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frontmatter

contents

foreword

preface to the second edition

extracts from the explanatory matter in the first edition

introduction: 'plotinus' place in the history of thought': by paul henry, s.j.

porphyry's life of plotinus

the first ennead

I. the animate and the man

II. the virtues

III. dialectic

IV. happiness

V. happiness and extension of time

VI. beauty

VII. the primal good and secondary forms of good

VIII. the nature and source of evil

IX. 'the reasoned dismissal'

the second ennead

I. the heavenly system

II. the heavenly circuit

III. are the stars causes?

IV. matter

V. potentiality and actuality

VI. quality

VII. 'complete transfusion'

VIII. why distant objects appear small

IX. against the gnostics

the third ennead

I. fate

II. providence (i)

II. providence (ii)

IV. our tutelary spirit

V. love

VI. the impassivity of the unembodied

VII. time and eternity

VIII. nature, contemplation, and the one

IX. detached considerations

the fourth ennead

I. on the essence of the soul (i)

II. on the essence of the soul (ii)

III. problems of the soul (i)

IV. problems of the soul (ii)

V. problems of the soul (iii); or, on sight

VI. perception and memory

VII. the immortality of the soul

VIII. the soul's descent into the body

IX. are all souls one?

the fifth ennead

I. the three initial hypostases

II. the origin and order of the beings following on the first

III. the knowing hypostases and the transcendent

IV. how the secondaries rise from the first; and on the one

V. that the intellectual beings are not outside the intellectual principle; and on the nature of the good

VI. that the principle transcending being has no intellectual act.

VII. is there an ideal archetype of particular beings?

VIII. on the intellectual beauty

IX. the intellectual-principle, the ideas, and the authentic existence

the sixth ennead

I. on the kinds of being (i)

II. on the kinds of being (ii)

III. on the kinds of being (iii)

IV. on the integral omnipresence of the authentic existant (i)

V. on the integral omnipresence of the authentic existant (ii)

VI. on numbers

VII. how the multiciplicty of the ideal-forms came into being; and on the good

VIII. on free will, and the will of the one

IX. on the good, or the one

endmatter

appendices

I. select bibliography

II. the chronological order

III. sources of quotations

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The Second Ennead

V. Potentiality and Actuality

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