Porphyry in Syriac
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Edited by:
Yury Arzhanov
About this book
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.
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Yury Arzhanov, University of Salzburg, Austria.
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Frontmatter
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Preface
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Contents
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Some Notes on the Syriac Text of Porphyry’s On Principles and Matter
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Neoplatonic Doxography in Syriac: An Assessment of the First Section of Porphyry’s On Principles and Matter
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Calcidius Syriacus? On Some Implications of the Close Parallels Between Porphyry’s On Principles and Matter and Calcidius’ Commentary on the Timaeus
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Analysis and the Principles of Bodies: The Method of the PM
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Severus in Porphyry’s On Principles and Matter
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The Two Principles between On Principles and Matter and Porphyry’s Other Works
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The Place of Qualities in Porphyry’s Treatise On Principles and Matter and its Relationship to the Philosophy of the School of Bardaiṣan
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Porphyry’s Conception of Matter
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Atticus’ and Longinus’ Doctrine of Principles: A Glimpse into Debates within Plotinus’ School
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Patriarch Timothy’s Letter 43, the New Philosophical Text from Dayr al-Suryān, and the Study of Greek Philosophy in Syriac
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Bibliography
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General Index
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References
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