Open AccessThe Dialogue On Aristotle Categories by Porphyry as a Platonic Dialogue
Author(s) -
Оксана Юрьевна Гончарко,
Dmitry N. Goncharko
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
shole
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.191
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 1995-4336
pISSN - 1995-4328
DOI - 10.25205/1995-4328-2019-13-1-83-93
Subject(s) - antique , byzantine architecture , style (visual arts) , relation (database) , context (archaeology) , literature , philosophy , epistemology , art , classics , history , computer science , visual arts , archaeology , database
The paper focuses on interactive dialogue-form strategies in the framework of the late antique Greek and early Byzantine logical traditions. The dialogue by Porphyry On Aristotle Categories is a perfect example of the Neoplatonic approach to build logic in a Plato style. The main protagonistresses of the dialogue are The Question and The Answer, who act as collocutors do in traditional Platonic dialogues. It is proposed to consider the dialogue in the context of three perspectives: in accordance with the tradition of the Platonic dialogue; in the light of Aristotle’s education system; in its relation to the late antique and medieval Greek logical dialogue experiments.