The Enneads / Plotinus ; translated by Stephen MacKenna.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Latin Publication details: London : Faber and Faber, 1956.Edition: 2d ed. rev. / by B. S. Page, with a foreword by E. R. Dodds and an introduction by Paul HenryDescription: li, 635 p. ; 26 cmUniform titles:
  • Enneads. English
Contained works:
  • Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305. On the life of Plotinus and the arrangement of his work
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 186
LOC classification:
  • B693.E53 M3 1956
Contents:
Foreword: by E.R. Dodds--Preface to the second edition--Extracts from the explanatory matter in the first edition--Introduction: Plotinus' place in the history of thought: by Paul Henry--Porphyry's Life of Plotinus--The first Ennead--1. The animate and the man--2. The virtues--3. Dialectic--4. Happiness--5. Happiness and extension of time--6. Beauty--7. The primal good and secondary forms of good--8. The nature and source of evil--9. The reasoned dismissal--The second Ennead--1. The heavenly system--2. The heavenly circuit--3. Are the stars causes?--4. Matter--5. Potentiality and actuality--6. Quality--7. Complete transfusion--8. Why distant objects appear small--9. Against the Gnostics, or, Against those that affirm the creator of the cosmos and the cosmos itself to be evil--The third Ennead--1. Fate--2. Providence (1)--3. Providence (2)--4. Our tutelary spirit--5. Love--6. The impassivity of the unembodied--7. Time and eternity--8. Nature, contemplation, and the one--9. Detached considerations.
The fourth Ennead--1. On the essence of the soul (1)--2. On the essence of the soul (2)--3. Problems of the soul (1)--4. Problems of the soul (2)--5. Problems of the soul (3), or, On sight--6. Perception and memory--7. The immortality of the soul--8. The soul's descent into body--9. Are all souls one?--The fifth Ennead--1. The three initial hypostases--2. The origin and order of the beings following on the first--3. The knowing hypostases and the transcendent--4. How the secondaries rise from the first; and on the one--5. That the intellectual beings are not outside the intellectual principe; and on the nature of the good--6. That the principle transcending being has no intellectual act. What being has intellection primally and what being has it secondarily--7. Is there an ideal archetype of particular beings?--8. On the intellectual beauty--9. The intellectual-principle, the ideas, and the authentic existence--The sixth Ennead--1. On the kinds of being (1)--2. On the kinds of being (2)--3. On the kinds of being (3)--4. On the integral omnipresence of the authentic existent (1)--5. On the integral omnipresence of the authentic existent (2)--6. On numbers--7. How the multiplicity of the ideal-forms came into being; and on the good--8. On free will and the will of one--9. On the good, or the one.
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Bibliography: p. 626-628.

Foreword: by E.R. Dodds--Preface to the second edition--Extracts from the explanatory matter in the first edition--Introduction: Plotinus' place in the history of thought: by Paul Henry--Porphyry's Life of Plotinus--The first Ennead--1. The animate and the man--2. The virtues--3. Dialectic--4. Happiness--5. Happiness and extension of time--6. Beauty--7. The primal good and secondary forms of good--8. The nature and source of evil--9. The reasoned dismissal--The second Ennead--1. The heavenly system--2. The heavenly circuit--3. Are the stars causes?--4. Matter--5. Potentiality and actuality--6. Quality--7. Complete transfusion--8. Why distant objects appear small--9. Against the Gnostics, or, Against those that affirm the creator of the cosmos and the cosmos itself to be evil--The third Ennead--1. Fate--2. Providence (1)--3. Providence (2)--4. Our tutelary spirit--5. Love--6. The impassivity of the unembodied--7. Time and eternity--8. Nature, contemplation, and the one--9. Detached considerations.

The fourth Ennead--1. On the essence of the soul (1)--2. On the essence of the soul (2)--3. Problems of the soul (1)--4. Problems of the soul (2)--5. Problems of the soul (3), or, On sight--6. Perception and memory--7. The immortality of the soul--8. The soul's descent into body--9. Are all souls one?--The fifth Ennead--1. The three initial hypostases--2. The origin and order of the beings following on the first--3. The knowing hypostases and the transcendent--4. How the secondaries rise from the first; and on the one--5. That the intellectual beings are not outside the intellectual principe; and on the nature of the good--6. That the principle transcending being has no intellectual act. What being has intellection primally and what being has it secondarily--7. Is there an ideal archetype of particular beings?--8. On the intellectual beauty--9. The intellectual-principle, the ideas, and the authentic existence--The sixth Ennead--1. On the kinds of being (1)--2. On the kinds of being (2)--3. On the kinds of being (3)--4. On the integral omnipresence of the authentic existent (1)--5. On the integral omnipresence of the authentic existent (2)--6. On numbers--7. How the multiplicity of the ideal-forms came into being; and on the good--8. On free will and the will of one--9. On the good, or the one.

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