Abstract
This chapter presents an analysis of Porphyry's Isagoge. It examines the following: aim, usefulness, the reason for the title, genuineness, division into chapters, order, mode of instruction, and the question to which part it belongs. It is necessary to know that there is agreement by some and disagreement concerning the aim. There is agreement about the five terms: genus, species, difference, property, and accident. There is also disagreement concerning the aim of the same writing since some claim that [Porphyry] treats the five terms themselves, demonstrating what use emerges from them and not about how useful they are for other things. Porphyry's Isogage is useful for Aristotle's Categories because in the Categories, Aristotle teaches us about the ten most general genera. The writing here is entitled Porphyry's Introduction by Porphyry the Phoenician, pupil of Plotinus of Lycopolis.Keywords: Aristotle's Categories; Introduction; Lycopolis; Porphyry's Isagoge
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