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Porphyry: On Aristotle Categories, Paperback / softback Book

Porphyry: On Aristotle Categories Paperback / softback

Part of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series

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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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