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- catalog abstract ""The Introduction to philosophy, written by Porphyry at the end of the second century AD is the most successful work of its kind ever to have been published. Porphyry's aim was modest: he intended to explain the meaning of five terms, 'genus', 'species', 'difference', 'property', and 'accident' - terms that he took to be important to Aristotelian logic and metaphysics, and hence to philosophy in general. Thus in principle the Introduction is simple and elementary. In face, there are sometimes difficulties and doubts on the surface of the text - and beneath the surface there are occasional profundities. For the work raises, directly or indirectly, a number of perennial philosophical questions; and indeed, the Introduction became, in Boethius's Latin translation, the point of reference for one of the longest-lasting of philosophical disputes - the dispute over the status of 'universals'." "This book contains a new English translation of the Introduction, preceded by a study of the life and works of Porphyry, the purpose and nature of the Introduction, and the history of the text. It is accompanied by a discursive commentary, the primary aim of which is to analyse and assess the philosophical theses and arguments that the Introduction puts forward."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Introduction".
- catalog alternative "Isagoge. English".
- catalog contributor b12887323.
- catalog contributor b12887324.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""The Introduction to philosophy, written by Porphyry at the end of the second century AD is the most successful work of its kind ever to have been published. Porphyry's aim was modest: he intended to explain the meaning of five terms, 'genus', 'species', 'difference', 'property', and 'accident' - terms that he took to be important to Aristotelian logic and metaphysics, and hence to philosophy in general. Thus in principle the Introduction is simple and elementary. In face, there are sometimes difficulties and doubts on the surface of the text - and beneath the surface there are occasional profundities. For the work raises, directly or indirectly, a number of perennial philosophical questions; and indeed, the Introduction became, in Boethius's Latin translation, the point of reference for one of the longest-lasting of philosophical disputes - the dispute over the status of 'universals'." "This book contains a new English translation of the Introduction, preceded by a study of the life and works of Porphyry, the purpose and nature of the Introduction, and the history of the text. It is accompanied by a discursive commentary, the primary aim of which is to analyse and assess the philosophical theses and arguments that the Introduction puts forward."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [372]-384) and indexes.".
- catalog extent "xxvi, 415 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0199246149".
- catalog identifier "9780199246144".
- catalog isPartOf "Clarendon later ancient philosophers".
- catalog isPartOf "Clarendon later ancient philosophers.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng grc".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "186/.4 21".
- catalog subject "B697.I582 E5 2003".
- catalog subject "Catégories (Philosophie)".
- catalog subject "Philosophie Introductions.".
- catalog subject "Philosophy Introductions.".
- catalog subject "Philosophy. fast".
- catalog subject "Porphyre, ca 234-ca 305. Isagogè".
- catalog title "Introduction".
- catalog title "Isagoge. English".
- catalog title "Porphyry Introduction / translated with a commentary by Jonathan Barnes.".
- catalog type "Introductions. fast".
- catalog type "text".