Simplicius: On Aristotle Categories 9-15

by Simplicius and Richard Gaskin

Book Overview

Aristotle classified the things in the world into ten categories: substance, quantity, quality, relative, etc. Plotinus, the founder of Neoplatonism, attacked the classification, accepting only these first four categories, rejecting the other six, and adding one of this own: change. He preferred Plato's classification into five kinds which included change.
In this part of his commentary, Simplicius records the controversy on the six categories...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472558510
• ISBN13: 9781472558510
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"