Enneads
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Author | Plotinus |
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Original title | Ἐννεάδες |
Illustrator | |
Country | Roman Empire |
Language | Greek |
Subject | Philosophy |
Published | 200s A.D. |
Pages |
The Enneads by Plotinus
Topics[edit]
- Mysticism (Mystical Union with the One)
- Metaphysics (Ontogenesis)
Outline[edit]
By Ennead[edit]
Topics of each Ennead (roughly):
- Ethics
- Physics
- Time, etc.
- The Soul (psyche; ψυχή)
- The Intellect (nous; νοῦς)
- The One ([to] hen; [τὸ] ἕν)
By treatise[edit]
Treatises covering mysticism and metaphysics are highlighted in bold. The Großschrift treatises are underlined.
Treatise | Order | Topic |
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1.1 | 53 | What Is the Living Being and What Is the Human Being? |
1.2 | 19 | On Virtues |
1.3 | 20 | On Dialectic |
1.4 | 46 | On Happiness |
1.5 | 36 | On Whether Happiness Increases with Time |
1.6 | 1 | On Beauty |
1.7 | 54 | On the Primary Good and on the Other Goods |
1.8 | 51 | On What Evils Are and Where They Come From |
1.9 | 16 | On Exiting from the Body |
2.1 | 40 | On the Cosmos |
2.2 | 14 | On the Motion of Heaven |
2.3 | 52 | On Whether the Stars Are Causes |
2.4 | 12 | On Matter |
2.5 | 25 | On ‘Potentially’ and ‘Actually’ |
2.6 | 17 | On Substance or On Quality |
2.7 | 37 | On Complete Blending |
2.8 | 35 | On Seeing, or On How It Is That Distant Things Appear Small |
2.9 | 33 | Against the Gnostics |
3.1 | 3 | On Fate |
3.2–3 | 47, 48 | On Providence |
3.4 | 15 | On Our Allotted Daemon |
3.5 | 50 | On Love |
3.6 | 26 | On the Impassibility of Things without Bodies |
3.7 | 45 | On Eternity and Time |
3.8 | 30 | On Nature, Contemplation, and the One |
3.9 | 13 | Various Considerations |
4.1 | 21 | On the Substantiality of the Soul |
4.2 | 4 | On the Substantiality of the Soul |
4.3–5 | 27, 28, 29 | On Problems of the Soul 1–3 |
4.6 | 41 | On Sense Perception and Memory |
4.7 | 2 | On the Immortality of the Soul |
4.8 | 6 | On the Descent of Souls into Bodies |
4.9 | 8 | On Whether All Souls Are One |
5.1 | 10 | On the Three Primary Hypostases |
5.2 | 11 | On the Generation and Order of the Things Which Come after the First |
5.3 | 49 | On the Knowing Hypostasis and on That Which Is Transcendent |
5.4 | 7 | How That Which Is after the First Comes from the First, and on the One |
5.5 | 32 | That the Intelligibles Are Not outside the Intellect, and on the Good |
5.6 | 24 | On the Fact That That Which Transcends Being Does Not Think and on What the Primary Thinking Is and What Is Secondary |
5.7 | 18 | On Whether or Not There Are Ideas of Individuals |
5.8 | 31 | On the Intelligible Beauty |
5.9 | 5 | On Intellect, Ideas, and Being |
6.1–3 | 42, 43, 44 | On the Genera of Being 1–3 |
6.4–5 | 22, 23 | That Being, One and Identical, Is Simultaneously Everywhere Whole 1–2 |
6.6 | 34 | On Numbers |
6.7 | 38 | How the Multiplicity of the Ideas Came to Exist, and on the Good |
6.8 | 39 | On the Voluntary, and the One’s Wishing |
6.9 | 9 | On the Good or the One |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- Gerson, Lloyd P. (trans.) (2018). The Enneads. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-00177-0.