Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4 / In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods
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The first possibility is that there is a cause both for the things that become, and those that are; the cause of the former being their becoming, and that of the latter, their existence. Again, neither of them may have a cause. Or, in both cases, some may have a cause, and some not. Further, those that become might have a cause, while, of these that exist, some might partly have a cause. Contrariwise, all things that exist may have a cause, while of those that become, parts may have a cause, and part not. Last, none of the things that become might have any cause.EXCEPT THE FIRST, ALL THINGS AR...
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- FIRST ENNEAD, BOOK FOUR. Whether Animals May Be Termed Happy.1
- DEFINITIONS OF HAPPINESS.
- WHETHER PLANTS MAY BE TERMED HAPPY.
- LIVING WELL NEED NOT BE EXTENDED EVEN TO ALL ANIMALS.
- EVEN THEY WHO DEFINE HAPPINESS AS SENSATION SEEK HIGHER HAPPINESS.
- NOT EVEN REASON IS A SUFFICIENT EXPLANATION OF LIVING WELL.
- HAPPINESS DEPENDS EXCLUSIVELY ON INTERIOR CHARACTERISTICS.
- THE GOOD CONSISTS IN INTELLIGENCE.
- HAPPINESS MUST BE SOMETHING HUMAN.
- WE KNOW WE HAVE REACHED HAPPINESS WHEN WE NO MORE DESIRE ANYTHING.
- MEN MUST SEEK THEIR HAPPINESS IN THAT OF EACH OF THE PARTS OF THEIR NATURE.
- NECESSARY THINGS ARE THOSE WHOSE POSSESSION IS UNCONSCIOUS.
- EVILS WHICH THE WISE MAN CAN SUPPORT WITHOUT DISTURBANCE OF HIS HAPPINESS.
- NO MISFORTUNE IS TOO GREAT TO BE CONQUERED BY VIRTUE.
- WISDOM IS NONE THE LESS HAPPY FOR BEING UNCONSCIOUS OF ITSELF.
- THOUGH HAPPINESS IS ACTUALIZED WISDOM WE DO NOT LOSE IT WHEN UNCONSCIOUS. WE DO NOT LOSE IT BECAUSE WE OURSELVES ARE ACTUALIZATIONS OF INTELLIGENCE.
- INTELLIGENCE IS NOT DEPENDENT ON CONSCIOUSNESS.
- THE ONLY OBJECT OF THE VIRTUOUS WILL IS THE CONVERSION OF THE SOUL TOWARDS HERSELF.
- THE PLEASURES CLAIMED FOR THE VIRTUOUS MAN ARE OF A HIGHER KIND.
- IN THE VIRTUOUS MAN THE PART THAT SUFFERS IS THE HIGHER; THEREFORE HE REALLY DOES NOT SUFFER AS DO THOSE WHO SUFFER CHIEFLY PHYSICALLY.
- MAN BECOMES WISE BY ESTABLISHING A SPIRITUAL PREPONDERANCE.
- TWO WISE MEN WILL BE EQUALLY HAPPY, IN SPITE OF DIFFERENCES OF FORTUNE.
- THE WISE MAN REMAINS UNATTACHED.
- THIRD ENNEAD, BOOK TWO. Of Providence.20
- EPICURUS TAUGHT CHANCE AND THE GNOSTICS AN EVIL CREATOR.
- PARTICULAR AND UNIVERSAL PROVIDENCE ASSUMED AS PREMISES.
- PROVIDENCE IS NOT PARTICULAR BECAUSE THE WORLD HAD NO BEGINNING.
- HOW INTELLIGENCE CONTINUES TO MAKE THE WORLD SUBSIST.
- THE SENSE-WORLD CREATED NOT BY REFLECTION, BUT BY SELF-NECESSITY.
- THE WORLD SHOULD NOT BE BLAMED FOR ITS IMPERFECTIONS.
- THE WORLD'S TESTIMONY TO ITS CREATOR.
- OPPOSITION AMONG INANIMATE BEINGS.
- OPPOSITION AMONG ANIMALS.
- OPPOSITION AMONG HUMANS.
- LACK OF HAPPINESS SHOULD BE BLAMED ON THE SOUL THAT DOES NOT DESERVE IT.
- IN SPITE OF APPARENT MISFORTUNE TO THE GOOD NO HARM CAN HAPPEN TO THEM.
- THE SLAVERY OF THE GOOD AND VICTORY OF THE EVIL SEEM TO ACCUSE PROVIDENCE.
- PERFECTION MUST NOT BE SOUGHT IN THINGS MINGLED WITH MATTER.
- EVIL IS ONLY A LOWER FORM OF GOOD.
- IT IS A MATTER OF FAITH THAT PROVIDENCE EMBRACES EVERYTHING HERE BELOW, EVEN THE MISFORTUNES OF THE JUST.
- HOW SENSE-OBJECTS ARE NOT EVIL.
- THE GOOD MAY NEGLECT NATURAL LAWS WHICH CARRY REWARDS.
- DEATH IS BETTER THAN DISHARMONY WITH THE LAWS OF THE UNIVERSE.
- PROVIDENCE SHOULD NOT BE EXTENDED TO THE POINT OF SUPPRESSING OUR OWN INITIATIVE.
- THOUGH MEN ARE ONLY MEDIOCRE THEY ARE NEVER ABANDONED BY PROVIDENCE.
- IT IS RIDICULOUS TO COMPLAIN OF THE LOWER NATURE OF ANIMALS.
- IF UNJUST ACTS ARE PRODUCED ASTROLOGICALLY THEN DIVINE REASON IS TO BLAME.
- EVEN INVOLUNTARINESS DOES NOT AFFECT SPONTANEITY THAT IS RESPONSIBLE.
- EVEN THE SHADOWS ARE NECESSARY TO THE PERFECTION OF A PICTURE.
- IT IS REASONABLE FOR THE REASON TO ASSIGN SOULS TO DIFFERENT RANKS IN THE UNIVERSE.
- DIVINE JUSTICE EXTENDS ALSO INTO PAST AND FUTURE.
- THE CREATOR IS SO WISE THAT ALL COMPLAINTS AMOUNT TO GROTESQUENESS.
- OBJECTION OF INTERNECINE WAR AMONG ANIMALS AND MEN.
- RESPONSIBILITY CANNOT BE SHIFTED FROM REASON WHICH IS RESPONSIBLE.
- NECESSITY OF INTERNECINE WARFARE.
- ALL THESE CHANGES OF FORTUNE AFFECT ONLY THE OUTER MAN IN ANY CASE.
- DOES THIS POINT OF VIEW DESTROY SIN AND JUSTICE?
- THIS PROBLEM SOLVED BY REASON BEING DERIVED FROM INTELLIGENCE.
- THE UNITY OF REASON IS CONSTITUTED BY THE CONTRARIES IT CONTAINS.
- THE WHOLE IS GOOD THOUGH COMPOSED OF GOOD AND EVIL PARTS.
- FOUNDED ON THE PUN ON LOGOS, AS CHARACTER, ROLE AND REASON, THE EVILS ARE SHOWN TO PLAY THEIR PART BADLY IN THE DRAMA OF LIFE.
- LIKE GOOD AND BAD ACTORS, SOULS ARE PUNISHED AND REWARDED BY THE MANAGER.
- THE SOUL MUST FIT HERSELF TO HER SPECIAL PART IN THE GREAT SCHEME.
- UNIVERSAL REASON TRIES TO PATCH UP "GAGS" BY UNDISCIPLINED ACTORS.
- THIS ILLUSTRATION OF DRAMA ALLOWS BOTH GOOD AND EVIL TO BE ASCRIBED TO REASON.
- INTRODUCTION TO THE NEXT BOOK.
- THIRD ENNEAD, BOOK THREE. Continuation of That on Providence.
- SOULS SHOW KINSHIP TO WORLD-SOUL BY FIDELITY TO THEIR OWN NATURE.
- APPARENT CHANCE REALLY IS THE PLAN OF A DIVINE GENERAL PROVIDENCE.
- WE CANNOT QUESTION OUR ORDER IN THE HIERARCHY OF NATURE.
- THE CAUSE OF OUR IMPERFECTIONS IS DISTANCE FROM THE SUPREME.
- DOUBLENESS OF SOUL, REASONS AND PROVIDENCE.
- MEN'S BETTER NATURE IS NOT DOMINANT BECAUSE OF THEIR SUB-CONSCIOUS NATURE.
- HUMAN CHARACTER MAY BE RESULT OF FORMER LIVES.
- CAUSES OF DETERIORATION.
- THIS PROVIDENCE IS THE NORMATIVE, CURATIVE, SANATIVE ELEMENT OF LIFE.
- THE PLANS OF PROVIDENCE LIKENED TO THE FOREKNOWLEDGE OF A PHYSICIAN.
- PREDICTION DOES NOT WORK BY PROVIDENCE, BUT BY ANALOGY.
- FACTS OF LIFE ARE LETTERS THAT CAN BE READ.
- ANALOGY DEMANDED BY THE UNITY OF GOD.
- EVIL IS INSEPARABLE FROM THE GOOD.
- THE PARABLE OF THE VINE AND THE BRANCHES.
- FIFTH ENNEAD, BOOK THREE. The Self-Consciousnesses, and What is Above Them.97
- IS KNOWLEDGE DEPENDENT ON THE COMPOSITENESS OF THE KNOWER?
- A SIMPLE PRINCIPLE CAN HAVE SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS.
- THE SENSE-POWER OF THE SOUL DEALS ONLY WITH EXTERIOR THINGS.
- FUNCTIONS OF THE DISCURSIVE REASON OF THE SOUL.
- CAN DISCURSIVE REASON TURN UPON ITSELF?
- THE HIGHEST PART OF DISCURSIVE REASON RECEIVES IMPRESSIONS FROM INTELLIGENCE.
- WHY DISCURSIVE REASON SHOULD BELONG TO THE SOUL RATHER THAN TO INTELLIGENCE.
- WE CAN THINK IN CONFORMITY WITH INTELLIGENCE IN TWO WAYS.
- MAN IS SELF-CONSCIOUS BY BECOMING INTELLIGENCE.
- INTELLIGENCE IS NOT DIVISIBLE; AND, IN ITS EXISTENCE, IS IDENTICAL WITH THOUGHT.
- THOUGHT IS IDENTICAL WITH THE INTELLIGIBLE WHICH IS AN ACTUALIZATION.
- SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS MORE PERFECT IN INTELLIGENCE THAN IN THE SOUL.
- THE SOUL MUST BE TAUGHT SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS BY CONVERSION.
- WHATEVER INTELLIGENCE MAY BE THOUGHT TO DO, IT MUST KNOW ITSELF.
- WHAT INTELLIGENCE LOOKS LIKE IN THE INTELLIGIBLE.
- WE CAN REACH A CONCEPTION OF INTELLIGENCE BY STRIPPING THE SOUL OF EVERY FACULTY EXCEPT HER INTELLECTUAL PART.
- ELEVATION OF THE SOUL MAY BE GRADUAL, IF UNABLE TO ATTAIN IMMEDIATE ELEVATION.
- THE TRANSCENDENT FIRST PRINCIPLE HAS NO NEED OF SEEING ITSELF.
- THE CONTEMPLATION OF INTELLIGENCE DEMANDS A HIGHER TRANSCENDING UNITY.
- HOW INTELLIGENCE BECAME MANIFOLD.
- THE ONE IS THE PRINCIPLE OF ALL WITHOUT BEING LIMITED THEREBY.
- NO MANIFOLDNESS OF ANY KIND CAN EXIST IN THE FIRST.
- PERMANENT ACTUALIZATIONS ARE HYPOSTASES.
- THE SUPREME IS ABSOLUTELY INEFFABLE.
- WE COME SUFFICIENTLY NEAR TO HIM TO TALK ABOUT HIM.
- RADIATION OF MULTIPLE UNITY.
- THE SUPREME PRODUCES MANIFOLDNESS BECAUSE OF ITS CATEGORIES.
- THE GOOD MUST BE SUPERIOR TO INTELLIGENCE AND LIFE.
- THE SUPREME AS SUPERESSENTIAL AND SUPEREXISTENT.
- ECSTASY IS INTELLECTUAL CONTACT WITH SUDDEN LIGHT.
- THIRD ENNEAD, BOOK FIVE.114 Of Love, or "Eros."
- LOVE AS GOD, GUARDIAN AND PASSION.
- PASSIONAL LOVE IS TWOFOLD.
- LOVE IS RECOGNITION OF HIDDEN AFFINITY.
- EARTHLY BEAUTY IS AN IMAGE OF INTELLIGIBLE BEAUTY.
- BEAUTY IS IMMORTAL.
- PASSIONAL LOVE MAY BE ELEVATING, THOUGH OPEN TO MISLEADING TEMPTATIONS.
- THE PLATONIC MYTH OF LOVE.
- INTERPRETATION OF THE PLATONIC MYTH.
- LOVE, LIKE HIGHER SOUL, OR LIGHT, IS INSEPARABLE FROM ITS SOURCE.
- WHO CELESTIAL VENUS IS.
- LOVE POSSESSES DIVINE BEING.
- CELESTIAL LOVE MUST ABIDE IN THE INTELLIGIBLE WITH THE CELESTIAL SOUL.
- THERE IS A LOWER LOVE, CORRESPONDING TO THE WORLD-SOUL.
- ALL SOULS HAVE THEIR LOVE, WHICH IS THEIR GUARDIAN.
- THE HIGHER LOVE IS DEITY, THE LOWER IS A GUARDIAN.
- IT IS AN ERROR TO CONSIDER THE LOVE AS IDENTICAL WITH THE WORLD.
- ALL GUARDIANS ARE BORN OF NEED AND ABUNDANCE.
- DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DEITIES AND GUARDIANS.
- A GUARDIAN IS THE VESTIGE OF A SOUL DESCENDED INTO THE WORLD.
- WHY ALL GUARDIANS ARE NOT LOVES.
- WHY THE GUARDIANS ARE NOT FREE FROM MATTER.
- SOUL IS A MIXTURE OF REASON AND INDETERMINATION.
- LOVE IS A GADFLY.
- GUARDIANS, AS WELL AS MEN, ARE URGED BY DIVINE DISCONTENT.
- RIGHT THOUGHTS POSSESS REAL EXISTENCE.
- JUPITER, THE GREAT CHIEF, OR THIRD GOD, IS THE SOUL, OR VENUS.
- JUPITER'S GARDEN IS THE FRUITFUL REASON THAT BEGETS EVERY OBJECT.
- THE OBJECT OF MYTHS IS TO ANALYSE; AND TO DISTINGUISH.
- SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PLATONIC MYTH OF THE GARDEN OF JUPITER.
- SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PLATONIC MYTH OF THE BIRTH OF LOVE.
- LOVE IS BOTH MATERIAL AND A GUARDIAN.
- FIRST ENNEAD, BOOK EIGHT. Of the Nature and Origin of Evils.156
- QUESTIONS TO BE DISCUSSED.
- A. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EVIL. A DEFINITION OF EVIL BY CONTRAST WITH THE GOOD.
- NATURE OF DIVINE INTELLIGENCE.
- NATURE OF THE UNIVERSAL SOUL.
- EVIL EXISTS AS A CONSEQUENCE OF THE DERIVATIVE GOODS OF THE THIRD RANK.
- NATURE OF EVIL.
- EVIL POSSESSES A LOWER FORM OF BEING.
- EVIL AS INFINITE AND FORMLESSNESS IN ITSELF.
- THE PRIMARY EVIL IS EVIL IN ITSELF.
- MATTER AS THE SECONDARY EVIL.
- THE SOUL IS NOT EVIL BY HERSELF, BUT MAY DEGENERATE BY LOOKING AT DARKNESS.
- PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EVIL FOR THE SOUL.
- RELATION BETWEEN EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL EVIL.
- IN WHAT SENSE EVILS ARE UNIVERSAL AND UNAVOIDABLE.
- EVIL IS NOT GOOD'S QUALITATIVE, BUT ONLY FIGURATIVE ANTAGONIST.
- GOOD IMPLIES EVIL BECAUSE MATTER IS NECESSARY TO THE WORLD.
- EXISTENCE OF EVIL IS NECESSARY AS LAST MATERIAL DEGREE OF BEING.
- MATTER IS CAUSE OF EVIL, EVEN IF CORPOREAL.
- MASTERY OF THESE CORPOREAL DISPOSITIONS IS NOT EASY.
- DEFINITION OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EVIL.
- B. BY WHAT PART OF OUR NATURE WE COME TO KNOW EVIL. HOW THE SOUL COMES TO KNOW VICE.184
- HOW TO SEE MATTER: BY DIALECTIC ABSTRACTION.
- MATTER IS BOTH WITHOUT QUALITIES AND EVIL.
- MATTER AS DEPRIVATION IS STILL WITHOUT QUALITIES.
- MATTER MAY EXIST AND YET BE EVIL.
- THE SOUL CANNOT POSSESS EVIL WITHIN HERSELF.
- RELATIVE PRIVATION IS IMPOSSIBLE.
- EVIL AS AN OBSTACLE TO THE SOUL.
- WEAKNESS OF THE SOUL AS AN EXPLANATION OF EVIL.
- WEAKNESS OF THE SOUL OCCURS CHIEFLY IN SOULS FALLEN INTO MATTER.
- THE FALL OF THE SOUL AS DESCENT INTO MATTER.
- NO MORE THAN THE EXISTENCE OF THE GOOD CAN THAT OF MATTER BE DENIED.
- EXPLANATION OF THE EVIL OF THE SOUL.
- SECOND ENNEAD, BOOK THREE. Whether Astrology is of any Value.198
- OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE STARS.
- VARIOUS PRETENSIONS OF ASTROLOGY.
- ARE STARS INANIMATE?
- ARE STARS ANIMATED?
- COULD "CARDINAL POINTS" OR "DECLINATIONS" POSSESS ANY INFLUENCE?
- ABSURDITY OF "ASPECTS," AND "HOUSES."
- THE RELATIONS OF SATURN AND MARS QUITE ILLOGICAL.
- FABULOUS INFLUENCES OF THE MOON.
- JUPITER, VENUS, AND MERCURY ALSO CONSIDERED ASTROLOGICALLY.
- THE UNIVERSE AS A SINGLE HARMONY.207
- ABSURDITY OF VARIOUS ASTROLOGICAL THEORIES.
- THE STARS ARE CHANGING SIGNS BETRAYING THE UNIVERSAL CONSPIRACY OF PURPOSE.
- THERE IS A NATURAL LAW WHICH DIRECTS THE SOUL.
- WEALTH, POVERTY, AND VICES ARE THE RESULT OF EXTERNAL CIRCUMSTANCES.
- SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SPINDLE OF THE FATES.
- WHICH OF OUR TWO SOULS IS THE GENUINE INDIVIDUALITY?
- NUMENIAN DOUBLENESS, MIXTURE, AND DIVISIBLE SOUL.
- STARS ANNOUNCE EVENTS BECAUSE OF THE SOUL'S MANY IMPERFECTIONS, AND ACCIDENTS.
- THE INFLUENCES OF THE STARS DEGENERATE AS THEY REACH US.
- MINGLED STAR ACTION ONLY PROMOTES OR RETARDS PROCESSES ALREADY NATURAL.
- DISTINCTION BETWEEN WHAT IS AND WHAT IS NOT PRODUCED BY THE STARS.
- THE STARS AS THE FOLLOWERS OF THE UNIVERSAL KING.
- MEN AS SOULS OF THE SECOND RANK.
- ANY OCCURRENCE MAY BE DUE TO MANY DIFFERENT CAUSES.
- A SOUL'S DESTINY DEPENDS ON THE CONDITION OF THE UNIVERSE AT BIRTH.
- HOW SOME MEN MAY MASTER THEIR FATE: BY SELF-VICTORY.
- EXACT PSYCHOLOGY AT THE ROOT OF PHILOSOPHY.
- IS THE UNIVERSAL SOUL CREATIVE, BUT NOT PRESERVATIVE?
- DETERMINISM IMPLIES DEGENERATION OF RACES.
- THE SOUL DOES NOT CAUSE PASSIONS, WHICH ARISE FROM THE SEMINAL REASONS.
- THE METHOD OF CREATION.
- EVILS ARE NECESSARY TO THE PERFECTION OF THE UNIVERSE.
- PICTURE OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE.
- FIRST ENNEAD, BOOK ONE. The Organism and the Self.270
- PSYCHOLOGIC DISTINCTIONS IN SOUL.
- THE SOUL AS A COMPOSITE AGGREGATE.
- THE SOUL IS NOT ESSENCE.
- THE SOUL USES THE BODY AS TOOL.
- SEPARATION OF SOUL FROM BODY.
- PRIMITIVE RELATION BETWEEN SOUL AND BODY.
- CONSEQUENCES OF MIXTURE OF SOUL AND BODY.
- MIXTURE OF SOUL AND BODY.
- ARISTOTELIAN HYPOTHESIS CONSIDERED.
- THE LIVING ORGANISM.
- REFUTATION OF THE (JAMES-LANGE) THEORY OF EMOTIONS.
- NOT ALL AFFECTIONS COMMON TO SOUL AND BODY.
- DESIRE, NOT SIMULTANEOUS WITH APPETITE.
- SOUL AND BODY, BY UNITING, FORM AN INDIVIDUAL AGGREGATE.
- SENSATION IMPLIES FEELING SOUL.
- SOUL-LIGHT FORMS ANIMAL NATURE.
- RELATION OF ANIMAL TO HUMAN NATURE.
- EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL SENSATION.
- DISTINCTION IN THE WHOLE ORGANISM.
- INDIVIDUAL RELATION WITH COSMIC INTELLECT.
- INDIVIDUAL RELATION WITH GOD AND COSMIC SOUL.
- SOUL GIVES LIFE TO PSYCHOLOGIC ELEMENTS.
- ORIGIN OF EVILS, SINS, AND ERRORS.
- INTELLECT DID NOT GRASP THE OBJECT ITSELF.
- TRUE CONCEPTION ACT OF INTUITION.
- MODIFICATIONS DERIVE FROM FOREIGN SOURCES.
- DISTINCTIONS IN "WE" AND THE "REAL MAN."
- REAL MAN DIFFERS FROM BODY.
- FUNCTION OF THE COMMON PART.
- THE SUPERIOR PRINCIPLE NOT ALWAYS UTILIZED.
- THE ANIMATING PRINCIPLE OF ANIMALS.
- THE SOUL BOTH IMPASSIBLE AND PUNISHABLE.
- PHILOSOPHIC SEPARATION REFERS NOT ONLY TO BODY, BUT TO PASSIBLE ACCRETIONS.
- HOW THE ANIMAL NATURE IS GENERATED.
- THE DOUBLE HERCULES SYMBOLIZES THE SOUL.
- RELATION OF THE "WE" AND THE "SOUL."
- INTELLIGENCE NOT OURS, BUT WE.
- FIRST ENNEAD, BOOK SEVEN. Of the First Good, and of the Other Goods.317
- THE SUPREME GOOD AS END OF ALL OTHER GOODS.
- PARTICIPATION IN GOOD. TWO METHODS.
- PERMANENCE THE CHIEF NOTE OF ABSOLUTE GOOD.
- ALL THINGS DEPEND ON THE GOOD BY UNITY, ESSENCE, AND QUALITY.
- THERE IS NO UNALLOYED EVIL FOR THE LIVING BEING.
- PORPHYRY, COMMENTARIES OR OUTLINES OF THE ENNEADS OF PLOTINOS. PSYCHOLOGICAL FRAGMENTS BY PORPHYRY, JAMBLICHUS, NEMESIUS, AND AMMONIUS SACCAS.
- CONCORDANCE OF THE NUMBERS OF THE 44 PARAGRAPHS OF PORPHYRY'S PRINCIPLES OF THE THEORY OF INTELLIGIBLES IN THE EDITIONS OF BOUILLET, CREUZER, AND HOLSTENIUS
- PRINCIPLES OF THE THEORY OF THE INTELLIGIBLES, BY PORPHYRY.321 FIRST ENNEAD,322 BOOK TWO. Of Virtues.
- FIRST ENNEAD, BOOK NINE. Of Suicide.
- OF THE SEPARATION OF THE SOUL AND BODY.
- SECOND ENNEAD, BOOK FOUR. Of Matter.
- OF THE CONCEPTION OF MATTER (10).
- THIRD ENNEAD, BOOK SIX. Of the Impassibility of Incorporeal Things.
- OF THE INCORPOREAL (3).
- OF THE IMPASSIBILITY OF THE SOUL.
- OF THE IMPASSIBILITY OF MATTER.
- OF THE PASSIBILITY OF THE BODY (8–19).
- THIRD ENNEAD, BOOK EIGHT. Of Nature, Contemplation, and of the One.
- OF THOUGHT.
- OF LIFE.
- OF THE ONE.
- FOURTH ENNEAD, BOOK TWO. Of the Nature of the Soul.
- FOURTH ENNEAD, BOOK THREE. Problems About the Soul.
- UNION OF THE SOUL AND THE BODY.
- OF THE DESCENT OF THE SOUL INTO THE BODY, AND OF THE SPIRIT.
- FOURTH ENNEAD, BOOK SIX. Of Sensation and Memory.
- OF SENSATION.
- OF MEMORY.
- FIFTH ENNEAD, BOOK TWO. Of Generation and of the Order of Things that Follow the First.
- OF THE PROCESSION OF BEINGS.
- OF THE RETURN OF BEINGS TO THE FIRST.
- FIFTH ENNEAD, BOOK THREE. Of the Hypostases that Mediate Knowledge, and of the Superior Principle.
- INTELLIGENCE KNOWS ITSELF BY A CONVERSION TO HERSELF.
- THE ACTUALIZATION OF INTELLIGENCE IS ETERNAL AND INDIVISIBLE.
- INTELLIGENCE IS MANIFOLD.
- SIXTH ENNEAD, BOOK FOUR. The One and Identical Being Is Everywhere Present As a Whole.
- OF THE INCORPOREAL.
- RELATION BETWEEN THE INCORPOREAL AND THE CORPOREAL.
- THE INCORPOREAL HAS NO EXTENSION.
- RELATION OF INDIVIDUAL SOULS TO THE UNIVERSAL SOUL.
- SIXTH ENNEAD, BOOK FIVE. The One and Identical Being is Everywhere Present In Its Entirety.345
- THE INCORPOREAL BEING IS ENTIRE IN EVERYTHING.
- DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE INTELLIGIBLE BEING, AND THE BEING OF SENSATION.
- THE DIVINITY IS EVERYWHERE AND NOWHERE.
- THE HUMAN SOUL IS UNITED TO UNIVERSAL BEING BY ITS NATURE.
- PSYCHOLOGICAL FRAGMENTS.
- A. On the Faculties of the Soul, by Porphyry.356 OBJECT OF THE BOOK.
- DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SENSATION AND INTELLIGENCE.
- OF ASSENT.
- OF THE PARTS OF THE SOUL.
- OF THE DIFFERENCE OF THE PARTS, AND OF THE FACULTIES OF THE SOUL.
- B. Jamblichus.362
- C. Nemesius.363
- D. Jamblichus.365
- E. Ammonius Saccas. A. FROM NEMESIUS.366 ON THE IMMATERIALITY OF THE SOUL.
- UNION OF THE SOUL AND THE BODY.
- B. NOTICE OF AMMONIUS BY HIEROCLES.371
- PLOTINIC STUDIES IN SOURCES, DEVELOPMENT AND INFLUENCE. I. DEVELOPMENT IN THE TEACHINGS OF PLOTINOS.
- II. PLATONISM: SIGNIFICANCE, PROGRESS AND RESULTS.
- III. PLOTINOS'S VIEW OF MATTER.
- IV. PLOTINOS'S CREATION OF THE TRINITY.
- V. RESEMBLANCES TO CHRISTIANITY.
- TRINITARIAN SIGNIFICANCE OF PLOTINOS.
- NON-CHRISTIAN ORIGIN OF PARALELLISMS TO CHRISTIANITY.
- OLD TESTAMENT REFERENCES.
- NEW TESTAMENT REFERENCES.
- THEOLOGICAL REFERENCES.
- NOTE
- VII. PLOTINOS'S INDEBTEDNESS TO NUMENIUS.
- 1. HISTORICAL RELATIONS BETWEEN NUMENIUS AND PLOTINOS.
- 2. NUMENIUS AS FATHER OF NEO-PLATONISM.
- 3. CONTRAST BETWEEN THEM.
- 4. DIRECT INDEBTEDNESS OF PLOTINOS TO NUMENIUS.
- 5. UNCERTAIN INDEBTEDNESS OF PLOTINOS.
- 6. PARTICULAR SIMILARITIES.
- 7. SIMILARITIES APPLIED DIFFERENTLY.
- 8. PHILOSOPHICAL RELATIONS BETWEEN NUMENIUS AND PLOTINOS.
- 9. PYTHAGOREAN SIMILARITIES.
- 10. PLATONIC TRACES.
- 11. VARIOUS SIMILARITIES.
- VALUE OF PLOTINOS.
- IMPORTANCE IN THE PAST.
- CULTURAL IMPORTANCE.
- PERSONAL VALUE.
- PERSONAL LIMITATIONS.
- RELIANCE ON PUNNING.
- SELECTED MAXIMS
- FOOTNOTES
- CONCORDANCE TO PLOTINOS.
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