Auteur: Barrie Fleet

Plotinus was much exercised by Plato’s doctrines of the soul. In this treatise, at chapter 1 line 27, he talks of "the divine Plato, who has said in many places in his works many noble things ab …

Ennead IV.7 is a very early treatise (second according to Porphyry’s chronological table), and unlike the many treatises devoted to attempts at untangling various issues Plotinus found problematic in …

In Categories chapters 7 and 8 Aristotle considers his third and fourth categories – those of Relative and Quality. Critics of Aristotle had suggested for each of the non-substance categories that th …

Book 2 of the Physics is arguably the best introduction to Aristotle”s ideas, as well as being the most interesting and representative book in the whole of his corpus. It defines nature and distingu …

Chapters 5 and 6 of Aristotle”s Categories describe his first two categories, Substance and Quantity. It is usually taken that Plotinus attacked Aristotle”s Categories, but that Porphyry and Iambli …