# Enneads

An audiobook by Plotinus and Porphyry, read by LibriVox volunteers (54 h 12 min, English).

The six Enneads (ΕΝΝΕΑΔΕΣ) are the collected writings of the Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus (ΠΛΩΤΙΝΟΣ) arranged by his student Porphyry (ΠΟΡΦΥΡΙΟΣ) into fifty-four books with each Ennead containing nine. The translator Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie arranged these books chronologically rather than according to Porphyry's numeration. This recording is organized according to Porphyry's numeration with Roman numerals indicating the Ennead and Hindu-Arabic numerals indicating the book e.g. VI.9 would be the ninth book of the sixth Ennead. A hyperlinked table of contents at Volume 1 Page 3 of the gutenberg.org text will enable you to jump to the specific Ennead if you wish to read along with the recording. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)

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## Chapters

0. Forward (3:30): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_00_plotinus_64kb.mp3
1. I.1 The Organism and the Self (Vol.4 Pg.1191) (34:14): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_01_plotinus_64kb.mp3
2. I.2 Concerning Virtue (Vol.1 Pg.256) (27:48): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_02_plotinus_64kb.mp3
3. I.3 Of Dialectic, or the Means of Raising the Soul to the Intelligible World (Vol.1 Pg.269) (15:40): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_03_plotinus_64kb.mp3
4. I.4 Whether Animals May Be Termed Happy (Vol.4 Pg.1019) (50:49): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_04_plotinus_64kb.mp3
5. I.5 Does Happiness Increase With Time? (Vol.3 Pg.684) (13:40): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_05_plotinus_64kb.mp3
6. I.6 Of Beauty (Vol.1 Pg.40) (35:54): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_06_plotinus_64kb.mp3
7. I.7 Of the First Good, and of the Other Goods (Vol.4 Pg.1208) (7:35): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_07_plotinus_64kb.mp3
8. I.8 Of the Nature and Origin of Evils (Vol.4 Pg.1142) (52:23): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_08_plotinus_64kb.mp3
9. I.9 Of Suicide (Vol.1 Pg.243) (3:27): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_09_plotinus_64kb.mp3
10. II.1 Of the Heaven (Vol.3 Pg.813) (32:30): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_10_plotinus_64kb.mp3
11. II.2 About the Movement of the Heavens (Vol.1 Pg.227) (14:15): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_11_plotinus_64kb.mp3
12. II.3 Whether Astrology is of any Value (Vol.4 Pg.1165) (53:36): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_12_plotinus_64kb.mp3
13. II.4 Of Matter (Vol.1 Pg.197) (55:18): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_13_plotinus_64kb.mp3
14. II.5 Of the Aristotelian Distinction Between Actuality and Potentiality (Vol.2 Pg.341) (20:39): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_14_plotinus_64kb.mp3
15. II.6 Of Essence and Being (Vol.1 Pg.245) (14:46): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_15_plotinus_64kb.mp3
16. II.7 About Mixture to the Point of Total Penetration (Vol.3 Pg.691) (13:08): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_16_plotinus_64kb.mp3
17. II.8 Of Sight; or of Why Distant Objects Seem Small (Vol.3 Pg.680) (8:01): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_17_plotinus_64kb.mp3
18. II.9a That the Creator and the World are Not Evil (Vol.2 Pg.599) (47:43): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_18_plotinus_64kb.mp3
19. II.9b Against the Gnostics (Vol.2 Pg.620) (41:41): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_19_plotinus_64kb.mp3
20. III.1 Concerning Fate (Vol.1 Pg.86) (31:52): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_20_plotinus_64kb.mp3
21. III.2a Of Providence (Vol.4 Pg.1042) (41:16): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_21_plotinus_64kb.mp3
22. III.2b Of Providence (Vol.4 Pg.1059) (37:45): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_22_plotinus_64kb.mp3
23. III.3 Continuation of That on Providence (Vol.4 Pg.1077) (31:20): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_23_plotinus_64kb.mp3
24. III.4 Of Our Individual Guardian (Vol.1 Pg.233) (23:52): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_24_plotinus_64kb.mp3
25. III.5 Of Love, or "Eros" (Vol.4 Pg.1122) (44:06): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_25_plotinus_64kb.mp3
26. III.6a Of the Impassibility of Incorporeal Entities (Vol.2 Pg.350) (46:09): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_26_plotinus_64kb.mp3
27. III.6b Soul and Matter (Vol.2 Pg.368) (43:26): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_27_plotinus_64kb.mp3
28. III.7a Of Eternity (Vol.3 Pg.985) (29:14): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_28_plotinus_64kb.mp3
29. III.7b Of Time (Vol.3 Pg.996) (46:26): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_29_plotinus_64kb.mp3
30. III.8 Of Nature, Contemplation and Unity (Vol.2 Pg.531) (51:11): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_30_plotinus_64kb.mp3
31. III.9 Fragments About the Soul, the Intelligence, and the Good (Vol.1 Pg.220) (17:04): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_31_plotinus_64kb.mp3
32. IV.1 Of the Being of the Soul (Vol.1 Pg.100) (3:09): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_32_plotinus_64kb.mp3
33. IV.2 How the Soul Mediates Between Indivisible and Divisible Essence (Vol.1 Pg.276) (16:21): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_33_plotinus_64kb.mp3
34. IV.3a Are Not All Souls Parts or Emanations of a Single Soul? (Vol.2 Pg.387) (40:41): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_34_plotinus_64kb.mp3
35. IV.3b Why and How do Souls Descend into Bodies? (Vol.2 Pg.403) (34:16): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_35_plotinus_64kb.mp3
36. IV.3c Does the Soul Employ Discursive Reason While Discarnate? (Vol.2 Pg.416) (54:45): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_36_plotinus_64kb.mp3
37. IV.4a Questions About the Soul (Vol.2 Pg.441) (1:00:26): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_37_plotinus_64kb.mp3
38. IV.4b Questions About the Soul (Vol.2 Pg.465) (1:04:57): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_38_plotinus_64kb.mp3
39. IV.4c Questions About the Soul (Vol.2 Pg.490) (1:00:26): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_39_plotinus_64kb.mp3
40. IV.5 About the Process of Vision and Hearing (Vol.2 Pg.514) (44:16): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_40_plotinus_64kb.mp3
41. IV.6 Of Sensation and Memory (Vol.3 Pg.829) (16:58): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_41_plotinus_64kb.mp3
42. IV.7a Of the Immortality of the Soul (Vol.1 Pg.56) (47:22): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_42_plotinus_64kb.mp3
43. IV.7b Of the Immortality of the Soul (Vol.1 Pg.74) (30:11): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_43_plotinus_64kb.mp3
44. IV.8 On the Descent of the Soul Into the Body (Vol.1 Pg.119) (37:39): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_44_plotinus_64kb.mp3
45. IV.9 Whether All Souls Form a Single One (Vol.1 Pg.139) (20:24): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_45_plotinus_64kb.mp3
46. V.1 The Three Principal Hypostases, or Forms of Existence (Vol.1 Pg.173) (52:10): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_46_plotinus_64kb.mp3
47. V.2 Of Generation, and of the Order of things that Rank Next After the First (Vol.1 Pg.193) (8:38): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_47_plotinus_64kb.mp3
48. V.3a The Self-Consciousnesses, and What is Above Them (Vol.4 Pg.1090) (43:09): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_48_plotinus_64kb.mp3
49. V.3b The Self-Consciousnesses, and What is Above Them (Vol.4 Pg.1106) (40:47): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_49_plotinus_64kb.mp3
50. V.4 How What is After the First Proceeds Therefrom; of the One (Vol.1 Pg.134) (12:27): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_50_plotinus_64kb.mp3
51. V.5 That Intelligible Entities Are Not External to the Intelligence of the Good (Vol.2 Pg.575) (1:00:25): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_51_plotinus_64kb.mp3
52. V.6 The Superessential Principle Does Not Think (Vol.2 Pg.333) (20:18): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_52_plotinus_64kb.mp3
53. V.7 Do Ideas of Individuals Exist (Vol.1 Pg.251) (11:27): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_53_plotinus_64kb.mp3
54. V.8 Concerning Intelligible Beauty (Vol.2 Pg.551) (1:03:28): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_54_plotinus_64kb.mp3
55. V.9 Of Intelligence, Ideas and Essence (Vol.1 Pg.102) (42:08): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_55_plotinus_64kb.mp3
56. VI.1a Of the Ten Aristotelian Categories (Vol.3 Pg.837) (1:01:49): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_56_plotinus_64kb.mp3
57. VI.1b Of the Ten Aristotelian Categories (Vol.3 Pg.860) (48:19): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_57_plotinus_64kb.mp3
58. VI.1c Criticism of the Stoic Categories (Vol.3 Pg.878) (29:07): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_58_plotinus_64kb.mp3
59. VI.2a The Categories of Plotinos (Vol.3 Pg.891) (54:16): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_59_plotinus_64kb.mp3
60. VI.2b The Categories of Plotinos (Vol.3 Pg.911) (58:25): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_60_plotinus_64kb.mp3
61. VI.3a Plotinos's Own Sense-Categories (Vol.3 Pg.933) (42:30): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_61_plotinus_64kb.mp3
62. VI.3b Plotinos's Own Sense-Categories (Vol.3 Pg.948) (49:57): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_62_plotinus_64kb.mp3
63. VI.3c Plotinos's Own Sense-Categories (Vol.3 Pg.967) (44:34): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_63_plotinus_64kb.mp3
64. VI.4a The One Identical Essence is Everywhere Entirely Present (Vol.2 Pg.285) (40:40): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_64_plotinus_64kb.mp3
65. VI.4b The One Identical Essence is Everywhere Entirely Present (Vol.2 Pg.300) (35:21): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_65_plotinus_64kb.mp3
66. VI.5 The One Identical Essence is Everywhere Entirely Present (Vol.2 Pg.314) (51:09): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_66_plotinus_64kb.mp3
67. VI.6a Of Numbers (Vol.3 Pg.643) (48:32): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_67_plotinus_64kb.mp3
68. VI.6b Of Numbers (Vol.3 Pg.661) (48:28): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_68_plotinus_64kb.mp3
69. VI.7a How Ideas Multiply (Vol.3 Pg.697) (39:43): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_69_plotinus_64kb.mp3
70. VI.7b How Ideas Multiply (Vol.3 Pg.712) (37:54): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_70_plotinus_64kb.mp3
71. VI.7c A Study of the Good (Vol.3 Pg.726) (1:01:52): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_71_plotinus_64kb.mp3
72. VI.7d A Study of the Good (Vol.3 Pg. 749) (1:01:11): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_72_plotinus_64kb.mp3
73. VI.8a Of the Will of the One (Vol.3 Pg.773) (51:58): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_73_plotinus_64kb.mp3
74. VI.8b Of the Will of the One (Vol.3 Pg.793) (49:48): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_74_plotinus_64kb.mp3
75. VI.9a Of the Good and the One (Vol.1 Pg.147) (38:22): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_75_plotinus_64kb.mp3
76. VI.9b Of the Good and the One (Vol.1 Pg.161) (28:08): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_76_plotinus_64kb.mp3
77. Life of Plotinos by Porphyry I-VII (Vol.1 Pg.5) (28:54): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_77_plotinus_64kb.mp3
78. Life of Plotinos by Porphyry VIII-XVIII (Vol.1 Pg.15) (26:00): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_78_plotinus_64kb.mp3
79. Life of Plotinos by Porphyry XIX-XXIV (Vol.1 Pg.25) (35:03): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_79_plotinus_64kb.mp3
80. Life of Plotinos by Eunapius & Suidas (Vol.1 Pg.39) (2:29): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_80_plotinus_64kb.mp3
81. Porphyry's Commentary - Part 1 (Vol.4 Pg.1215) (47:10): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_81_plotinus_64kb.mp3
82. Porphyry's Commentary - Part 2 (Vol.4 Pg.1233) (55:53): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_82_plotinus_64kb.mp3
83. Psychological Fragments (Vol.4 Pg. 1254) (32:10): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_83_plotinus_64kb.mp3
84. PS1 Development in the Teachings of Plotinos (Vol.4 Pg.1269) (50:29): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_84_plotinus_64kb.mp3
85. PS2 Platonism: Significance, Progress, and Results (Vol.4 Pg. 1288) (19:45): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_85_plotinus_64kb.mp3
86. PS3 Plotinos's View of Matter (Vol.4 Pg.1296) (9:56): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_86_plotinus_64kb.mp3
87. PS4 Plotinos's Creation of the Trinity (Vol.4 Pg.1300) (18:51): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_87_plotinus_64kb.mp3
88. PS5 Resemblances to Christianity (Vol.4 Pg.1307) (13:48): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_88_plotinus_64kb.mp3
89. PS6 Plotinos's Indebtedness to Numenius (Vol.4 Pg. 1313) (33:37): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_89_plotinus_64kb.mp3
90. PS7 Value of Plotinos (Vol.4 Pg.1327) (18:42): https://archive.org/download/enneads_-plotinus_1806_librivox/enneads_90_plotinus_64kb.mp3