Plotinus was a philosopher of the Roman Empire in the 3rd century CE and is considered the founder of the Neoplatonist school of thought. He was likely born in Egypt and moved to Rome around 245 CE, where he taught and wrote for the rest of his life. He attracted a circle of students and enjoyed imperial patronage.
His entire philosophical work consists of a series of treatises. After his death, his student Porphyry collected and organised these writings into a single, structured work titled the Enneads. Plotinus synthesized earlier Greek philosophy into a new and influential system.
His thought centres on a hierarchy of reality emanating from a supreme source, called the One — the in — from which proceed nous, and the ordering patterns that shape matter. His philosophy became the dominant intellectual framework of late antiquity. It profoundly influenced later pagan philosophers and had a major impact on the development of Christian, Jewish, and Islamic theology. The Enneads stand at the head of Neoplatonic philosophy.
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Enneads
Ἐννεάδες
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Enneads: Treatise 1.1 (What Is the Living Thing, and What Is Man?)
Ἐννεάδες, Τί τὸ Ζῷον καὶ τίς ὁ Ἄνθρωπος
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Enneads: Treatise 1.2 (On Aretai)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ Ἀρετῶν
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Enneads: Treatise 1.3 (On Dialectic)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ Διαλεκτικῆς
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Enneads: Treatise 1.4 (On Well-Being)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ Εὐδαιμονίας
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Enneads: Treatise 1.5 (On Whether Well-Being Increases with Time)
Ἐννεάδες, Εἰ τὸ Εὐδαιμονεῖν Χρόνῳ παρατείνεται
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Enneads: Treatise 1.6 (On Beauty)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ τοῦ Καλοῦ
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Enneads: Treatise 1.7 (On the First Good and the Other Goods)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ τοῦ Πρώτου Ἀγαθοῦ καὶ τῶν Ἄλλων Ἀγαθῶν
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Enneads: Treatise 1.8 (On What Evils Are and Whence They Come)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ τοῦ τίνα καὶ πόθεν τὰ Κακά
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Enneads: Treatise 1.9 (On Reasoned Departure from Life)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ Εὐλόγου Ἐξαγωγῆς
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Enneads: Treatise 2.1 (On the Heavens)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ τοῦ Οὐρανοῦ
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Enneads: Treatise 2.2 (On the Heavenly Circuit)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ τῆς Κυκλοφορίας
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Enneads: Treatise 2.3 (Whether the Stars Are Causes)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ τοῦ εἰ ποιεῖ τὰ Ἄστρα
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Enneads: Treatise 2.4 (On Matter)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ Ὕλης
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Enneads: Treatise 2.5 (On What Exists Potentially and Actually)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ τοῦ Δυνάμει καὶ Ἐνεργείᾳ
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Enneads: Treatise 2.6 (On Poiotēs and Form)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ Ποιότητος καὶ Εἴδους
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Enneads: Treatise 2.7 (On Complete Mixture)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ τῆς διʼ Ὅλων Κράσεως
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Enneads: Treatise 2.8 (On Sight, or Why Distant Objects Appear Small)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ Ὁράσεως ἢ πῶς τὰ Πόρρω Ὁρώμενα Μικρὰ φαίνεται
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Enneads: Treatise 2.9 (Against the Gnostics)
Ἐννεάδες, Πρὸς τοὺς Γνωστικούς
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Enneads: Treatise 3.1 (On Heimarmenē)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ Εἱμαρμένης
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Enneads: Treatise 3.2 (On Pronoia I)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ Προνοίας Πρῶτον
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Enneads: Treatise 3.3 (On Pronoia II)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ Προνοίας Δεύτερον
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Enneads: Treatise 3.4 (On Our Allotted Daimōn)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ τοῦ Εἰληχότος ἡμᾶς Δαίμονος
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Enneads: Treatise 3.5 (On Love)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ Ἔρωτος
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Enneads: Treatise 3.6 (On the Impassibility of the Bodiless)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ τῆς Ἀπαθείας τῶν Ἀσωμάτων
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Enneads: Treatise 3.7 (On Eternity and Time)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ Αἰῶνος καὶ Χρόνου
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Enneads: Treatise 3.8 (On Physis, Contemplation and the One)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ Φύσεως καὶ Θεωρίας καὶ τοῦ Ἑνός
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Enneads: Treatise 3.9 (Miscellaneous Investigations)
Ἐννεάδες, Ἐπισκέψεις Διάφοροι
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Enneads: Treatise 4.1 (On the Ousia of the Psychē II)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ Οὐσίας Ψυχῆς Δεύτερον
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Enneads: Treatise 4.2 (On the Ousia of the Psychē I)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ Οὐσίας Ψυχῆς Πρῶτον
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Enneads: Treatise 4.3 (On Difficulties about the Psychē I)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ Ψυχῆς Ἀποριῶν Πρῶτον
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Enneads: Treatise 4.4 (On Difficulties about the Psychē II)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ Ψυχῆς Ἀποριῶν Δεύτερον
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Enneads: Treatise 4.5 (On Difficulties about the Psychē III, or On Sight)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ Ψυχῆς Ἀποριῶν Τρίτον ἢ περὶ Ὄψεως
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Enneads: Treatise 4.6 (On Sense-Perception and Memory)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ Αἰσθήσεως καὶ Μνήμης
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Enneads: Treatise 4.7 (On the Immortality of the Psychē)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ Ἀθανασίας Ψυχῆς
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Enneads: Treatise 4.8 (On the Descent of the Psychē into Bodies)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ τῆς εἰς τὰ Σώματα Καθόδου τῆς Ψυχῆς
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Enneads: Treatise 4.9 (Whether All Psychai Are One)
Ἐννεάδες, Εἰ αἱ Πᾶσαι Ψυχαὶ Μία
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Enneads: Treatise 5.1 (On the Three Primary Hypostases)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ τῶν Τριῶν Ἀρχικῶν Ὑποστάσεων
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Enneads: Treatise 5.2 (On the Origin and Order of the Things after the First)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ Γενέσεως καὶ Τάξεως τῶν μετὰ τὸ Πρῶτον
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Enneads: Treatise 5.3 (On the Knowing Hypostases and What Is Beyond)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ τῶν Γνωριστικῶν Ὑποστάσεων καὶ τοῦ ἐπέκεινα
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Enneads: Treatise 5.4 (How What Is after the First Comes from the First, and on the One)
Ἐννεάδες, Πῶς ἀπὸ τοῦ Πρώτου τὸ μετὰ τὸ Πρῶτον, καὶ περὶ τοῦ Ἑνός
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Enneads: Treatise 5.5 (That the Intelligibles Are Not outside the Nous, and on the Good)
Ἐννεάδες, Ὅτι οὐκ ἔξω τοῦ Νοῦ τὰ Νοητὰ καὶ περὶ Τἀγαθοῦ
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Enneads: Treatise 5.6 (On the Fact that What Lies beyond What Is Does Not Think)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ τοῦ τὸ ἐπέκεινα τοῦ Ὄντος μὴ νοεῖν, καὶ τί τὸ πρώτως νοοῦν καὶ τί τὸ δευτέρως
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Enneads: Treatise 5.7 (On Whether There Are Ideas of Particulars)
Ἐννεάδες, Εἰ καὶ τῶν Καθέκαστά εἰσιν Ἰδέαι
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Enneads: Treatise 5.8 (On Intelligible Beauty)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ τοῦ Νοητοῦ Κάλλους
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Enneads: Treatise 5.9 (On Nous, the Forms and What Is)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ Νοῦ καὶ τῶν Ἰδεῶν καὶ τοῦ Ὄντος
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Enneads: Treatise 6.1 (On the Kinds of What Is I)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ τῶν Γενῶν τοῦ Ὄντος Πρῶτον
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Enneads: Treatise 6.2 (On the Kinds of What Is II)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ τῶν Γενῶν τοῦ Ὄντος Δεύτερον
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Enneads: Treatise 6.3 (On the Kinds of What Is III)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ τῶν Γενῶν τοῦ Ὄντος Τρίτον
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Enneads: Treatise 6.4 (On the Presence of What Is, One and the Same, Everywhere as a Whole I)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ τοῦ τὸ Ὂν Ἓν καὶ Ταὐτὸ Ὂν ἅμα πανταχοῦ εἶναι Ὅλον Πρῶτον
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Enneads: Treatise 6.5 (On the Presence of What Is, One and the Same, Everywhere as a Whole II)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ τοῦ τὸ Ὂν Ἓν καὶ Ταὐτὸ Ὂν ἅμα πανταχοῦ εἶναι Ὅλον Δεύτερον
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Enneads: Treatise 6.6 (On Numbers)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ Ἀριθμῶν
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Enneads: Treatise 6.7 (How the Multitude of the Forms Came into Being, and on the Good)
Ἐννεάδες, Πῶς τὸ Πλῆθος τῶν Ἰδεῶν ὑπέστη, καὶ περὶ Τἀγαθοῦ
1008 passages
Enneads: Treatise 6.8 (On the Voluntary and the Wish of the One)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ τοῦ Ἑκουσίου καὶ Θελήματος τοῦ Ἑνός
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Enneads: Treatise 6.9 (On the Good or the One)
Ἐννεάδες, Περὶ Τἀγαθοῦ ἢ τοῦ Ἑνός
315 passages
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