Enneads

by Plotinus, Porphyry

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)Ancient

91 chapters54h 11mEnglish1918

About this book

The six Enneads (ΕΝΝΕΑΔΕΣ) are the collected writings of the Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus (ΠΛΩΤΙΝΟΣ) arranged by his student Porphyry (ΠΟΡΦΥΡΙΟΣ) into fifty-four books with each Ennead containing nine. The translator Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie arranged these books chronologically rather than according to Porphyry's numeration. This recording is organized according to Porphyry's numeration with Roman numerals indicating the Ennead and Hindu-Arabic numerals indicating the book e.g. VI.9 would be the ninth book of the sixth Ennead. A hyperlinked table of contents at Volume 1 Page 3 of the gutenberg.org text will enable you to jump to the specific Ennead if you wish to read along with the recording. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)

Chapters (90)

1I.1 The Organism and the Self (Vol.4 Pg.1191)

2054

2I.2 Concerning Virtue (Vol.1 Pg.256)

1668

3I.3 Of Dialectic, or the Means of Raising the Soul to the Intelligible World (Vol.1 Pg.269)

940

4I.4 Whether Animals May Be Termed Happy (Vol.4 Pg.1019)

3049

5I.5 Does Happiness Increase With Time? (Vol.3 Pg.684)

820

6I.6 Of Beauty (Vol.1 Pg.40)

2154

7I.7 Of the First Good, and of the Other Goods (Vol.4 Pg.1208)

455

8I.8 Of the Nature and Origin of Evils (Vol.4 Pg.1142)

3143

9I.9 Of Suicide (Vol.1 Pg.243)

207

10II.1 Of the Heaven (Vol.3 Pg.813)

1950

11II.2 About the Movement of the Heavens (Vol.1 Pg.227)

855

12II.3 Whether Astrology is of any Value (Vol.4 Pg.1165)

3216

13II.4 Of Matter (Vol.1 Pg.197)

3318

14II.5 Of the Aristotelian Distinction Between Actuality and Potentiality (Vol.2 Pg.341)

1239

15II.6 Of Essence and Being (Vol.1 Pg.245)

886

16II.7 About Mixture to the Point of Total Penetration (Vol.3 Pg.691)

788

17II.8 Of Sight; or of Why Distant Objects Seem Small (Vol.3 Pg.680)

481

18II.9a That the Creator and the World are Not Evil (Vol.2 Pg.599)

2863

19II.9b Against the Gnostics (Vol.2 Pg.620)

2501

20III.1 Concerning Fate (Vol.1 Pg.86)

1912

21III.2a Of Providence (Vol.4 Pg.1042)

2476

22III.2b Of Providence (Vol.4 Pg.1059)

2265

23III.3 Continuation of That on Providence (Vol.4 Pg.1077)

1880

24III.4 Of Our Individual Guardian (Vol.1 Pg.233)

1432

25III.5 Of Love, or "Eros" (Vol.4 Pg.1122)

2646

26III.6a Of the Impassibility of Incorporeal Entities (Vol.2 Pg.350)

2769

27III.6b Soul and Matter (Vol.2 Pg.368)

2606

28III.7a Of Eternity (Vol.3 Pg.985)

1754

29III.7b Of Time (Vol.3 Pg.996)

2786

30III.8 Of Nature, Contemplation and Unity (Vol.2 Pg.531)

3071

31III.9 Fragments About the Soul, the Intelligence, and the Good (Vol.1 Pg.220)

1024

32IV.1 Of the Being of the Soul (Vol.1 Pg.100)

189

33IV.2 How the Soul Mediates Between Indivisible and Divisible Essence (Vol.1 Pg.276)

981

34IV.3a Are Not All Souls Parts or Emanations of a Single Soul? (Vol.2 Pg.387)

2441

35IV.3b Why and How do Souls Descend into Bodies? (Vol.2 Pg.403)

2056

36IV.3c Does the Soul Employ Discursive Reason While Discarnate? (Vol.2 Pg.416)

3285

37IV.4a Questions About the Soul (Vol.2 Pg.441)

3626

38IV.4b Questions About the Soul (Vol.2 Pg.465)

3897

39IV.4c Questions About the Soul (Vol.2 Pg.490)

3626

40IV.5 About the Process of Vision and Hearing (Vol.2 Pg.514)

2656

41IV.6 Of Sensation and Memory (Vol.3 Pg.829)

1018

42IV.7a Of the Immortality of the Soul (Vol.1 Pg.56)

2842

43IV.7b Of the Immortality of the Soul (Vol.1 Pg.74)

1811

44IV.8 On the Descent of the Soul Into the Body (Vol.1 Pg.119)

2259

45IV.9 Whether All Souls Form a Single One (Vol.1 Pg.139)

1224

46V.1 The Three Principal Hypostases, or Forms of Existence (Vol.1 Pg.173)

3130

47V.2 Of Generation, and of the Order of things that Rank Next After the First (Vol.1 Pg.193)

518

48V.3a The Self-Consciousnesses, and What is Above Them (Vol.4 Pg.1090)

2589

49V.3b The Self-Consciousnesses, and What is Above Them (Vol.4 Pg.1106)

2447

50V.4 How What is After the First Proceeds Therefrom; of the One (Vol.1 Pg.134)

747

51V.5 That Intelligible Entities Are Not External to the Intelligence of the Good (Vol.2 Pg.575)

3625

52V.6 The Superessential Principle Does Not Think (Vol.2 Pg.333)

1218

53V.7 Do Ideas of Individuals Exist (Vol.1 Pg.251)

687

54V.8 Concerning Intelligible Beauty (Vol.2 Pg.551)

3808

55V.9 Of Intelligence, Ideas and Essence (Vol.1 Pg.102)

2528

56VI.1a Of the Ten Aristotelian Categories (Vol.3 Pg.837)

3709

57VI.1b Of the Ten Aristotelian Categories (Vol.3 Pg.860)

2899

58VI.1c Criticism of the Stoic Categories (Vol.3 Pg.878)

1747

59VI.2a The Categories of Plotinos (Vol.3 Pg.891)

3256

60VI.2b The Categories of Plotinos (Vol.3 Pg.911)

3505

61VI.3a Plotinos's Own Sense-Categories (Vol.3 Pg.933)

2550

62VI.3b Plotinos's Own Sense-Categories (Vol.3 Pg.948)

2997

63VI.3c Plotinos's Own Sense-Categories (Vol.3 Pg.967)

2674

64VI.4a The One Identical Essence is Everywhere Entirely Present (Vol.2 Pg.285)

2440

65VI.4b The One Identical Essence is Everywhere Entirely Present (Vol.2 Pg.300)

2121

66VI.5 The One Identical Essence is Everywhere Entirely Present (Vol.2 Pg.314)

3069

67VI.6a Of Numbers (Vol.3 Pg.643)

2912

68VI.6b Of Numbers (Vol.3 Pg.661)

2908

69VI.7a How Ideas Multiply (Vol.3 Pg.697)

2383

70VI.7b How Ideas Multiply (Vol.3 Pg.712)

2274

71VI.7c A Study of the Good (Vol.3 Pg.726)

3712

72VI.7d A Study of the Good (Vol.3 Pg. 749)

3671

73VI.8a Of the Will of the One (Vol.3 Pg.773)

3118

74VI.8b Of the Will of the One (Vol.3 Pg.793)

2988

75VI.9a Of the Good and the One (Vol.1 Pg.147)

2302

76VI.9b Of the Good and the One (Vol.1 Pg.161)

1688

77Life of Plotinos by Porphyry I-VII (Vol.1 Pg.5)

1734

78Life of Plotinos by Porphyry VIII-XVIII (Vol.1 Pg.15)

1560

79Life of Plotinos by Porphyry XIX-XXIV (Vol.1 Pg.25)

2103

80Life of Plotinos by Eunapius & Suidas (Vol.1 Pg.39)

149

81Porphyry's Commentary - Part 1 (Vol.4 Pg.1215)

2830

82Porphyry's Commentary - Part 2 (Vol.4 Pg.1233)

3353

83Psychological Fragments (Vol.4 Pg. 1254)

1930

84PS1 Development in the Teachings of Plotinos (Vol.4 Pg.1269)

3029

85PS2 Platonism: Significance, Progress, and Results (Vol.4 Pg. 1288)

1185

86PS3 Plotinos's View of Matter (Vol.4 Pg.1296)

596

87PS4 Plotinos's Creation of the Trinity (Vol.4 Pg.1300)

1131

88PS5 Resemblances to Christianity (Vol.4 Pg.1307)

828

89PS6 Plotinos's Indebtedness to Numenius (Vol.4 Pg. 1313)

2017

90PS7 Value of Plotinos (Vol.4 Pg.1327)

1122

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