The enneads. (2005)

• Record Type: Book
• 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
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