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Plotinus (205-270 CE) was the founder of Neoplatonism. He was born in Lycopolis, Egypt, and became interested in philosophy when he was 28. He studied philosophy in Alexandria before travelling to Persia in 243, and settling in Rome in 244, at the age of 40. In Rome, he taught philosophy, and became a friend of the Emperor Gallienus. Plotinus tried to persuade Gallienus to build a city called Platonopolis which was to be governed according to the model of Plato’s Republic, but the plan eventually had to be abandoned. Plotinus lived in Rome from 244 to 268, and produced his philosophical writings from 253 to 270. He died in 270, in Campania, Italy.
After his death, Plotinus’s writings were edited by his student Porphyry, who arranged them into six groups: "The Six Enneads", each consisting of nine treatises, making a total of fifty-four treatises (Enneads refers to these "groups of nine," and is derived from the Greek word for nine, ennea). "The Six Enneads" are an extended investigation of the nature of the Soul, and of the relation of the Soul to divine Intellect and to divine Unity.
These writings had a significant impact on the religious metaphysicians and mystics from the ancient world. Plotinus has also influenced many thinkers of Islam, Indian Monism, and the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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Table of contents
1THE FIRST ENNEAD
2First Tractate. The Animate And The Man
3Second Tractate. On Virtue
4Third Tractate. On Dialectic [The Upward Way]
5Fourth Tractate. On True Happiness
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6Fifth Tractate. Happiness And Extension Of Time
7Sixth Tractate. Beauty
8Seventh Tractate. On The Primal Good And Secondary Forms Of Good [Otherwise, "On Happiness"]
9Eighth Tractate. On The Nature And Source Of Evil
10Ninth Tractate. "The Reasoned Dismissal"
11THE SECOND ENNEAD
12First Tractate. On The Kosmos Or On The Heavenly System
13Second Tractate. The Heavenly Circuit
14Third Tractate. Are The Stars Causes?
15Fourth Tractate. Matter In Its Two Kinds
16Fifth Tractate. On Potentiality And Actuality
17Sixth Tractate. Quality And Form-Idea
18Seventh Tractate. On Complete Transfusion
19Eighth Tractate. Why Distant Objects Appear Small
20Ninth Tractate. Against Those That Affirm The Creator Of The Kosmos And The Kosmos Itself To Be Evil: [Generally Quoted As "Against The Gnostics"]
21THE THIRD ENNEAD
22First Tractate. Fate
23Second Tractate. On Providence (1)
24Third Tractate. On Providence (2)
25Fourth Tractate. Our Tutelary Spirit
26Fifth Tractate. On Love
27Sixth Tractate. The Impassivity Of The Unembodied
28Seventh Tractate. Time And Eternity
29Eighth Tractate. Nature Contemplation And The One
30Ninth Tractate. Detached Considerations
31THE FOURTH ENNEAD
32First Tractate. On The Essence Of The Soul (1)
33Second Tractate. On The Essence Of The Soul (2)
34Third Tractate. Problems Of The Soul (1)
35Fourth Tractate. Problems Of The Soul (2)
36Fifth Tractate. Problems Of The Soul (3). [Also Entitled "On Sight"]
37Sixth Tractate. Perception And Memory
38Seventh Tractate. The Immortality Of The Soul
39Eighth Tractate. The Soul's Descent Into Body
40Ninth Tractate. Are All Souls One?
41THE FIFTH ENNEAD
42First Tractate. The Three Initial Hypostases
43Second Tractate. The Origin And Order Of The Beings. Following On The First
44Third Tractate. The Knowing Hypostases And The Transcendent
45Fourth Tractate. How The Secondaries Rise From The First: And On The One
46Fifth Tractate. That The Intellectual Beings Are Not Outside The Intellectual-Principle: And On The Nature Of The Good
47Sixth Tractate. That The Principle Transcending Being Has No Intellectual Act. What Being Has Intellection Primally And What Being Has It Secondarily
48Seventh Tractate. Is There An Ideal Archetype Of Particular Beings?
49Eighth Tractate. On The Intellectual Beauty
50Ninth Tractate. The Intellectual-Principle, The Ideas, And The Authentic Existence
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