Riccardo Chiaradonna

This article is a discussion of E. K. Emilsson, _Plotinus_ (London and New York, 2017). Three themes are selected: causation; the holistic account of intelligible being; the status of matter and body. The discussion ends with some remarks about Emilsson’s approach to Plotinus’ philosophy. Emilsson’s account of Plotinus’ causation is based on the transmission model, what Emilsson calls ‘the principle of prior possession’. Here it is argued that the transmission model requires qualifications in order to be applied to Plotinus’ account of causation. The section on Plotinus’ holism focuses on two analogies: that of science and its theorems and that of craftsmanship. The section on matter and body addresses the issue of Plotinus’ dualism as different from Cartesian dualism. The final remarks assess Emilsson’s philosophical approach to Plotinus, his use of contemporary philosophical notions, and the problem of Plotinus’ philosophical mysticism.

This article is a preliminary edition — introduction, text, translation, commentary — of a previously unknown commentary on Aristotle’s _Categories_, recently discovered in the Archimedes Palimpsest. The two lemmas covered (both incompletely) in the fourteen surviving pages are 1a20–b15, concerning the distinction between ‘said of a subject’ and ‘in a subject’, and 1b16–24, where Aristotle maintains that different genera are divided by different differentiae. By extrapolating from this sample, the commentary can be inferred to have been considerably longer than the longest _Categories_ commentary to survive intact, that of Simplicius. On this and other grounds, we argue that it is probably a fragment of Porphyry’s monumental lost commentary, the _Ad Gedalium_. A prominent feature of the new commentary is its extensive concentration on resolving puzzles raised against the _Categories_. Some of the material is completely absent from the remainder of the surviving _Categories_ tradition. The earlier commentators and critics cited by name in it are Andronicus, Boethus, Nicostratus and Herminus.

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