Isagoge et in Aristotelis Categorias commentarium (grec original)
- Language:
- Greek
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Extent:
- ~130,000 words · 599 passages
Cite this work
- APAPorphyry. (n.d.). Isagoge et in Aristotelis Categorias commentarium (grec original). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/porphyry/isagoge-et-in-aristotelis-categorias-commentarium-grec-original
- MLAPorphyry. Isagoge et in Aristotelis Categorias commentarium (grec original). Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/porphyry/isagoge-et-in-aristotelis-categorias-commentarium-grec-original.
- ChicagoPorphyry. Isagoge et in Aristotelis Categorias commentarium (grec original). Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/porphyry/isagoge-et-in-aristotelis-categorias-commentarium-grec-original.
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What it is about
Porphyry's 'Isagoge' in the Greek original, with his commentary on Aristotle's 'Categories': the logic textbook of the whole West for a thousand years.
Context and history
The 'Isagoge' — 'introduction' — is a very short piece written in the third century to prepare the reader of the 'Categories', and it ended up more influential than many major works. It explains the five predicables: genus, species, difference, property and accident. Its real importance comes from one sentence: Porphyry raises the question whether genera and species really exist or exist only in thought, and immediately says he will not discuss it there. Boethius translated it into Latin with that question left open, and out of it came the dispute over universals, which occupied the whole of scholasticism for centuries. Seldom has a declined question given so much work.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
sitis, quae plerumque margines, interdum totas paginas oceupant. eodex ex deterioris familiae exemplari derivatus est. «correctiones, quas ab sed quod debetur viro docto Byzantino, qui Porphyrii de quinque vocibus expositionem ita sibi supplendam esse putabat, ut de rebus in decem Categorias digestis ageret. tamen illud ab H. Dielsio descriptum nobis dignum videbatur, quod hoc loco subiceretur. emendandi autem praesidium insigne translatio latina praebet ab Ant. Gogavino Graviensi confecta (ed. ad caleem Aristoreni Harmonicorum Elementorum Venetiis 1562 p. 162 — 165), qui licet quaedam suo perieulo temptaverit, codicem Monacensi meliorem in usum suum videtur vertisse. huius discerepantias uncinis inclusas adieiam. Πορφυρίον εἰς τὰς δέχα κατηγορίας Νυνὶ δὲ περὶ τῶν πραγμάτων λεχτέον, ἃ δή τινες δέχα χατηγορίας χαλοῦσιν. ὑπέστ -— μὲν γὰρ πρῶτον τὰ πράγματα, ὕστερον δὲ εὑρέϑη τοῖς πράγμασι τὰ ὀνόματα: οὐ γὰρ πρῶτον τὰ ὀνόματα ϑέμενοι ὕστερον τὰ πράγματα εὕρομεν, ἀλλ᾽ ἐπὶ τοῖς ὑποχειμένοις πράγμασι χα ^ ὃ τῆς τῶν ὀνομάτων ϑέσεως ἐδεήϑημεν [appetivimus: ἐπήχϑημεν cod.] δοχεῖ δέ πως τὰ cp Lu ματα xoi παρ᾽ "EXXnst «oi παρὰ βαρβάροις δέκα εἶναι τὸν ἀριϑμιόν, οὐσία, ποιόν, ποσόν, 7 τι, ποῦ, ποτέ, χεῖσϑαι, ἔχειν, ποιεῖν, πάσχειν. ταῦτα δὲ ἐχάλεσαν ἄλλοι μὲν ἄλλως, ᾽Δριστο-τέλης δὲ ὁ Περιπατητιχὸς Δέχα χατηγορίας διὰ τὸ χατά τινος πράγματος ἀγορεύεσϑαι. ἔστι δὲ ἡ μὲν οὐσία κατὰ τὸ τί, τὸ δὲ ποιὸν χατὰ τὴν ἰδέαν, τὸ δὲ ποσὸν χατὰ τὸ πλῆϑος, τὸ δὲ ποῦ χατὰ τὸν τόπον. τὸ δὲ πρός τι χατὰ σύγχρισιν [ad aliquid de habitudine, ubi de loco], τὸ δὲ ποτὲ κατὰ χρόνον, τὸ δὲ χεῖσθαι κατὰ τὴν σχέσιν, τὸ δὲ ἔχειν κατὰ τὴν πρόσληψιν, τὸ δὲ ποιεῖν χατὰ τὸ ἐνεργεῖν, τὸ δὲ πάσχειν χατὰ τὸ ἐνεργεῖσϑαι. ἰδίᾳ μὲν οὖν τούτων ἕχα-στον ἀτελὲς xal χατὰ τὴν φωνὴν καὶ xarà τὸ σημαινόμενον. δι᾿ ἀλλήλων δὲ σημαίνει πάντα xai μετ᾽ ἀλλήλων [verum inter se operas mutuas tradunt et invicem per se omnia significant].…