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Dexippus: On Aristotle Categories (the Ancient Commentators On Aristotle) by Dexippus.; John Myles Dillon; Gerald Duckworth & Co is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"Dexippus, a pupil or follower of lamblichus, preserves a crucial moment in the Neoplatonist interpretation of Aristotle. Aristotle's Categories has been attacked by Plotinus, but Porphyry's defence proved decisive, so that the Categories was acceptable as compatible with Platonism and an essential introduction to the Neoplatonist curriculum. Porphyry's main commentary on the Categories, however, containing the vital defence, is lost, as is that of his pupil lamblichus. The ideas of these two principal Neoplatonists can be reconstructed, in part, from Dexippus."--Bloomsbury Publishing Dexippus, a pupil or follower of lamblichus, preserves a crucial moment in the Neoplatonist interpretation of Aristotle. Aristotle's Categories has been attacked by Plotinus, but Porphyry's defence proved decisive, so that the Categories was acceptable as compatible with Platonism and an essential introduction to the Neoplatonist curriculum. Porphyry's main commentary on the Categories, however, containing the vital defence, is lost, as is that of his pupil lamblichus. The ideas of these two principal Neoplatonists can be reconstructed, in part, from Dexippus.

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Author

Dexippus.; John Myles Dillon; Gerald Duckworth & Co

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Bloomsbury Academic

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9781472551788

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Philosophy, Western