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Porphyry

Also known as Porphyry of Tyre, Malchus

3rd-century Greek Neoplatonist philosopher

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Porphyry was a Greek philosopher from the 3rd century who developed and taught Neoplatonism, an influential school of thought that emphasized spiritual contemplation and the pursuit of unity with a transcendent reality. His ideas shaped Western philosophy and theology for centuries and remain studied today for their contributions to metaphysics and religious thought.

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

On Abstinence from Animal Food
· 1999 · cited 10x
CXIII.—Polymorphism of arsenic
· 1922 · cited 3x
On the Life of Plotinus and the Order of His Books
· 1969 · cited 2x
王安镇火山-侵入岩成因：来自全岩地球化学和Sr-Nd-Pb同位素的证据
· 2026
Porphyry's Launching-Points to the Realm of Mind: An Introduction to the Neoplatonic Philosophy of Plotinus
· 1990

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Quotes

“Every body is in place; but nothing essentially incorporeal, or any thing of this kind, has any locality.”
“Soul, indeed, is a certain medium between an impartible essence, and an essence which is divisible about bodies. But intellect is an impartible essence alone. And qualities and material forms are divisible about bodies. Not everything which acts on another, effects that which it does effect by approximation and contact; but those natures which effect any thing by approximation and contact, use approximation accidentally.”
“Incorporeal hypostases, in descending, are distributed into parts, and multiplied about individuals with a diminution of power; but when they ascend by their energies beyond bodies, they become united, and proceed into a simultaneous subsistence, through exuberance of power.”
“The fleshless diet contributes to health and to a suitable endurance of hard work in philosophy.”
“I think that when friendship and perception of kinship ruled everything, no one killed any creature, because people thought the other animals were related to them.”
“Every good thing is gentle and consistent, progressing in good order and not going beyond what is right.”

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Commons category: Porphyry (philosopher)
date of death: 0301-00-00
date of birth: 0233-00-00
birth name: Malchus
name in native language: Πορφύριος
P12749: Magnus Hirschfeld
Commons Creator page: Porphyry

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Porphyry, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Porphyrii Institutio. Aristotelis categoriae. Eiusdem......., id is from interpretaione Liber. Analyticcon priorum eiusdem.i partitionum priorum Lib. II. Partitionum posteriorum, siue Partiatis scientiae Lib. II

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Porphyrii Institutio. Aristotelis categoriae

Porphyrii introductio in Apotelesmata Ptolemaei

Porphyrii Introductio

Porphyrii Introductio in decem praedicamenta Aristotelis

Porphyrii Introductio

Porphyrius De Porinentia ab animantibus

Porphyrii philosophi pythagorrici de non necandis ad epulandum animantibus libri IIII [Texto impreso]; eiusdem... sententiae ducentes ad inteligentiam rerum quae mente noscuntur

Porphyriu Peri tu en tē Odysseia tōn nymphōn antru = De antro Nympharum

De vita Pythagorae

Porphyrii Philosophi Ad Marcellam :Accedit Eiusdem Porphyrii Poëticum Fragmentum

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Porphyry (/ˈpɔːrfɪri/; Koine Greek: Πορφύριος, romanized: Porphýrios; c. 234 – c. AD 305) was a Phoenician Neoplatonic philosopher born in Tyre, Roman Phoenicia during Roman rule. He edited and published the Enneads, the only collection of the work of Plotinus, his teacher.

He wrote original works in the Greek language on a wide variety of topics, ranging from music theory to Homer to vegetarianism. His Isagoge or Introduction, an introduction to logic and philosophy, was the standard textbook on logic throughout the Middle Ages in its Latin and Arabic translations. Porphyry was, and still is, also well known for his anti-Christian polemics. Through works such as Philosophy from Oracles and Against the Christians (which was banned by Constantine the Great), he was involved in a controversy with early Christians.