The Enneads, fully The Six Enneads, is the collection of writings of Plotinus, edited and compiled by his student Porphyry (c. AD 270). Plotinus was a student of Ammonius Saccas and they were founders of Neoplatonism. His work, through Augustine of Hippo, the Cappadocian Fathers, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and several subsequent Christian and Muslim thinkers, has greatly influenced Western and Near-Eastern thought.
By : Plotinus (204 - 270) and Porphyry (234 - 305),Translated by Kenneth Guthrie (1871 - 1940)
00 - Forward
01 - I.1 The Organism and the Self (Vol.4 Pg.1191)
02 - I.2 Concerning Virtue (Vol.1 Pg.256)
03 - I.3 Of Dialectic, or the Means of Raising the Soul to the Intelligible World (Vol.1 Pg.269)
04 - I.4 Whether Animals May Be Termed Happy (Vol.4 Pg.1019)
05 - I.5 Does Happiness Increase With Time? (Vol.3 Pg.684)
06 - I.6 Of Beauty (Vol.1 Pg.40)
07 - I.7 Of the First Good, and of the Other Goods (Vol.4 Pg.1208)
08 - I.8 Of the Nature and Origin of Evils (Vol.4 Pg.1142)
09 - I.9 Of Suicide (Vol.1 Pg.243)
10 - II.1 Of the Heaven (Vol.3 Pg.813)
11 - II.2 About the Movement of the Heavens (Vol.1 Pg.227)
12 - II.3 Whether Astrology is of any Value (Vol.4 Pg.1165)
13 - II.4 Of Matter (Vol.1 Pg.197)
14 - II.5 Of the Aristotelian Distinction Between Actuality and Potentiality (Vol.2 Pg.341)
15 - II.6 Of Essence and Being (Vol.1 Pg.245)
16 - II.7 About Mixture to the Point of Total Penetration (Vol.3 Pg.691)
17 - II.8 Of Sight; or of Why Distant Objects Seem Small (Vol.3 Pg.680)
18 - II.9a That the Creator and the World are Not Evil (Vol.2 Pg.599)
19 - II.9b Against the Gnostics (Vol.2 Pg.620)
20 - III.1 Concerning Fate (Vol.1 Pg.86)
21 - III.2a Of Providence (Vol.4 Pg.1042)
22 - III.2b Of Providence (Vol.4 Pg.1059)
23 - III.3 Continuation of That on Providence (Vol.4 Pg.1077)
24 - III.4 Of Our Individual Guardian (Vol.1 Pg.233)
25 - III.5 Of Love, or 'Eros'
26 - III.6a Of the Impassibility of Incorporeal Entities (Vol.2 Pg.350)
27 - III.6b Soul and Matter (Vol.2 Pg.368)
28 - III.7a Of Eternity (Vol.3 Pg.985)
29 - III.7b Of Time (Vol.3 Pg.996)
30 - III.8 Of Nature, Contemplation and Unity (Vol.2 Pg.531)
31 - III.9 Fragments About the Soul, the Intelligence, and the Good (Vol.1 Pg.220)
32 - IV.1 Of the Being of the Soul (Vol.1 Pg.100)
33 - IV.2 How the Soul Mediates Between Indivisible and Divisible Essence (Vol.1 Pg.276)
34 - IV.3a Are Not All Souls Parts or Emanations of a Single Soul? (Vol.2 Pg.387)
35 - IV.3b Why and How do Souls Descend into Bodies? (Vol.2 Pg.403)
36 - IV.3c Does the Soul Employ Discursive Reason While Discarnate? (Vol.2 Pg.416)
37 - IV.4a Questions About the Soul (Vol.2 Pg.441)
38 - IV.4b Questions About the Soul (Vol.2 Pg.465)
39 - IV.4c Questions About the Soul (Vol.2 Pg.490)
40 - IV.5 About the Process of Vision and Hearing (Vol.2 Pg.514)
41 - IV.6 Of Sensation and Memory (Vol.3 Pg.829)
42 - IV.7a Of the Immortality of the Soul (Vol.1 Pg.56)
43 - IV.7b Of the Immortality of the Soul (Vol.1 Pg.74)
44 - IV.8 On the Descent of the Soul Into the Body (Vol.1 Pg.119)
45 - IV.9 Whether All Souls Form a Single One (Vol.1 Pg.139)
46 - V.1 The Three Principal Hypostases, or Forms of Existence (Vol.1 Pg.173)
47 - V.2 Of Generation, and of the Order of things that Rank Next After the First (Vol.1 Pg.193)
48 - V.3a The Self-Consciousnesses, and What is Above Them (Vol.4 Pg.1090)
49 - V.3b The Self-Consciousnesses, and What is Above Them (Vol.4 Pg.1106)
50 - V.4 How What is After the First Proceeds Therefrom; of the One (Vol.1 Pg.134)
51 - V.5 That Intelligible Entities Are Not External to the Intelligence of the Good (Vol.2 Pg.575)
52 - V.6 The Superessential Principle Does Not Think (Vol.2 Pg.333)
53 - V.7 Do Ideas of Individuals Exist (Vol.1 Pg.251)
86 - PS3 Plotinos's View of Matter (Vol.4 Pg.1296)
87 - PS4 Plotinos's Creation of the Trinity (Vol.4 Pg.1300)
88 - PS5 Resemblances to Christianity (Vol.4 Pg.1307)
89 - PS6 Plotinos's Indebtedness to Numenius (Vol.4 Pg. 1313)
90 - PS7 Value of Plotinos (Vol.4 Pg.1327)
Porphyry edited the writings of Plotinus in fifty-four treatises, which vary greatly in length and number of chapters, mostly because he split original texts and joined others together to match this very number. Then, he proceeded to set the fifty-four treatises in groups of nine (Greek. ennea) or Enneads. He also collected The Enneads into three volumes. The first volume contained the first three Enneads (I, II, III), the second volume has the Fourth (IV) and the Fifth (V) Enneads, and the last volume was devoted to the remaining Enneads. After correcting and naming each treatise, Porphyry wrote a biography of his master, Life of Plotinus, intended to be an Introduction to the Enneads.
Porphyry's edition does not follow the chronological order in which Enneads were written (see Chronological Listing below), but responds to a plan of study which leads the learner from subjects related to his own affairs to subjects concerning the uttermost principles of the universe.
Although not exclusively, Porphyry tells us (Cf. Life of Plotinus, chapters.24-26) that the First Ennead deals with Human or ethical topics, the Second and Third Enneads are mostly devoted to cosmological subjects or physical reality, the Fourth concerns the Soul, the Fifth knowledge and intelligible reality, and finally the Sixth covers Being and what is above it, the One or first principle of all.
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