Porphyry On Principles And Matter

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Porphyry On Principles And Matter

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Author : Yury Arzhanov
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-08-02

Porphyry On Principles And Matter written by Yury Arzhanov and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-02 with Philosophy categories.

The Syriac treatise published in the present volume is in many respects a unique text. Though it has been preserved anonymously, there remains little doubt that it belongs to Porphyry of Tyre. Accordingly, it enlarges our knowledge of the views of the most famous disciple of Plotinus. The text is an important witness to Platonist discussions on First Principles and on Plato’s concept of Prime Matter in the Timaeus. It contains extensive quotations from Atticus, Severus, and Boethus. This text thus provides us with new textual witnesses to these philosophers, whose legacy remains very poorly attested and little known. Additionally, the treatise is a rare example of a Platonist work preserved in the Syriac language. The Syriac reception of Plato and Platonic teachings has left rather sparse textual traces, and the question of what precisely Syriac Christians knew about Plato and his philosophy remains a debated issue. The treatise provides evidence for the close acquaintance of Syriac scholars with Platonic cosmology and with philosophical commentaries on Plato’s Timaeus.

Porphyry In Syriac

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Author : Yury Arzhanov
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2024-07-01

Porphyry In Syriac written by Yury Arzhanov and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-01 with Philosophy categories.

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 of Plotinus but also serves as an important witness to Platonist discussions of first principles and of Plato’s concept of prime matter in the Timaeus. The aim of the present volume of collected studies is two-fold. On the one hand, it brings up an update to the state of the art of our knowledge of Porphyry’s philosophy and of his role in the transmission of the earlier philosophical materials, especially those of the Middle Platonic works. On the other hand, it focuses on the questions of the reception of Porphyry’s legacy, both by Greek and Latin Platonists (with special interest in Calcidius) and by Christian Oriental authors (with particular focus on the Syriac tradition). The primary audience of the book will be scholars and graduate students in ancient and late ancient Greek philosophy, Orientalists and scholars interested in the Christian reception of Greek philosophy, in the studies of the Christian Orient, as well as in Greek, Latin, and Syriac philology.

Basil Of Caesarea As Exegete

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Author : Volker Henning Drecoll
language : en
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Release Date : 2025-06-18

Basil Of Caesarea As Exegete written by Volker Henning Drecoll and has been published by Mohr Siebeck this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-06-18 with categories.

Porphyry In Syriac

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Author : Yury Arzhanov
language : en
Publisher: de Gruyter
Release Date : 2024

Porphyry In Syriac written by Yury Arzhanov and has been published by de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with History categories.

On Principles and Matter, a previously unknown treatise by Porphyry of Tyre only preserved in a Syriac translation, was finally made available to historians of philosophy in 2021. The studies collected in the present volume deal with this treatise,

Gregory Of Nyssa On The Hexaemeron

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language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2025-03-25

Gregory Of Nyssa On The Hexaemeron written by and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-03-25 with Religion categories.

This book presents Gregory of Nyssa's On the Six Days of Creation (In Hexaemeron) as a specimen of Early Christian philosophy. It comprises Gregory of Nyssa's text in its Greek original accompanied by a new English translation, and seven accompanying essays by international specialists from diverse backgrounds. Each essay focuses on a section of the text and the arising philosophical issues. The essays complement each other in offering multiple perspectives on how Gregory's text may be approached philosophically and positioned in relation to other, more or less contiguous, philosophical theories, including the early Greeks Anaxagoras and Empedocles, Aristotle, and the Stoics. Rather than presenting a definite and exhaustive state of the art study of Gregory's text, this volume aims to open new pathways for research into In Hexaemeron.

Authority And Authoritative Texts In The Platonist Tradition

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Author : Michael Erler
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-03-04

Authority And Authoritative Texts In The Platonist Tradition written by Michael Erler and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-04 with Philosophy categories.

Sheds light on the meaning, import and philosophical outlook of the notion of authority throughout the Platonist tradition.

The Philosophy Of The Few Against The Christians

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Author : Pier Franco Beatrice
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-11-13

The Philosophy Of The Few Against The Christians written by Pier Franco Beatrice and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-13 with Philosophy categories.

This book gives us a new perspective on the Philosophy according to the Chaldean Oracles by Porphyry of Tyre (ca. 232/305 CE), demonstrating that much of what we thought we knew about this work and its fragments is mistaken. Here, for the first time, the attempt is made at reconstructing the original text by following the vicissitudes of its reception and transmission from Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance up to modern scholarship. The extensive and painstaking study of the surviving fragments leads to the radically innovative conclusion that this encyclopedic treatise, written by Porphyry in the last decades of the 3rd century CE, consisted of fifteen books organized in various sections. After an initial discussion of the nature of theurgy and of its subordinate role with respect to philosophy, Porphyry describes the entire history of Greek philosophy from Homer up to his own teacher Plotinus, to then go on to present “introductions” to the seven encyclical disciplines whose study is required for the comprehension of theosophy, that is, the esoteric speculation on the three parts of philosophy: anthropology-ethics, physics, and metaphysics-theology. By harmonizing the teachings of Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and the Chaldean Oracles, Porphyry intends to present the complete and definitive philosophic system, with the aim of showing the universal way for the liberation of the souls of initiates and of contextually fighting the final battle of the Greco-Roman civilization against Christianity.

Neoplatonic Demons And Angels

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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-07-10

Neoplatonic Demons And Angels written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-10 with Philosophy categories.

Neoplatonic Demons and Angels is a collection of eleven studies which examine, in chronological order, the place reserved for angels and demons not only by the main Neoplatonic philosophers (Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Proclus), but also in Gnosticism, the Chaldaean Oracles, Christian Neoplatonism, especially by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. This volume originates from a panel held at the 2014 ISNS meeting in Lisbon, but is supplemented by a number of invited papers.

An Alexandrian Platonist Against Dualism

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Author : P. W. van der Horst
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2024-09-09

An Alexandrian Platonist Against Dualism written by P. W. van der Horst and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-09 with Religion categories.

Porphyry S Launching Points To The Realm Of Mind

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Author : Porphyry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988

Porphyry S Launching Points To The Realm Of Mind written by Porphyry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Philosophy categories.