15 results for '"Porphyry'

A key figure in the history of Aristotelianism, Porphyry (AD 232/3 - c. 305) was born in Tyre and was a student of Longinus' in Athens and of Plotinus' in Rome. In his commentary on the Categories,...

Questo è uno scritto allegorico, pervenuto in frammenti, in cui il filosofo neoplatonico del IV secolo d.C. interpreta simbolicamente la sacra acqua del fiume Stige in Arcadia, con riferimenti...

Review'...a solid summary and analysis of two often difficult ancient texts.'Lawrence P. Schrenk, Review of Metaphysics, 1989.'...nous éclaire grandement sur des questions avant tout philosophiques...

A delightful anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings celebrating country living—ranging from a philosophy of compost to hymns to the gods of agricultureWhether you farm or garden, live in the...

L'Isagoge est une introduction aux Categories. Porphyre y definit les cinq predicables (genre, espece, difference, propre et accident) et formule ce qui, grace a Boece, deviendra le principal...

La letteratura classica nasconde alcune gemme che, per circostanze varie, non sono conosciute in maniera adeguata. In questo breve scritto, dedicato al commento di alcuni versi dell'"Odissea"...

Syrisch-arabische Biographien Des Aristoteles.--syrische Kommentare Zur Eisagōgē Des Porphyrios. Syrische Texte / Hrsg., übers. Und Untersucht Anton Baumstark. 1. (einziger) Band. Includes...

This edition of St Augustine's The City of God (De Civitate Dei) is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the...

"Aristotle's On Interpretation, the centrepiece of his logic, examines the relationship between conflicting pairs of statements. The first eight chapters, analysed in this volume, explain what...

Iamblichus (245-325), successor to Plotinus and Porphyry, brought a new religiosity to Neoplatonism. His theory of the soul is at the heart of his philosophical system. For Iamblichus, the human soul...

This volume provides the first critical edition of Boethius' De divisione. The importance of Boethius' treatise is twofold: it was widely read in the medieval schools, and it preserves the only known...

Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Categories is the most comprehensive philosophical critique of the work ever written, representing 600 years of criticism. In his Categories, Aristotle divides...