Enneads


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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)

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I.1 The Organism and the Self (Vol.4 Pg.1191) 34:14 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
I.2 Concerning Virtue (Vol.1 Pg.256) 27:48 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
I.3 Of Dialectic, or the Means of Raising the Soul to the Intelligible World (Vol.1 Pg.269) 15:40 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
I.4 Whether Animals May Be Termed Happy (Vol.4 Pg.1019) 50:49 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
I.5 Does Happiness Increase With Time? (Vol.3 Pg.684) 13:40 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
I.6 Of Beauty (Vol.1 Pg.40) 35:54 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
I.7 Of the First Good, and of the Other Goods (Vol.4 Pg.1208) 7:35 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
I.8 Of the Nature and Origin of Evils (Vol.4 Pg.1142) 52:23 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
I.9 Of Suicide (Vol.1 Pg.243) 3:27 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
II.1 Of the Heaven (Vol.3 Pg.813) 32:30 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
II.2 About the Movement of the Heavens (Vol.1 Pg.227) 14:15 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
II.3 Whether Astrology is of any Value (Vol.4 Pg.1165) 53:36 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
II.4 Of Matter (Vol.1 Pg.197) 55:18 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
II.5 Of the Aristotelian Distinction Between Actuality and Potentiality (Vol.2 Pg.341) 20:39 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
II.6 Of Essence and Being (Vol.1 Pg.245) 14:46 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
II.7 About Mixture to the Point of Total Penetration (Vol.3 Pg.691) 13:08 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
II.8 Of Sight; or of Why Distant Objects Seem Small (Vol.3 Pg.680) 8:01 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
II.9a That the Creator and the World are Not Evil (Vol.2 Pg.599) 47:43 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
II.9b Against the Gnostics (Vol.2 Pg.620) 41:41 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
III.1 Concerning Fate (Vol.1 Pg.86) 31:52 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
III.2a Of Providence (Vol.4 Pg.1042) 41:16 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
III.2b Of Providence (Vol.4 Pg.1059) 37:45 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
III.3 Continuation of That on Providence (Vol.4 Pg.1077) 31:20 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
III.4 Of Our Individual Guardian (Vol.1 Pg.233) 23:52 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
III.5 Of Love, or "Eros" (Vol.4 Pg.1122) 44:06 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
III.6a Of the Impassibility of Incorporeal Entities (Vol.2 Pg.350) 46:09 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
III.6b Soul and Matter (Vol.2 Pg.368) 43:26 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
III.7a Of Eternity (Vol.3 Pg.985) 29:14 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
III.7b Of Time (Vol.3 Pg.996) 46:26 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
III.8 Of Nature, Contemplation and Unity (Vol.2 Pg.531) 51:11 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
III.9 Fragments About the Soul, the Intelligence, and the Good (Vol.1 Pg.220) 17:04 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
IV.1 Of the Being of the Soul (Vol.1 Pg.100) 3:09 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
IV.2 How the Soul Mediates Between Indivisible and Divisible Essence (Vol.1 Pg.276) 16:21 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
IV.3a Are Not All Souls Parts or Emanations of a Single Soul? (Vol.2 Pg.387) 40:41 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
IV.3b Why and How do Souls Descend into Bodies? (Vol.2 Pg.403) 34:16 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
IV.3c Does the Soul Employ Discursive Reason While Discarnate? (Vol.2 Pg.416) 54:45 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
IV.4a Questions About the Soul (Vol.2 Pg.441) 1:00:26 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
IV.4b Questions About the Soul (Vol.2 Pg.465) 1:04:57 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
IV.4c Questions About the Soul (Vol.2 Pg.490) 1:00:26 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
IV.5 About the Process of Vision and Hearing (Vol.2 Pg.514) 44:16 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
IV.6 Of Sensation and Memory (Vol.3 Pg.829) 16:58 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
IV.7a Of the Immortality of the Soul (Vol.1 Pg.56) 47:22 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
IV.7b Of the Immortality of the Soul (Vol.1 Pg.74) 30:11 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
IV.8 On the Descent of the Soul Into the Body (Vol.1 Pg.119) 37:39 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
IV.9 Whether All Souls Form a Single One (Vol.1 Pg.139) 20:24 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
V.1 The Three Principal Hypostases, or Forms of Existence (Vol.1 Pg.173) 52:10 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
V.2 Of Generation, and of the Order of things that Rank Next After the First (Vol.1 Pg.193) 8:38 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
V.3a The Self-Consciousnesses, and What is Above Them (Vol.4 Pg.1090) 43:09 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
V.3b The Self-Consciousnesses, and What is Above Them (Vol.4 Pg.1106) 40:47 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
V.4 How What is After the First Proceeds Therefrom; of the One (Vol.1 Pg.134) 12:27 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
V.5 That Intelligible Entities Are Not External to the Intelligence of the Good (Vol.2 Pg.575) 1:00:25 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
V.6 The Superessential Principle Does Not Think (Vol.2 Pg.333) 20:18 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
V.7 Do Ideas of Individuals Exist (Vol.1 Pg.251) 11:27 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
V.8 Concerning Intelligible Beauty (Vol.2 Pg.551) 1:03:28 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
V.9 Of Intelligence, Ideas and Essence (Vol.1 Pg.102) 42:08 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
VI.1a Of the Ten Aristotelian Categories (Vol.3 Pg.837) 1:01:49 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
VI.1b Of the Ten Aristotelian Categories (Vol.3 Pg.860) 48:19 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
VI.1c Criticism of the Stoic Categories (Vol.3 Pg.878) 29:07 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
VI.2a The Categories of Plotinos (Vol.3 Pg.891) 54:16 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
VI.2b The Categories of Plotinos (Vol.3 Pg.911) 58:25 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
VI.3a Plotinos's Own Sense-Categories (Vol.3 Pg.933) 42:30 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
VI.3b Plotinos's Own Sense-Categories (Vol.3 Pg.948) 49:57 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
VI.3c Plotinos's Own Sense-Categories (Vol.3 Pg.967) 44:34 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
VI.4a The One Identical Essence is Everywhere Entirely Present (Vol.2 Pg.285) 40:40 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
VI.4b The One Identical Essence is Everywhere Entirely Present (Vol.2 Pg.300) 35:21 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
VI.5 The One Identical Essence is Everywhere Entirely Present (Vol.2 Pg.314) 51:09 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
VI.6a Of Numbers (Vol.3 Pg.643) 48:32 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
VI.6b Of Numbers (Vol.3 Pg.661) 48:28 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
VI.7a How Ideas Multiply (Vol.3 Pg.697) 39:43 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
VI.7b How Ideas Multiply (Vol.3 Pg.712) 37:54 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
VI.7c A Study of the Good (Vol.3 Pg.726) 1:01:52 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
VI.7d A Study of the Good (Vol.3 Pg. 749) 1:01:11 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
VI.8a Of the Will of the One (Vol.3 Pg.773) 51:58 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
VI.8b Of the Will of the One (Vol.3 Pg.793) 49:48 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
VI.9a Of the Good and the One (Vol.1 Pg.147) 38:22 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
VI.9b Of the Good and the One (Vol.1 Pg.161) 28:08 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Life of Plotinos by Porphyry I-VII (Vol.1 Pg.5) 28:54 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Life of Plotinos by Porphyry VIII-XVIII (Vol.1 Pg.15) 26:00 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Life of Plotinos by Porphyry XIX-XXIV (Vol.1 Pg.25) 35:03 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Life of Plotinos by Eunapius & Suidas (Vol.1 Pg.39) 2:29 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Porphyry's Commentary - Part 1 (Vol.4 Pg.1215) 47:10 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Porphyry's Commentary - Part 2 (Vol.4 Pg.1233) 55:53 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Psychological Fragments (Vol.4 Pg. 1254) 32:10 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
PS1 Development in the Teachings of Plotinos (Vol.4 Pg.1269) 50:29 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
PS2 Platonism: Significance, Progress, and Results (Vol.4 Pg. 1288) 19:45 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
PS3 Plotinos's View of Matter (Vol.4 Pg.1296) 9:56 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
PS4 Plotinos's Creation of the Trinity (Vol.4 Pg.1300) 18:51 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
PS5 Resemblances to Christianity (Vol.4 Pg.1307) 13:48 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
PS6 Plotinos's Indebtedness to Numenius (Vol.4 Pg. 1313) 33:37 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
PS7 Value of Plotinos (Vol.4 Pg.1327) 18:42 Read by Geoffrey Edwards

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