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Hardcover Porphyry, >On Principles and Matter: A Syriac Version of a Lost Greek Text with an English Translation, Introduction, and Glossaries Book

ISBN: 3110745771

ISBN13: 9783110745771

Porphyry, >On Principles and Matter: A Syriac Version of a Lost Greek Text with an English Translation, Introduction, and Glossaries

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...

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