Plotinus: The Enneads

Name: Plotinus: The Enneads
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ISBN: 9781009605021

by Lloyd P. Gerson, George Boys-Stones, John M. Dillon, R. A. H. King, Andrew Smith, James Wilberding

2nd Edition

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Print ISBN	9781009605021
eText ISBN	9781009605014
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Publishing Year	2025
Edition	2nd Edition
Language	English
Pages	948

Plotinus: The Enneads, 2nd Edition, compiles the complete English translation of Plotinus' surviving treatises into a single volume. Prepared for scholars of Plotinus and students of the Platonic tradition, this publication establishes a comprehensive primary source for evaluating philosophy in late antiquity.

The volume details Plotinus' philosophical arguments across extensive thematic areas of classical philosophy, including treatises on beauty, virtues, providence, and the soul. In addition to the main philosophical treatises, the volume incorporates Porphyry's Life of Plotinus, providing readers with historical and biographical context regarding the philosopher's life and teaching.

Updating the previous release, this second edition features textual corrections and additional cross-references throughout the text. These specific structural elements aid cross-referencing across individual treatises, offering clear support for upper-division university courses, graduate seminars, and independent classical research.

Chapter 1.1 (53): What Is the Living Being and What Is the Human Being?
Chapter 1.2 (19): On Virtues
Chapter 1.3 (20): On Dialectic
Chapter 1.4 (46): On Happiness
Chapter 1.5 (36): On Whether Happiness Increases with Time
Chapter 1.6 (1): On Beauty
Chapter 1.7 (54): On the Primary Good and on the Other Goods
Chapter 1.8 (51): On What Evils Are and Where They Come From
Chapter 1.9 (16): On Exiting from the Body
Chapter 2.1 (40): On the Cosmos
Chapter 2.2 (14): On the Motion of Heaven
Chapter 2.3 (52): On Whether the Stars Are Causes
Chapter 2.4 (12): On Matter
Chapter 2.5 (25): On ‘Potentially’ and ‘Actually’
Chapter 2.6 (17): On Substance or On Quality
Chapter 2.7 (37): On Complete Blending
Chapter 2.8 (35): On Seeing, or On How It Is That Distant Things Appear Small
Chapter 2.9 (33): Against the Gnostics
Chapter 3.1 (3): On Fate
Chapter 3.2–3 (47 and 48): On Providence
Chapter 3.4 (15): On Our Allotted Daemon
Chapter 3.5 (50): On Love
Chapter 3.6 (26): On the Impassibility of Things without Bodies
Chapter 3.7 (45): On Eternity and Time
Chapter 3.8 (30): On Nature, Contemplation, and the One
Chapter 3.9 (13): Various Considerations
Chapter 4.1 (21): On the Substantiality of the Soul 2
Chapter 4.2 (4): On the Substantiality of the Soul 1
Chapter 4.3–5 (27, 28, and 29): On Problems of the Soul 1–3
Chapter 4.6 (41): On Sense-Perception and Memory
Chapter 4.7 (2): On the Immortality of the Soul
Chapter 4.8 (6): On the Descent of Souls into Bodies
Chapter 4.9 (8): On Whether All Souls Are One
Chapter 5.1 (10): On the Three Primary Hypostases
Chapter 5.2 (11): On the Generation and Order of the Things Which Come after the First
Chapter 5.3 (49): On the Knowing Hypostasis and on That Which Is Transcendent
Chapter 5.4 (7): How That Which Is After the First Comes from the First, and on the One
Chapter 5.5 (32): That the Intelligibles Are Not Outside the Intellect, and on the Good
Chapter 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
Chapter 5.7 (18): On Whether or Not There Are Ideas of Individuals
Chapter 5.8 (31): On the Intelligible Beauty
Chapter 5.9 (5): On Intellect, Ideas, and Being
Chapter 6.1–3 (42, 43, and 44): On the Genera of Being 1–3
Chapter 6.4–5 (22 and 23): That Being, One and Identical, Is Simultaneously Everywhere Whole 1–2
Chapter 6.6 (34): On Numbers
Chapter 6.7 (38): How the Multiplicity of the Ideas Came to Exist, and on the Good
Chapter 6.8 (39): On the Voluntary, and the One’s Wishing
Chapter 6.9 (9): On the Good or the One