Porphyry in Syriac : : The Treatise ›On Principles and Matter‹ and its Place in the Greek, Latin, and Syriac Philosophical Traditions / / ed. by Yury Arzhanov.
In 2021, a previously unknown treatise by Porphyry of Tyre, which has been preserved in a Syriac translation, was made available to historians of philosophy: Porphyry, On Principles and Matter (De Gruyter, 2021). This text not only enlarges our knowledge of the legacy of the most prominent disciple...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2024] ©2024 |
| Year of Publication: | 2024 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Philosophy and Sciences in the Christian Orient ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (X, 198 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Some Notes on the Syriac Text of Porphyry’s On Principles and Matter
- Neoplatonic Doxography in Syriac: An Assessment of the First Section of Porphyry’s On Principles and Matter
- Calcidius Syriacus? On Some Implications of the Close Parallels Between Porphyry’s On Principles and Matter and Calcidius’ Commentary on the Timaeus
- Analysis and the Principles of Bodies: The Method of the PM
- Severus in Porphyry’s On Principles and Matter
- The Two Principles between On Principles and Matter and Porphyry’s Other Works
- The Place of Qualities in Porphyry’s Treatise On Principles and Matter and its Relationship to the Philosophy of the School of Bardaiṣan
- Porphyry’s Conception of Matter
- Atticus’ and Longinus’ Doctrine of Principles: A Glimpse into Debates within Plotinus’ School
- Patriarch Timothy’s Letter 43, the New Philosophical Text from Dayr al-Suryān, and the Study of Greek Philosophy in Syriac
- Bibliography
- General Index
- References