The Neo-Platonists; a Study in the History of Hellenism
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Enn. vi. 7, 2.
VI] OF PL0TI2SrFS 101 conceives the highest kind of knowledge not as mathematical in form but as "dialectical." By "dialectic" he means, not a purely formal method, a mere "organon," but a method of which the use, when once attained, gives along with the form of thought its content, which is true being^. Before the learner can reach this stage, he must be disciplined in the other branches of liberal science. As with Plato, dialectic is the crown of a philosophical education. Nor ...does Plotinus alto- gether neglect the logical topics he regards as subsidiary to this. At the beginning of the sixth Ennead is placed a con- siderable treatise^ in which he criticises first the Stoic and then the Aristotelian categories, and goes on to expound a scheme of his own. This scheme, as Zeller remarks, has not the same importance for his system as those of Aristotle and of the Stoics for theirs. Porphyry, in his larger commentary on the Categories, defended Aristotle's treatment against the objections of tlotinus, and thenceforth the Aristotelian cate- gories maintained their authority in the school'.
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Enn. vi. 7, 2.
VI] OF PL0TI2SrFS 101 conceives the highest kind of knowledge not as mathematical in form but as "dialectical." By "dialectic" he means, not a purely formal method, a mere "organon," but a method of which the use, when once attained, gives along with the form of thought its content, which is true being^. Before the learner can reach this stage, he must be disciplined in the other branches of liberal science. As with Plato, dialectic is the crown of a philosophical education. Nor ...does Plotinus alto- gether neglect the logical topics he regards as subsidiary to this. At the beginning of the sixth Ennead is placed a con- siderable treatise^ in which he criticises first the Stoic and then the Aristotelian categories, and goes on to expound a scheme of his own. This scheme, as Zeller remarks, has not the same importance for his system as those of Aristotle and of the Stoics for theirs. Porphyry, in his larger commentary on the Categories, defended Aristotle's treatment against the objections of tlotinus, and thenceforth the Aristotelian cate- gories maintained their authority in the school'.
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