Porphyry: On Aristotle Categories (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle)
by: [Porphyry]; Steven K. Strange (editor)

Softcover. NY, Bloomsbury , reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 185 pages. 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. Clean, bright copy.