The Plotinus Reader
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The Plotinus Reader provides a generous selection of translations from the fifty-four treatises that together make up the Enneads of Plotinus, a central work in the history of philosophy. They were prepared by a team of specialists in ancient philosophy and edited by Lloyd P. Gerson. Based on the definitive critical edition of the Greek along with decades of additional textual criticism by many scholars, these translations aim to provide a readable, accurate rendering of Plotinus’s often very difficult language. Included are extensive references to Plotinus’s sources, scores of cross-references, and an extensive glossary of technical terms.
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The Plotinus Reader provides a generous selection of translations from the fifty-four treatises that together make up the Enneads of Plotinus, a central work in the history of philosophy. They were prepared by a team of specialists in ancient philosophy and edited by Lloyd P. Gerson. Based on the definitive critical edition of the Greek along with decades of additional textual criticism by many scholars, these translations aim to provide a readable, accurate rendering of Plotinus’s often very difficult language. Included are extensive references to Plotinus’s sources, scores of cross-references, and an extensive glossary of technical terms.
Contents:
Introduction
List of Enneads as Arranged by Porphyry and the Corresponding Chronological Order
Enneads in Chronological Order and the Corresponding Order of Porphyry
Translations:
- 1.1 (53) What Is the Living Being and What Is the Human Being? (complete)
- 1.2 (19) On Virtues (complete)
- 1.4 (46) On Happiness §§1–4
- 1.6 (1) On Beauty (complete)
- 1.8 (51) On What Evils Are and Where They Come From §§1–5
- 3.8 (30) On Nature, Contemplation, and the One (complete)
- 4.1 (21) On the Substantiality of the Soul 1 (complete)
- 4.2 (4) On the Substantiality of the Soul 2 (complete)
- 4.7 (2) On the Immortality of the Soul §§1–2; 9–15
- 4.8 (6) On the Descent of Souls into Bodies (complete)
- 5.1 (10) On the Three Primary Hypostases (complete)
- 5.2 (11) On the Generation and Order of the Things Which Come after the First (complete)
- 5.3 (49) On the Knowing Hypostasis and on That Which Is Transcendent §§1–9; 13–17
- 5.5 (32) That the Intelligibles Are Not outside the Intellect, and on the Good §§1–2
- 6.4 (22) That Being, One and Identical, Is Simultaneously Everywhere Whole 1 §§1–11
- 6.7 (38) How the Multiplicity of the Ideas Came to Exist and on the Good §§1–23; 37–42
- 6.8 (39) On the Voluntary and the One’s Wishing §§1–8; 12–16
- 6.9 (9) On the Good or the One §§1–3; 11
Appendix of Classical Sources
English Glossary of Important Terms
About the Author:
Lloyd P. Gerson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.
