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- It is clear that Porphyry was a very learned man. He is sometimes claimed as a highly important promulgator of the late ancient branch of Platonism (usually called ‘Neoplatonism’) rather than as an original philosopher.
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Feb 18, 2005 · It is clear that Porphyry was a very learned man. He is sometimes claimed as a highly important promulgator of the late ancient branch of Platonism (usually called ‘Neoplatonism’) rather than as an original philosopher.
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Feb 18, 2005 · It is clear that Porphyry was a very learned man. He is sometimes claimed as a highly important promulgator of the late ancient branch of Platonism (usually called ‘Neoplatonism’) rather than as an original philosopher.
Porphyry of Tyre (/ ˈ p ɔːr f ɪr i /; Greek: Πορφύριος, Porphýrios; c. 234 – c. AD 305) was a Neoplatonic philosopher born in Tyre, Roman Phoenicia [1] during Roman rule. [a] [1] [2] He edited and published The Enneads, the only collection of the work of Plotinus, his teacher.
Porphyry was a Neoplatonist Greek philosopher, important both as an editor and as a biographer of the philosopher Plotinus and for his commentary on Aristotle’s Categories, which set the stage for medieval developments of logic and the problem of universals.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Porphyry remained six years, and became thoroughly attached to his master-a man endowed with an extraordinary understanding and vigorous imagination, who as a teacher of the eclectic philosophy capalle of felicitously unfolding the sublime ideas of Plato had obtained a great reputation.
While still a young man he found his way to Athens, took the Greek name Basileus – a translation of his Phoenician original – and studied under Longinus, who persuaded him to settle on the name Porphyrius, the Greek designation for Tyrian purple.
Porphyry was a neoplatonist, a student of the leading neoplatonist Plotinus. Porphyry's criticism of the Aristotelian Categories raised the profound question of their existential status. The categories are the most general "predicables," the things (the "concepts?") that can be said or predicated of "objects."
