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Ammonius: Interpretation of Porphyry's Introduction to Aristotle's Five Terms (Hardcover)
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Ammonius: Interpretation of Porphyry's Introduction to Aristotle's Five Terms (Hardcover)
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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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. Ammonius' lecture expounded the most celebrated and
discussed previous introduction written by Porphyry 200 years
earlier, which was devoted to five main technical terms of
Aristotle's logic. Ammonius was sympathetic to Porphyry because
they both sought to harmonise the views of Plato and Aristotle with
each other, arguing in different ways that the two philosophers did
not disagree about the nature of universals. Porphyry's
introduction was a hugely influential work for centuries after its
composition, and this commentary by Ammonius served to maintain its
position at the centre of later schools of philosophy. This English
translation of Ammonius' work is the latest volume in the Ancient
Commentators on Aristotle series and makes this philosophical work
accessible to a modern readership. The translation is accompanied
by an introduction, comprehensive commentary notes, bibliography,
glossary of translated terms and a subject index.
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