The enneads. (2005)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- The enneads. (2005)
- Main Title:
- The enneads
- Uniform Title:
- Enneads.
- Further Information:
- Note: Plotinus ; translated by Stephen Mackenna ; abridged with an introduction and notes by John Dillon.
- Other Names:
- Plotinus
Mackenna, Stephen, 1872-1934
Dillon, John M - Contents:
- The first ennead -- The animate and the man -- The virtues -- Dialectic -- Happiness -- Beauty -- The nature and source of evil -- 'The reasoned dismissal' -- The second ennead -- Are the stars caused? -- Matter -- Against the Gnostics; or against those that affirm the Creator of the cosmos and the cosmos itself to be evil -- The third ennead -- Providence: first treatise -- Providence: second treatise -- Our tutelary spirit -- Love -- The impassivity of the unembodied -- Time and eternity -- Nature, contemplation, and the one -- The fourth ennead -- Problems of the soul (!) -- Problems of the soul (II) -- The soul's descent into body -- The fifth ennead -- The three initial hypostases -- The origin and order of the beings following on the first -- The knowing hypostases and the transcendent -- How the secondaries rise from the first; and on the one -- That the intellectual beings are not outside the intellectual-principle: and on the nature of the good -- Is there an ideal archetype of particular beings? -- On the intellectual beauty -- The intellectual principle, the ideas, and the authentic existence -- The sixth ennead -- On the integral omnipresence of the authentic existent (I) -- On the integral omnipresence of the authentic existent (II) -- How the multiplicity of the ideal-forms came into being; and on the good -- On free will and the will of the one -- On the good, or the one.
- Publisher Details:
- London : Penguin
- Publication Date:
- 2005
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (688 pages)
- Subjects:
- 186/.4
PHILOSOPHY / Essays*
Philosophy
Philosophy
Filosofia antiga
Neoplatonismo - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9780141913353
0141913355 - Access Rights:
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