id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 6q182j64r90 Michele Anik Stanbury Metaphysics and Dialectic: Plotinus' Reception of Aristotle as Mediated by Alexander of Aphrodisias 2014 .txt text/plain 356 20 52 In this thesis, I revisit the question of Aristotelian influences on Plotinus' thought, but mediated by Alexander of Aphrodisias. This methodological choice was guided by Porphyry's comments in the Life of Plotinus, to the effect that Aristotle's Metaphysics is condensed in Plotinus' writings, and that Plotinus studied Alexander's commentaries. cache/6q182j64r90.txt txt/6q182j64r90.txt