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Regarded as the founder of Neo-Platonism, Plotinus (AD 204-70) was the last great philosopher of antiquity, producing 0works that proved in many ways ...
'The Essential Plotinus is a lifesaver. For many years my students in Greek and Roman Religion have depended on it to understand the transition from a...
The Great Restorer of the Philosophy of Plato: and Extracts from the Treatise of Synesius on Providence. Tr. from the Greek. With an Introduction Containing the Substance of Porphyry's Life of Plotinus
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The Six Enneads Plotinus - The Six Enneads is the collection of writings of Plotinus, edited and compiled by his student Porphyry. After correcting an...
A Commentary on Selected Texts
"The Six Enneads, sometimes abbreviated to The Enneads or Enneads, is the collection of writings of Plotinus, edited and compiled by his student Porph...
On the Immortality of the Soul
Ennead IV.7 is a very early treatise (second according to Porphyry's chronological table), and unlike the many treatises devoted to attempts at untang...
The Plotinus Reader provides a generous selection of translations from the fifty-four treatises that together make up the Enneads of Plotinus, a centr...
Representative Books from the Enneads
Plotinus
The Six Enneads of PlotinusThe Six Enneads, sometimes abbreviated to The Enneads or Enneads, is the collection of writings of Plotinus, edited and com...
Extracts from the Six Enneads and Porphyry's Life of Plotinus
PLOTINUS (A.D. 204/5-270), possibly of Roman descent, but certainly a Greek in education and environment, was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic ph...
On the Voluntary and on the Free Will of the One
Ennead VI.8 gives us access to the living mind of a long dead sage as he tries to answer some of the most fundamental questions we in the modern world...
On the Presence of Being, One and the Same, Everywhere as a Whole
Ennead VI.4-5, originally written as a single treatise, contains Plotinus' most general and sustained exposition of the relationship between the intel...
Against the Gnostics
How was the universe created, and what is our place within it? These are the questions at the heart of Plotinus' Against the Gnostics. For the Gnostic...
The Divine Mind, Being the Treatises of the Fifth Ennead
Complete Works in Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods
Viz. On Suicide, to which is Added an Extract from the Harleian Ms. of the Scholia of Olympiodorus on the Phædo of Plato Respecting Suicide, Accompanied by the Greek Text; Two Books on Truly Existing Being; and Extracts from His Treatise on the Manner in which the Multitude of Ideas Subsists, and Concerning the Good; with Additional Notes from Porphyry and Proclus
That the Intelligibles are not External to the Intellect, and on the Good
Platonists beginning in the Old Academy itself and up to and including Plotinus struggled to understand and articulate the relation between Plato's De...
Part of a series of facsimile reprints chosen and introduced by Jonathan Wordsworth. Taylor's translation of Plotinus was originally published in 1792...
On the Good Or the One
"A translation and commentary on Plotinus' Ennead VI.9 on the Good, being the treatise chosen by Porphyry as the culmination of Plotinus' Collected Wo...
Plotinus' Ennead V.8, originally part of a single work (with III.8, V.5, and II.9), provides the foundation for a positive view of the universe as an ...
Extracts from the Six Enneads and Porphyry's Life of Plotinus, Based on the Translation by Stephen Mackenna; with an Appendix Giving Some of the Most Important Platonic and Aristotelian Sources on which Plotinus Drew, and an Annotated Bibliography
Complete Works, in Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods
The Enneads, fully The Six Enneads, is the collection of writings of Plotinus, edited and compiled by his student Porphyry. Plotinus was a student of ...
Being the Treatises of the First Ennead with Porphyry's Life of Plotinus, and the Preller-Ritter Extracts Forming a Conspectus of the Plotinian System
This is a new release of the original 1932 edition....
From the Greek of Plotinus
The design of the following discourse is to bring us to the perception of the beautiful itself, even while connected with a corporeal nature, which mu...
Translated from the Greek with an Introduction Containing the Substance of Porphyry's Life of Plotinus
Select works of Plotinus - Translated from the Greek with an introduction containing the substance of Porphyry's life of Plotinus is an unchanged, hig...