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Enneads

Plotinus (204 - 270) and Porphyry (234 - 305)
Translated by Kenneth Guthrie (1871 - 1940)

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)

Genre(s): Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity), Ancient

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	Forward	Geoffrey Edwards	00:03:30
Play 01	I.1 The Organism and the Self (Vol.4 Pg.1191)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:34:14
Play 02	I.2 Concerning Virtue (Vol.1 Pg.256)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:27:48
Play 03	I.3 Of Dialectic, or the Means of Raising the Soul to the Intelligible World (Vol.1 Pg.269)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:15:40
Play 04	I.4 Whether Animals May Be Termed Happy (Vol.4 Pg.1019)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:50:49
Play 05	I.5 Does Happiness Increase With Time? (Vol.3 Pg.684)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:13:40
Play 06	I.6 Of Beauty (Vol.1 Pg.40)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:35:54
Play 07	I.7 Of the First Good, and of the Other Goods (Vol.4 Pg.1208)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:07:35
Play 08	I.8 Of the Nature and Origin of Evils (Vol.4 Pg.1142)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:52:23
Play 09	I.9 Of Suicide (Vol.1 Pg.243)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:03:27
Play 10	II.1 Of the Heaven (Vol.3 Pg.813)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:32:30
Play 11	II.2 About the Movement of the Heavens (Vol.1 Pg.227)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:14:15
Play 12	II.3 Whether Astrology is of any Value (Vol.4 Pg.1165)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:53:36
Play 13	II.4 Of Matter (Vol.1 Pg.197)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:55:18
Play 14	II.5 Of the Aristotelian Distinction Between Actuality and Potentiality (Vol.2 Pg.341)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:20:39
Play 15	II.6 Of Essence and Being (Vol.1 Pg.245)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:14:46
Play 16	II.7 About Mixture to the Point of Total Penetration (Vol.3 Pg.691)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:13:08
Play 17	II.8 Of Sight; or of Why Distant Objects Seem Small (Vol.3 Pg.680)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:08:01
Play 18	II.9a That the Creator and the World are Not Evil (Vol.2 Pg.599)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:47:43
Play 19	II.9b Against the Gnostics (Vol.2 Pg.620)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:41:41
Play 20	III.1 Concerning Fate (Vol.1 Pg.86)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:31:52
Play 21	III.2a Of Providence (Vol.4 Pg.1042)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:41:16
Play 22	III.2b Of Providence (Vol.4 Pg.1059)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:37:45
Play 23	III.3 Continuation of That on Providence (Vol.4 Pg.1077)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:31:20
Play 24	III.4 Of Our Individual Guardian (Vol.1 Pg.233)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:23:52
Play 25	III.5 Of Love, or "Eros" (Vol.4 Pg.1122)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:44:06
Play 26	III.6a Of the Impassibility of Incorporeal Entities (Vol.2 Pg.350)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:46:09
Play 27	III.6b Soul and Matter (Vol.2 Pg.368)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:43:26
Play 28	III.7a Of Eternity (Vol.3 Pg.985)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:29:14
Play 29	III.7b Of Time (Vol.3 Pg.996)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:46:26
Play 30	III.8 Of Nature, Contemplation and Unity (Vol.2 Pg.531)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:51:11
Play 31	III.9 Fragments About the Soul, the Intelligence, and the Good (Vol.1 Pg.220)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:17:04
Play 32	IV.1 Of the Being of the Soul (Vol.1 Pg.100)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:03:09
Play 33	IV.2 How the Soul Mediates Between Indivisible and Divisible Essence (Vol.1 Pg.276)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:16:21
Play 34	IV.3a Are Not All Souls Parts or Emanations of a Single Soul? (Vol.2 Pg.387)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:40:41
Play 35	IV.3b Why and How do Souls Descend into Bodies? (Vol.2 Pg.403)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:34:16
Play 36	IV.3c Does the Soul Employ Discursive Reason While Discarnate? (Vol.2 Pg.416)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:54:45
Play 37	IV.4a Questions About the Soul (Vol.2 Pg.441)	Geoffrey Edwards	01:00:26
Play 38	IV.4b Questions About the Soul (Vol.2 Pg.465)	Geoffrey Edwards	01:04:57
Play 39	IV.4c Questions About the Soul (Vol.2 Pg.490)	Geoffrey Edwards	01:00:26
Play 40	IV.5 About the Process of Vision and Hearing (Vol.2 Pg.514)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:44:16
Play 41	IV.6 Of Sensation and Memory (Vol.3 Pg.829)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:16:58
Play 42	IV.7a Of the Immortality of the Soul (Vol.1 Pg.56)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:47:22
Play 43	IV.7b Of the Immortality of the Soul (Vol.1 Pg.74)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:30:11
Play 44	IV.8 On the Descent of the Soul Into the Body (Vol.1 Pg.119)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:37:39
Play 45	IV.9 Whether All Souls Form a Single One (Vol.1 Pg.139)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:20:24
Play 46	V.1 The Three Principal Hypostases, or Forms of Existence (Vol.1 Pg.173)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:52:10
Play 47	V.2 Of Generation, and of the Order of things that Rank Next After the First (Vol.1 Pg.193)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:08:38
Play 48	V.3a The Self-Consciousnesses, and What is Above Them (Vol.4 Pg.1090)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:43:09
Play 49	V.3b The Self-Consciousnesses, and What is Above Them (Vol.4 Pg.1106)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:40:47
Play 50	V.4 How What is After the First Proceeds Therefrom; of the One (Vol.1 Pg.134)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:12:27
Play 51	V.5 That Intelligible Entities Are Not External to the Intelligence of the Good (Vol.2 Pg.575)	Geoffrey Edwards	01:00:25
Play 52	V.6 The Superessential Principle Does Not Think (Vol.2 Pg.333)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:20:18
Play 53	V.7 Do Ideas of Individuals Exist (Vol.1 Pg.251)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:11:27
Play 54	V.8 Concerning Intelligible Beauty (Vol.2 Pg.551)	Geoffrey Edwards	01:03:28
Play 55	V.9 Of Intelligence, Ideas and Essence (Vol.1 Pg.102)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:42:08
Play 56	VI.1a Of the Ten Aristotelian Categories (Vol.3 Pg.837)	Geoffrey Edwards	01:01:49
Play 57	VI.1b Of the Ten Aristotelian Categories (Vol.3 Pg.860)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:48:19
Play 58	VI.1c Criticism of the Stoic Categories (Vol.3 Pg.878)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:29:07
Play 59	VI.2a The Categories of Plotinos (Vol.3 Pg.891)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:54:16
Play 60	VI.2b The Categories of Plotinos (Vol.3 Pg.911)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:58:25
Play 61	VI.3a Plotinos's Own Sense-Categories (Vol.3 Pg.933)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:42:30
Play 62	VI.3b Plotinos's Own Sense-Categories (Vol.3 Pg.948)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:49:57
Play 63	VI.3c Plotinos's Own Sense-Categories (Vol.3 Pg.967)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:44:34
Play 64	VI.4a The One Identical Essence is Everywhere Entirely Present (Vol.2 Pg.285)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:40:40
Play 65	VI.4b The One Identical Essence is Everywhere Entirely Present (Vol.2 Pg.300)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:35:21
Play 66	VI.5 The One Identical Essence is Everywhere Entirely Present (Vol.2 Pg.314)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:51:09
Play 67	VI.6a Of Numbers (Vol.3 Pg.643)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:48:32
Play 68	VI.6b Of Numbers (Vol.3 Pg.661)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:48:28
Play 69	VI.7a How Ideas Multiply (Vol.3 Pg.697)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:39:43
Play 70	VI.7b How Ideas Multiply (Vol.3 Pg.712)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:37:54
Play 71	VI.7c A Study of the Good (Vol.3 Pg.726)	Geoffrey Edwards	01:01:52
Play 72	VI.7d A Study of the Good (Vol.3 Pg. 749)	Geoffrey Edwards	01:01:11
Play 73	VI.8a Of the Will of the One (Vol.3 Pg.773)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:51:58
Play 74	VI.8b Of the Will of the One (Vol.3 Pg.793)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:49:48
Play 75	VI.9a Of the Good and the One (Vol.1 Pg.147)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:38:22
Play 76	VI.9b Of the Good and the One (Vol.1 Pg.161)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:28:08
Play 77	Life of Plotinos by Porphyry I-VII (Vol.1 Pg.5)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:28:54
Play 78	Life of Plotinos by Porphyry VIII-XVIII (Vol.1 Pg.15)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:26:00
Play 79	Life of Plotinos by Porphyry XIX-XXIV (Vol.1 Pg.25)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:35:03
Play 80	Life of Plotinos by Eunapius & Suidas (Vol.1 Pg.39)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:02:29
Play 81	Porphyry's Commentary - Part 1 (Vol.4 Pg.1215)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:47:10
Play 82	Porphyry's Commentary - Part 2 (Vol.4 Pg.1233)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:55:53
Play 83	Psychological Fragments (Vol.4 Pg. 1254)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:32:10
Play 84	PS1 Development in the Teachings of Plotinos (Vol.4 Pg.1269)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:50:29
Play 85	PS2 Platonism: Significance, Progress, and Results (Vol.4 Pg. 1288)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:19:45
Play 86	PS3 Plotinos's View of Matter (Vol.4 Pg.1296)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:09:56
Play 87	PS4 Plotinos's Creation of the Trinity (Vol.4 Pg.1300)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:18:51
Play 88	PS5 Resemblances to Christianity (Vol.4 Pg.1307)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:13:48
Play 89	PS6 Plotinos's Indebtedness to Numenius (Vol.4 Pg. 1313)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:33:37
Play 90	PS7 Value of Plotinos (Vol.4 Pg.1327)	Geoffrey Edwards	00:18:42

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