Citations:philosophy


 * 1969, Victor Ernest Watts (translator), Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius (author), The ,, book I, chapter i, page 36, footnote 1:
 * In the first commentary on Porphyry’s Isagoge or Introduction to the Categories of Aristotle Boethius says there are two kinds of philosophy, practical and speculative or contemplative, the Greek names for which begin with the letters Pi and Theta respectively. The former would seem to include moral philosophy and ethics, the latter theology, metaphysics and natural science or physics. In Porph. Dial. I, Migne, LXIV, 11a.