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Enneads
Ἐννεάδες
The complete works of Plotinus. Porphyry arranged them from the simplest subject to the most exalted: Ennead I deals with ethics and man; II with the physical world; III with providence, fate, time and love; IV with the soul; V with Intellect; VI with the kinds of being and the One. Each treatise carries in brackets its number in the chronological order that Porphyry himself preserved in the Life (4–6), which allows three periods to be distinguished: treatises 1–21 (up to 263), 22–45 (263–268) and 46–54 (268–270). It is the source of ancient Neoplatonism and one of the foundational texts of Western mysticism.
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Authorship note
The fifty-four treatises are by Plotinus; the division into six groups of nine (enneads), the thematic order, many of the titles and the splitting of some long treatises are the work of his pupil Porphyry, who published them around 301. Eusebius of Caesarea and the scholia know remains of another edition, by Eustochius, now lost.
Editions and translations
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English
The Enneads
Cambridge University Press, 2018
Translation: George Boys-Stones, John M. Dillon, Lloyd P. Gerson, R. A. H. King, Andrew Smith y James Wilberding
ISBN 9781107001770
Edición de Lloyd P. Gerson; primera traducción inglesa completa nueva desde Armstrong.
The Enneads (abridged)
Penguin Classics, 1991
Translation: Stephen MacKenna
ISBN 9780140445206
Selección con introducción y notas de John Dillon.
Plotinus VI: Ennead VI.1–5 (Loeb Classical Library 445)
Harvard University Press, 1988
Translation: A. H. Armstrong
ISBN 9780674994904
Bilingüe griego-inglés.
Plotinus VII: Ennead VI.6–9 (Loeb Classical Library 468)
Harvard University Press, 1988
Translation: A. H. Armstrong
ISBN 9780674995154
Bilingüe griego-inglés.
Plotinus IV: Ennead IV (Loeb Classical Library 443)
Harvard University Press, 1984
Translation: A. H. Armstrong
ISBN 9780674994881
Bilingüe; el registro de Open Library no indica el volumen: por la secuencia de ISBN corresponde al vol. IV.
Plotinus V: Ennead V (Loeb Classical Library 444)
Harvard University Press, 1984
Translation: A. H. Armstrong
ISBN 9780674994898
Bilingüe griego-inglés.
Plotinus III: Ennead III (Loeb Classical Library 442)
Harvard University Press, 1967
Translation: A. H. Armstrong
ISBN 9780674994874
Bilingüe griego-inglés.
Plotinus II: Ennead II (Loeb Classical Library 441)
Harvard University Press, 1966
Translation: A. H. Armstrong
ISBN 9780674994867
Bilingüe griego-inglés.
Plotinus I: Porphyry on Plotinus; Ennead I (Loeb Classical Library 440)
Harvard University Press, 1966
Translation: A. H. Armstrong
ISBN 9780674994843
Bilingüe griego-inglés; Open Library registra la reimpresión de 1969.
Plotinus
Plotinos: Complete Works, in Chronological Order
The Conscious LibraryPlotinos: Complete Works, in Chronological Order
Platonist Press; Project Gutenberg, 1918
Translation: Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie
Traducción completa en orden cronológico. Dominio público.
Plotinus
Plotinus (MacKenna), vols. 1–5
The Conscious LibraryPlotinus (MacKenna), vols. 1–5
Medici Society; Wikisource, 1917
Translation: Stephen MacKenna (y B. S. Page en el vol. 5)
Vols. 1–4 de dominio público; vol. 5 (Enéada VI) solo en EE. UU.
Español
Porfirio, Vida de Plotino; Plotino, Enéadas I–II
Gredos (Biblioteca Clásica Gredos, 57), 1982
Translation: Jesús Igal
ISBN 9788424908607
Introducciones, traducción y notas.
Plotino, Enéadas III–IV
Gredos (Biblioteca Clásica Gredos, 88), 1985
Translation: Jesús Igal
ISBN 9788424910044
Introducciones, traducción y notas. ISBN visto en el catálogo de Marcial Pons y en catálogos universitarios.
Plotino, Enéadas V–VI
Gredos (Biblioteca Clásica Gredos, 256), 1998
Translation: Jesús Igal
ISBN 9788424919610
Publicado póstumamente (Igal murió en 1986).
Plotinus
Enéadas (Obras maestras del pensamiento)
The Conscious LibraryEnéadas (Obras maestras del pensamiento)
Losada, 2006
ISBN 9789500393911
Traductor no consignado en el registro de Open Library.
Français
Traités 1–6
Flammarion (GF), 2002
Translation: Luc Brisson y Jean-François Pradeau (dir.)
ISBN 9782080711557
Primer volumen de la traducción francesa completa en orden cronológico (2002–2010).
Other works by Plotinus
- Life of Plotinus (by Porphyry) · 301
- Ennead I.1 [53]: What is the living being, and what is man? · 268
- Ennead I.2 [19]: On virtues · 253
- Ennead I.3 [20]: On dialectic · 253
- Ennead I.4 [46]: On happiness (well-being) · 268
- Ennead I.5 [36]: Whether happiness increases with time · 263
- Ennead I.6 [1]: On beauty · 253
- Ennead I.7 [54]: On the primal good and the other goods · 268
- Ennead I.8 [51]: On what are and whence come evils · 268
- Ennead I.9 [16]: On going out of the body · 253
- Ennead II.1 [40]: On the cosmos (or on heaven) · 263
- Ennead II.2 [14]: On the movement of heaven · 253
- Ennead II.3 [52]: Whether the stars are causes · 268
- Ennead II.4 [12]: On matter (or on the two matters) · 253
- Ennead II.5 [25]: On what exists potentially and what actually · 263
- Ennead II.6 [17]: On quality and form (or on substance and quality) · 253
- Ennead II.7 [37]: On complete transfusion · 263
- Ennead II.8 [35]: On sight, or how distant objects appear small · 263
- Ennead II.9 [33]: Against the Gnostics · 263
- Ennead III.1 [3]: On fate · 253
- Ennead III.2 [47]: On providence, I · 268
- Ennead III.3 [48]: On providence, II · 268
- Ennead III.4 [15]: On our allotted guardian spirit · 253
- Ennead III.5 [50]: On love · 268
- Ennead III.6 [26]: On the impassibility of the bodiless · 263
- Ennead III.7 [45]: On eternity and time · 263
- Ennead III.8 [30]: On nature, contemplation and the One · 263
- Ennead III.9 [13]: Various considerations · 253
- Ennead IV.1 [21]: On the essence of the soul, I · 253
- Ennead IV.2 [4]: On the essence of the soul, II · 253
- Ennead IV.3 [27]: Problems of the soul, I · 263
- Ennead IV.4 [28]: Problems of the soul, II · 263
- Ennead IV.5 [29]: Problems of the soul, III, or on sight · 263
- Ennead IV.6 [41]: On sense-perception and memory · 263
- Ennead IV.7 [2]: On the immortality of the soul · 253
- Ennead IV.8 [6]: On the descent of the soul into bodies · 253
- Ennead IV.9 [8]: Whether all souls are one · 253
- Ennead V.1 [10]: On the three primary hypostases · 253
- Ennead V.2 [11]: On the origin and order of the beings after the First · 253
- Ennead V.3 [49]: On the knowing hypostases and that which is beyond · 268
- Ennead V.4 [7]: How what comes after the First derives from the First, and on the One · 253
- Ennead V.5 [32]: That the intelligibles are not outside the Intellect, and on the Good · 263
- Ennead V.6 [24]: That what is beyond being does not think · 263
- Ennead V.7 [18]: Whether there are Forms of individuals · 253
- Ennead V.8 [31]: On the intelligible beauty · 263
- Ennead V.9 [5]: On Intellect, the Forms and Being · 253
- Ennead VI.1 [42]: On the kinds of being, I · 263
- Ennead VI.2 [43]: On the kinds of being, II · 263
- Ennead VI.3 [44]: On the kinds of being, III · 263
- Ennead VI.4 [22]: On the presence of being, one and the same, everywhere as a whole, I · 263
- Ennead VI.5 [23]: On the presence of being, one and the same, everywhere as a whole, II · 263
- Ennead VI.6 [34]: On numbers · 263
- Ennead VI.7 [38]: How the multitude of the Forms came into being, and on the Good · 263
- Ennead VI.8 [39]: On free will and the will of the One · 263
- Ennead VI.9 [9]: On the Good or the One · 253
- Notes of the lectures (by Amelius, lost) · 260
- Eustochius' edition (lost)
- Theology of Aristotle · 840
Sources
- Porfirio. Vida de Plotino y orden de sus libros (Περὶ τοῦ Πλωτίνου βίου καὶ τῆς τάξεως τῶν βιβλίων αὐτοῦ). Texto griego en la ed. de R. Volkmann (Teubner, 1883), en Wikisource en griego; trad. inglesa de Stephen MacKenna (1917), en Wikisource en inglés.
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