Ammonius: Interpretation of Porphyry's Introduction to Aristotle's Five Terms
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.Amm…
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- ISBN: 978-1-350-08924-2
- EAN: 9781350089242
- Produktnummer: 32365118
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'829 KB
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Michae Chase is Adjunct Professor of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada, and Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France. His books include three in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series and his research focuses on Ancient Greek Neoplatonism with increasing interest in its relation to medieval Islamic Philosophy. He has also made accessible the work of the French scholar Pierre Hadot through English translations of his work and expositions of his view of Philosophy as a way of life, which was also the view of much of Greek Philosophy, including the commentary tradition.
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