristotle's categories and Porphyry written by Christos Evangeliou and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christos Evangeliou
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004085381
Total Pages : 240 pages
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Download or read book Aristotle's Categories and Porphyry written by Christos Evangeliou and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1988 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C.C. Evangeliou
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004320709
Total Pages : 229 pages
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Download or read book Aristotle's Categories and Porphyry written by C.C. Evangeliou and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : S.Marc Cohen
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1780933789
Total Pages : 177 pages
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Download or read book Ammonius: On Aristotle Categories written by S.Marc Cohen and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ammonius, who taught most of the leading sixth-century Neoplatonists, introduced the methods of his own teacher, Proclus, from Athens to Alexandria. These are exemplified in his commentaries: for instance, in the set of ten introductory questions prefixed to this commentary, which became standard. The commentary is interesting for the light it sheds on the religious situation in Alexandria. It used to be said that the Alexandrian Neoplatonist school was allowed to remain open after the Athenian school closed because Ammonius has agreed with the Christian authorities to keep quiet about his religious views. On the contrary, as this commentary shows he freely declared his belief in the Neoplatonist deities. The philosophical problems considered by Ammonius offer a unique insight into Aristotle's Categories. They exercise the mind and deepen understanding of the subject matter. Modern readers would do well to put the same questions to themselves.

Author : Michael James Griffin
Publisher : Oxford Classical Monographs
ISBN 13 : 019872473X
Total Pages : 298 pages
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Download or read book Aristotle's Categories in the Early Roman Empire written by Michael James Griffin and published by Oxford Classical Monographs. This book was released on 2015 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume studies the origin and evolution of philosophical interest in Aristotle's 'Categories'. It reconstructs fragments of the earliest commentaries on the treatise, and illuminates their arguments for Aristotle's approach to logic as the foundation of higher education.

Author : Barrie Fleet
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1780938926
Total Pages : 177 pages
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Download or read book Simplicius: On Aristotle Categories 5-6 written by Barrie Fleet and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapters 5 and 6 of Aristotle's Categories describe his first two categories, Substance and Quantity. It is usually taken that Plotinus attacked Aristotle's Categories, but that Porphyry and Iamblichus restored it to the curriculum once and for all. Nonetheless, the introduction to this text stresses how much of the defence of Aristotle Porphyry was able to draw out of Plotinus' critical discussion. Simplicius' commentary is our most comprehensive account of the debate on the validity of Aristotle's Categories. One subject discussed by Simplicius in these chapters is where the differentia of a species (eg the rationality of humans) fits into the scheme of categories. Another is why Aristotle elevates the category of Quantity to second place, above the category of Quality. Further, de Haas shows how Simplicius distinguishes different kinds of universal order to solve some of the problems.

Author : Porphyry
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
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Download or read book On Aristotle Categories written by Porphyry and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Author : Dexippus (the Platonist.)
Publisher : Ancient Commentators on Aristo
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
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Download or read book On Aristotle Categories written by Dexippus (the Platonist.) and published by Ancient Commentators on Aristo. This book was released on 1990 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dexippus, a pupil or follower of lamblichus, preserves a crucial moment in the Neoplatonist interpretation of Aristotle. Aristotle's Categories has been attacked by Plotinus, but Porphyry's defence proved decisive, so that the Categories was acceptable as compatible with Platonism and an essential introduction to the Neoplatonist curriculum. Porphyry's main commentary on the Categories, however, containing the vital defence, is lost, as is that of his pupil lamblichus. The ideas of these two principal Neoplatonists can be reconstructed, in part, from Dexippus."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Author : Michael Chase
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350089249
Total Pages : 220 pages
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Download or read book Ammonius: Interpretation of Porphyry’s Introduction to Aristotle’s Five Terms written by Michael Chase and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of his six introductions to philosophy, widely used by students in Alexandria, Ammonius' lecture on Porphyry was recorded in writing by his students in the commentary translated here. Along with five other types of introductions (three of which are translated in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle volume Elias and David: Introductions to Philosophy with Olympiodorus: Introduction to Logic) it made Greek philosophy more accessible to other cultures. These introductions became standard in Ammonius' school and included a popular set of five or more definitions of philosophy, some of them drawn from commentaries on quite different works. Ammonius' lecture expounded the most celebrated and discussed previous introduction written by Porphyry 200 years earlier, which was devoted to five main technical terms of Aristotle's logic. Ammonius was sympathetic to Porphyry because they both sought to harmonise the views of Plato and Aristotle with each other, arguing in different ways that the two philosophers did not disagree about the nature of universals. Porphyry's introduction was a hugely influential work for centuries after its composition, and this commentary by Ammonius served to maintain its position at the centre of later schools of philosophy. This English translation of Ammonius' work is the latest volume in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series and makes this philosophical work accessible to a modern readership. The translation is accompanied by an introduction, comprehensive commentary notes, bibliography, glossary of translated terms and a subject index.