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The six Enneads
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Encyclopædia Britannica
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[1955, c1952]
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English
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First Ennead: Tractate: Animate and the man
On virtue
On dialectic (the upward way)
On true happiness
Happiness and extension of time
Beauty
On the primal good and secondary forms of good (otherwise, "On happiness")
On the nature and source of evil
"Reasoned dismissal"
Second ennead: On the kosmos or the heavenly system
Heavenly circuit
Are the stars causes?
Matter in its two kinds
On potentiality and actuality
Quality and form-idea
On complete transfusion
Why distant objects appear small
Against those that affirm the creator of the kosmos and the kosmos itself to be evil (generally quoted as "Against the Gnostics")
Third ennead: Fate
On providence (1)
On providence (2)
Our tutelary spirit
On love
Impassivity of the unembodied
Time and eternity
Nature contemplation and the One
Detached considerations
Fourth ennead: On the essence of the soul (1)
On the essence of the soul (2)
Problems of the soul (1)
Problems of the soul (2)
Problems of the soul (3) (also entitled "On sight")
Perception and memory
Immortality of the soul
Soul's descent into the body
Are all souls one?
Fifth ennead: Three initial hypostases
Origin and order of the beings following on the first
Knowing hypostases and the transcendent
How the secondaries arise from the first: and on the One
That the intellectual beings are not outside the intellectual principle: and on the nature of the good
That the principle transcending being has no intellectual act; what being has intellection primally and what has it secondarily
Is there an ideal archetype of particular beings?
On the intellectual beauty
Intellectual principle, the ideas, and authentic existence
Sixth ennead: On the kinds of being (1)
On the kinds of being (2)
On the kinds of being (3)
On the integral omnipresence of the authentic existent (1)
On the integral omnipresence of the authentic existent (2)
On numbers
How the multiplicity of Ideal-forms came into being: and upon the good
On free-will and the will of the One
On the good, or the One.
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