Porphyry (filosofer)

Porphyry o Tyre
Porphyry o Tyre
	Porphire Sophiste, in a French 16t-century engravin
Born	c. 234 AD; Tyre, Roman Empire
Died	c. 305 AD; Roum, Roman Empire
Notable wirk(s)	Leet Introduction tae Categories (Εἰσαγωγή; Introductio in Praedicamenta or Isagoge et in Aristotelis Categorias commentarium), The Life o Pythagoras (Πυθαγόρου βίος; Vita Pythagorae), On Abstinence frae Ainimal Fuid (Περὶ ἀποχῆς ἐμψύχων; De Abstinentia ab Esu Animalium), On the Cave o the Nymphs (Περὶ τοῦ ἐν Ὀδυσσείᾳ τῶν Νυμφῶν Ἄντρου; De Antro Nympharum), Introduction tae Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos (Εἰσαγωγὴ εἰς τὴν Ἀποτελεσματικὴν τοῦ Πτολεμαίου), Commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics (Εἰς τὰ ἁρμονικὰ Πτολεμαίου ὑπόμνημα), On the Life o Plotinus an the Arrangement o his Wirk (Περὶ τοῦ Πλωτίνου βίου καὶ τῆς τάξεως τῶν βιβλίων αὐτοῦ; Vita Plotini), Stairtin-pynts leadin tae the intelligibles (Ἀφορμαὶ πρὸς τὰ νοητά; Sententiae ad intelligibilia ducentes), Filosofie frae Oracles (Περὶ τῆς ἐκ λογίων φιλοσοφίας; De Philosophia ex Oraculis Haurienda), Against the Christians (Κατὰ Χριστιανῶν; Adversus Christianos);
Era	Auncient filosofie
Region	Wastren filosofie
Schuil	Neoplatonism
	Influences Plotinus, Middle Platonism, Plato, Aristotle;
	Influenced Sossianus Hierocles, Boethius, Scholasticism an Arabic Aristotelianism (throu the Isagoge), later Neoplatonism;

Porphyry o Tyre (Greek: Πορφύριος, Porphyrios, Arabic: Furfūriyūs; c. 234 – c. 305 AD) wis a Neoplatonic filosofer wha wis born in Tyre, in the Roman Empire.^[1]

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↑ For Porphyry's dates, place o birth an filosofical schuil, see Barker 2003. Sarton 1936, pp. 429-430, identifies Transjordania as Porphyry's place o birth.

[1] For Porphyry's dates, place o birth an filosofical schuil, see Barker 2003. Sarton 1936, pp. 429-430, identifies Transjordania as Porphyry's place o birth.

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Porphyry o Tyre
Porphire Sophiste, in a French 16t-century engravin
Born	c. 234 AD Tyre, Roman Empire
Died	c. 305 AD Roum, Roman Empire
Notable wirk(s)	Leet Introduction tae Categories (Εἰσαγωγή; Introductio in Praedicamenta or Isagoge et in Aristotelis Categorias commentarium), The Life o Pythagoras (Πυθαγόρου βίος; Vita Pythagorae), On Abstinence frae Ainimal Fuid (Περὶ ἀποχῆς ἐμψύχων; De Abstinentia ab Esu Animalium), On the Cave o the Nymphs (Περὶ τοῦ ἐν Ὀδυσσείᾳ τῶν Νυμφῶν Ἄντρου; De Antro Nympharum), Introduction tae Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos (Εἰσαγωγὴ εἰς τὴν Ἀποτελεσματικὴν τοῦ Πτολεμαίου), Commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics (Εἰς τὰ ἁρμονικὰ Πτολεμαίου ὑπόμνημα), On the Life o Plotinus an the Arrangement o his Wirk (Περὶ τοῦ Πλωτίνου βίου καὶ τῆς τάξεως τῶν βιβλίων αὐτοῦ; Vita Plotini), Stairtin-pynts leadin tae the intelligibles (Ἀφορμαὶ πρὸς τὰ νοητά; Sententiae ad intelligibilia ducentes), Filosofie frae Oracles (Περὶ τῆς ἐκ λογίων φιλοσοφίας; De Philosophia ex Oraculis Haurienda), Against the Christians (Κατὰ Χριστιανῶν; Adversus Christianos)

Era	Auncient filosofie
Region	Wastren filosofie
Schuil	Neoplatonism
Influences Plotinus, Middle Platonism, Plato, Aristotle
Influenced Sossianus Hierocles, Boethius, Scholasticism an Arabic Aristotelianism (throu the Isagoge), later Neoplatonism