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Simplicius: On Aristotle Categories 9-15 (Paperback, Nippod)
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Simplicius: On Aristotle Categories 9-15 (Paperback, Nippod)
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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Aristotle classified the things in the world into ten categories:
substance, quantity, quality, relative, and six others. Plotinus,
the founder of Neoplatonism, attacked the classification, accepting
only these first four categories, rejecting the other six, and
adding one of this own: change. He preferred Plato's classification
into five kinds which included change. In this part of his
commentary, Simplicius records the controversy on the six
categories which Plotinus rejected: acting, being acted upon, being
in a position, when, where, and having on. Plotinus' pupil and
editor, Porphyry, defended all six categories as applicable to the
physical world, even if not to the world of Platonic Forms to which
Platonist studies must eventually progress. Porphyry's pupil,
lamblichus, went further: taken in a suitable sense, Aristotle's
categories apply also to the world of Forms, although they require
Pythagorean reinterpretation. Simplicius may be closer to Porphyry
that to lamblichus, and indeed Porphyry's defence established
Aristotle's categories once and for all in Western thought. But the
probing controversy of this period none the less revealed more
effectively than any discussion of modern times the profound
difficulties in Aristotle's categorical scheme.
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