普菲力欧斯简介 Porphyry Introduction 英文原版 Jonathan Barnes 

基本信息

Format Paperback | 444 pages

Dimensions 138 x 215 x 25mm | 620g

Publication date 13 Apr 2006

Publisher Oxford University Press

Language English

ISBN10 0199288690

ISBN13 9780199288694

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

波菲利在公元二世纪末写的《哲学导论》是有史以来成功的同类作品。它被翻译成了令人尊敬的语言，在一千年半的时间里，每一个学习哲学的学生都把它作为他学习这个学科的开篇文章来阅读。波菲利的目的很简单：他打算解释五个术语的含义，即 "属"、"种"、"差"、"属性 "和 "意外"--他认为这些术语对亚里士多德的逻辑和形而上学很重要，因而对一般的哲学都很重要。因此，原则上，《导论》是简单和基本的。事实上，在文本的表面上有时会有困难和疑惑--在表面之下，经常会有深度或深刻的东西。这部作品直接或间接地提出了一些多年的哲学问题。此外，在波爱修的拉丁文译本中，《导论》成为持久的哲学争论之一的参考点--关于 "普遍性 "地位的争论。

本书包含《导论》的新英译本，之前对波菲利的生活和作品、《导论》的目的和性质以及文本的历史进行了研究。书中还附有论述性评论，其主要目的是分析和评估《导论》所提出的哲学论点和论据。(但也有许多更倾向于语言学或历史的注释）。

二十世纪远离了亚里士多德的逻辑，《导论》在教学大纲中失去了它的地位。巴恩斯并没有争辩说应该把它放回原来的位置；但他的评注--第一个以英语出版的，也是一个世纪以来最完整的评注--表明这个老人还在流血。

这套丛书以我们熟悉的克拉伦登亚里士多德和克拉伦登柏拉图系列为蓝本，旨在鼓励哲学家和哲学专业学生探索后期古代哲学的肥沃土壤。这些文本的年代从公元前一世纪到公元五世纪不等，并将涵盖哲学的所有部分和所有流派。每一卷都包含一个实质性的介绍，一个英文翻译，以及对文本的哲学主张和论点的批评性评论。翻译的主要目的是准确和忠实；但它们也是可读的，并附有关于影响哲学解释的文本问题的说明。本书不假定有希腊语或拉丁语的知识。

The Introduction to philosophy written by Porphyry at the end of the second century AD is the most successful work of its kind ever to have been published. It was translated into most respectable languages, and for a millennium and a half every student of philosophy read it as his first text in the subject. Porphyry's aim was modest: he intended to explain the meaning of five terms, 'genus', 'species', 'difference', 'property', and 'accident' - terms which he took to be important to Aristotelian logic and metaphysics, and hence to philosophy in general. Thus in principle the Introduction is simple and elementary. In fact, there are sometimes difficulties and doubts on the surface of the text - and beneath the surface there are frequent depths or profundities. The work raises, directly or indirectly, a number of perennial philosophical questions. In addition, the Introduction became, in Boethius's Latin translation, the point of reference for one of the longest-lasting of philosophical disputes - the dispute over the status of 'universals'.

This book contains a new English translation of the Introduction, preceded by a study of the life and works of Porphyry, the purpose and nature of the Introduction, and the history of the text. It is accompanied by a discursive commentary the primary aim of which is to analyse and assess the philosophical theses and arguments which the Introduction puts forward. (But there are also numerous notes of a more philological or historical turn.)

The twentieth century turned away from Aristotelian logic, and the Introduction lost its position on the syllabus. Barnes does not argue that it should be put back in its old place; but his commentary - the first to be published in English, and the fullest to be published for a century - suggests that there is blood in the old man yet.

CLARENDON LATER ANCIENT PHILOSOPHERS

General Editors: Jonathan Barnes and A. A. Long

This series, which is modelled on the familiar Clarendon Aristotle and Clarendon Plato series, is designed to encourage philosophers and students of philosophy to explore the fertile terrain of later ancient philosophy. The texts range in date from the first century BC to the fifth century AD, and will cover all the parts and all the schools of philosophy. Each volume contains a substantial introduction, an English translation, and a critical commentary on the philosophical claims and arguments

of the text. The translations aim primarily at accuracy and fidelity; but they are also readable and accompanied by notes on textual problems that affect the philosophical interpretation. No knowledge of Greek or Latin is assumed.

目录

INTRODUCTION ; TRANSLATION ; COMMENTARY

作者简介

乔纳森-巴恩斯是巴黎索邦大学（Paris IV）的古代哲学教授，此前曾在牛津和日内瓦担任教授。

Jonathan Barnes is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), having previously been Professor at Oxford and Geneva.