{"product_id":"the-enneadsisbn-9780140445206","title":"The Enneads","description":"Here is a highly original synthesis of Platonism, mystic passion, ideas from Greek philosophy, and variants of the Trinity and other central tenets of Christian doctrine by the brilliant thinker who has had an immense influence on mystics and religious writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.The Enneads       Stephen MacKenna: A Biographical Sketch\u003cbr\u003eExtracts from the Explanatory Matter in the First Edition\u003cbr\u003eThe Place of Plotinus in the History of Thought by Paul Henry, S. J.\u003cbr\u003ePlotinus: An Introduction\u003cbr\u003ePorphyry: On the Life of Plotinus and the Arrangement of His Work\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe First Ennead\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst: The Animate and the Man\u003cbr\u003eSecond: The Virtues\u003cbr\u003eThird: Dialectic\u003cbr\u003eFourth: Happiness\u003cbr\u003eSixth: Beauty\u003cbr\u003eEighth: The Nature and Source of Evil\u003cbr\u003eNinth: \"The Reasoned Dismissal\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Second Ennead\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThird: Are the Stars Causes?\u003cbr\u003eFourth: Matter\u003cbr\u003eNinth: Against the Gnostics; or Against Those That Affirm the Creator of the Cosmos and the Cosmos Itself to be Evil\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Third Ennead\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSecond: Providence: First Treatise\u003cbr\u003eThird: Providence: Second Treatise\u003cbr\u003eFourth: Our Tutelary Spirit\u003cbr\u003eFifth: Love\u003cbr\u003eSixth: The Impassivity of the Unembodied\u003cbr\u003eSeventh: Time and Eternity\u003cbr\u003eEighth: Nature, Contemplation, and the One\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Fourth Ennead\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThird: Problems of the Soul (I)\u003cbr\u003eFourth: Problems of the Soul (II)\u003cbr\u003eEighth: The Soul's Descent into Body\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Fifth Ennead\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst: The Three Initial Hypostases\u003cbr\u003eSecond: The Origin and Order of the Beings following on the First\u003cbr\u003eThird: The Knowing Hypostases and the Transcendant\u003cbr\u003eFourth: How the Secondaries rise from The First; and on The One\u003cbr\u003eFifth: That the Intellectual Beings are not outside the Intellectual-Principle: and on The Nature of the Good\u003cbr\u003eSeventh: Is there an Ideal Archetype of Particular Beings?\u003cbr\u003eEighth: On the Intellectual Beauty\u003cbr\u003eNinth: The Intellectual Principle, the Ideas, and the Authentic Existence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Sixth Ennead\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFourth: On the Integral Omnipresence of the Authentic Existent (I)\u003cbr\u003eFifth: On the Integral Omnipresence of the Authentic Existent (II)\u003cbr\u003eSeventh: How the Multiplicity of the Ideal-Forms came into Being; and on The Good\u003cbr\u003eEighth: On Free Will and the Will of the One\u003cbr\u003eNinth: On the Good, or the One\u003cbr\u003eAppendix I: The Chronological Order of the Tractates\u003cbr\u003eAppendix II: Index of Platonic References\u003cbr\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Dillon\u003c\/b\u003e is Regius Professor of Greek at Trinity College in Dublin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299987738853,"sku":"NP9780140445206","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140445206_e7e4819b-f077-4870-a1f0-08f0d2c6a7c5.jpg?v=1730743322","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-enneadsisbn-9780140445206","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}