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Porphyry in Syriac: The Treatise >On Principles and Matter< and its Place in the Greek, Latin, and Syriac Philosophical Traditions

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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 collect...