Enneads
Plotinus , Porphyry
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Length 54 h 12 min
Chapters 90
First published 1918
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)
Chapters
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Forward Read by Geoffrey Edwards 3:30
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I.2 Concerning Virtue (Vol.1 Pg.256) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 27:48
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I.3 Of Dialectic, or the Means of Raising the Soul to the Intelligible World (Vol.1 Pg.269) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 15:40
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I.4 Whether Animals May Be Termed Happy (Vol.4 Pg.1019) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 50:49
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I.5 Does Happiness Increase With Time? (Vol.3 Pg.684) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 13:40
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I.6 Of Beauty (Vol.1 Pg.40) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 35:54
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I.7 Of the First Good, and of the Other Goods (Vol.4 Pg.1208) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 7:35
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I.8 Of the Nature and Origin of Evils (Vol.4 Pg.1142) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 52:23
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I.9 Of Suicide (Vol.1 Pg.243) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 3:27
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II.1 Of the Heaven (Vol.3 Pg.813) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 32:30
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II.2 About the Movement of the Heavens (Vol.1 Pg.227) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 14:15
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II.3 Whether Astrology is of any Value (Vol.4 Pg.1165) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 53:36
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II.4 Of Matter (Vol.1 Pg.197) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 55:18
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II.5 Of the Aristotelian Distinction Between Actuality and Potentiality (Vol.2 Pg.341) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 20:39
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II.6 Of Essence and Being (Vol.1 Pg.245) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 14:46
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II.7 About Mixture to the Point of Total Penetration (Vol.3 Pg.691) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 13:08
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II.8 Of Sight; or of Why Distant Objects Seem Small (Vol.3 Pg.680) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 8:01
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II.9a That the Creator and the World are Not Evil (Vol.2 Pg.599) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 47:43
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II.9b Against the Gnostics (Vol.2 Pg.620) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 41:41
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III.1 Concerning Fate (Vol.1 Pg.86) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 31:52
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III.2a Of Providence (Vol.4 Pg.1042) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 41:16
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III.2b Of Providence (Vol.4 Pg.1059) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 37:45
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III.3 Continuation of That on Providence (Vol.4 Pg.1077) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 31:20
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III.4 Of Our Individual Guardian (Vol.1 Pg.233) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 23:52
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III.5 Of Love, or "Eros" (Vol.4 Pg.1122) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 44:06
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III.6a Of the Impassibility of Incorporeal Entities (Vol.2 Pg.350) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 46:09
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III.6b Soul and Matter (Vol.2 Pg.368) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 43:26
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III.7a Of Eternity (Vol.3 Pg.985) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 29:14
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III.7b Of Time (Vol.3 Pg.996) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 46:26
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III.8 Of Nature, Contemplation and Unity (Vol.2 Pg.531) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 51:11
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III.9 Fragments About the Soul, the Intelligence, and the Good (Vol.1 Pg.220) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 17:04
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IV.1 Of the Being of the Soul (Vol.1 Pg.100) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 3:09
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IV.2 How the Soul Mediates Between Indivisible and Divisible Essence (Vol.1 Pg.276) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 16:21
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IV.3a Are Not All Souls Parts or Emanations of a Single Soul? (Vol.2 Pg.387) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 40:41
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IV.3b Why and How do Souls Descend into Bodies? (Vol.2 Pg.403) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 34:16
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IV.3c Does the Soul Employ Discursive Reason While Discarnate? (Vol.2 Pg.416) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 54:45
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IV.4a Questions About the Soul (Vol.2 Pg.441) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 1:00:26
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IV.4b Questions About the Soul (Vol.2 Pg.465) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 1:04:57
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IV.4c Questions About the Soul (Vol.2 Pg.490) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 1:00:26
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IV.5 About the Process of Vision and Hearing (Vol.2 Pg.514) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 44:16
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IV.6 Of Sensation and Memory (Vol.3 Pg.829) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 16:58
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IV.7a Of the Immortality of the Soul (Vol.1 Pg.56) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 47:22
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IV.7b Of the Immortality of the Soul (Vol.1 Pg.74) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 30:11
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IV.8 On the Descent of the Soul Into the Body (Vol.1 Pg.119) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 37:39
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IV.9 Whether All Souls Form a Single One (Vol.1 Pg.139) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 20:24
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V.1 The Three Principal Hypostases, or Forms of Existence (Vol.1 Pg.173) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 52:10
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V.2 Of Generation, and of the Order of things that Rank Next After the First (Vol.1 Pg.193) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 8:38
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V.3a The Self-Consciousnesses, and What is Above Them (Vol.4 Pg.1090) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 43:09
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V.3b The Self-Consciousnesses, and What is Above Them (Vol.4 Pg.1106) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 40:47
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V.4 How What is After the First Proceeds Therefrom; of the One (Vol.1 Pg.134) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 12:27
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V.5 That Intelligible Entities Are Not External to the Intelligence of the Good (Vol.2 Pg.575) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 1:00:25
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V.6 The Superessential Principle Does Not Think (Vol.2 Pg.333) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 20:18
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V.7 Do Ideas of Individuals Exist (Vol.1 Pg.251) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 11:27
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V.8 Concerning Intelligible Beauty (Vol.2 Pg.551) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 1:03:28
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V.9 Of Intelligence, Ideas and Essence (Vol.1 Pg.102) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 42:08
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VI.1a Of the Ten Aristotelian Categories (Vol.3 Pg.837) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 1:01:49
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VI.1b Of the Ten Aristotelian Categories (Vol.3 Pg.860) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 48:19
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VI.1c Criticism of the Stoic Categories (Vol.3 Pg.878) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 29:07
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VI.2a The Categories of Plotinos (Vol.3 Pg.891) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 54:16
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VI.2b The Categories of Plotinos (Vol.3 Pg.911) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 58:25
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VI.3a Plotinos's Own Sense-Categories (Vol.3 Pg.933) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 42:30
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VI.3b Plotinos's Own Sense-Categories (Vol.3 Pg.948) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 49:57
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VI.3c Plotinos's Own Sense-Categories (Vol.3 Pg.967) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 44:34
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VI.4a The One Identical Essence is Everywhere Entirely Present (Vol.2 Pg.285) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 40:40
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VI.4b The One Identical Essence is Everywhere Entirely Present (Vol.2 Pg.300) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 35:21
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VI.5 The One Identical Essence is Everywhere Entirely Present (Vol.2 Pg.314) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 51:09
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VI.6a Of Numbers (Vol.3 Pg.643) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 48:32
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VI.6b Of Numbers (Vol.3 Pg.661) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 48:28
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VI.7a How Ideas Multiply (Vol.3 Pg.697) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 39:43
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VI.7b How Ideas Multiply (Vol.3 Pg.712) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 37:54
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VI.7c A Study of the Good (Vol.3 Pg.726) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 1:01:52
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VI.7d A Study of the Good (Vol.3 Pg. 749) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 1:01:11
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VI.8a Of the Will of the One (Vol.3 Pg.773) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 51:58
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VI.8b Of the Will of the One (Vol.3 Pg.793) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 49:48
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VI.9a Of the Good and the One (Vol.1 Pg.147) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 38:22
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VI.9b Of the Good and the One (Vol.1 Pg.161) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 28:08
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Life of Plotinos by Porphyry I-VII (Vol.1 Pg.5) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 28:54
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Life of Plotinos by Porphyry VIII-XVIII (Vol.1 Pg.15) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 26:00
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Life of Plotinos by Porphyry XIX-XXIV (Vol.1 Pg.25) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 35:03
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Life of Plotinos by Eunapius & Suidas (Vol.1 Pg.39) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 2:29
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Porphyry's Commentary - Part 1 (Vol.4 Pg.1215) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 47:10
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Porphyry's Commentary - Part 2 (Vol.4 Pg.1233) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 55:53
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Psychological Fragments (Vol.4 Pg. 1254) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 32:10
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PS1 Development in the Teachings of Plotinos (Vol.4 Pg.1269) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 50:29
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PS2 Platonism: Significance, Progress, and Results (Vol.4 Pg. 1288) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 19:45
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PS3 Plotinos's View of Matter (Vol.4 Pg.1296) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 9:56
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PS4 Plotinos's Creation of the Trinity (Vol.4 Pg.1300) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 18:51
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PS5 Resemblances to Christianity (Vol.4 Pg.1307) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 13:48
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PS6 Plotinos's Indebtedness to Numenius (Vol.4 Pg. 1313) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 33:37
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PS7 Value of Plotinos (Vol.4 Pg.1327) Read by Geoffrey Edwards 18:42
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