Philoponus: On Aristotle Categories 1–5 with Philoponus: A Treatise Concerning the Whole and the Parts

Philoponus'' On Aristotle Categories 1-5 discusses the nature of universals, preserving the views of Philoponus'' teacher Ammonius, as well as presenting a Neoplatonist interpretation of Aristotle''s Categories. Philoponus treats universals as concepts in the human mind produced by abstracting a form or nature from the material individual in which it has its being.

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