ON ARISTOTLE'S CATEGORIES.
PORPHYRY., Steven K. Strange (Trans).
Language: English
Published by Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1992
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- Title
- ON ARISTOTLE'S CATEGORIES.
- Author
- PORPHYRY., Steven K. Strange (Trans).
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- Cornell University Press, Ithaca
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- 1992
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- Hardcover
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- English
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- 0801428165
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- 9780801428166
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Commentators on Aristotle had disagreed fundamentally over whether the Categories was a work of logic, concerning simple terms or the simple concepts they represent, or a metaphysical work addressing the classification by genera of simple entities or concepts. Approaching the Categories as the first of Aristotle's works in logic, Porphyry adopted an earlier Peripatetic view of the Categories as being concerned principally with terms or linguistic items, which he calls "predicates." He successfully defended the Categories against Plotinus, arguing that while it seemed to attack orthodox Platonism by denying the separation of forms and the ontological priority of the universal, it was in fact entirely compatible with Platonism. Because of Porphyry's intervention, the Categories came to serve as a basic textbook of logic for subsequent Neoplatonist teaching. His commentary influenced the Arabic tradition, and Boethius drew heavily on it as well.
The full text of Porphyry's commentary was lost, but the extant version is available here in Steven K. Strange's new translation. Ancient philosophers, historians of philosophy, classicists, and medievalists will welcome its appearance in English.
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