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The '''''Enneads''''' by Plotinus

==Topics==
*[[Mysticism in the Enneads|Mysticism]] (Mystical Union with the One)
*[[Metaphysics in the Enneads|Metaphysics]] (Ontogenesis)

==Outline==

===By Ennead===
Topics of each Ennead (roughly):
#Ethics
#Physics
#Time, etc.
#The Soul (psyche; ψυχή)
#The Intellect (nous; νοῦς)
#The One ([to] hen; [τὸ] ἕν)

===By treatise===
Treatises covering [[Mysticism in the Enneads|mysticism]] and [[Metaphysics in the Enneads|metaphysics]] are highlighted in '''bold'''. The ''[[Großschrift]]'' treatises are underlined.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Treatise !! [[Order of the Enneads|Order]] !! Topic
|-
| 1.1 || 53 || What Is the Living Being and What Is the Human Being?
|-
| 1.2 || 19 || On Virtues
|-
| 1.3 || 20 || On Dialectic
|-
| 1.4 || 46 || On Happiness
|-
| 1.5 || 36 || On Whether Happiness Increases with Time
|-
| 1.6 || 1 || '''On Beauty'''
|-
| 1.7 || 54 || On the Primary Good and on the Other Goods
|-
| 1.8 || 51 || On What Evils Are and Where They Come From
|-
| 1.9 || 16 || On Exiting from the Body
|-
| 2.1 || 40 || On the Cosmos
|-
| 2.2 || 14 || On the Motion of Heaven
|-
| 2.3 || 52 || On Whether the Stars Are Causes
|-
| 2.4 || 12 || '''On Matter'''
|-
| 2.5 || 25 || On ‘Potentially’ and ‘Actually’
|-
| 2.6 || 17 || On Substance or On Quality
|-
| 2.7 || 37 || On Complete Blending
|-
| 2.8 || 35 || On Seeing, or On How It Is That Distant Things Appear Small
|-
| 2.9 || 33 || Against the Gnostics
|-
| 3.1 || 3 || On Fate
|-
| 3.2–3 || 47, 48 || On Providence
|-
| 3.4 || 15 || On Our Allotted Daemon
|-
| 3.5 || 50 || On Love
|-
| 3.6 || 26 || On the Impassibility of Things without Bodies
|-
| 3.7 || 45 || On Eternity and Time
|-
| 3.8 || 30 || '''On Nature, Contemplation, and the One'''
|-
| 3.9 || 13 || Various Considerations
|-
| 4.1 || 21 || On the Substantiality of the Soul
|-
| 4.2 || 4 || On the Substantiality of the Soul
|-
| 4.3–5 || 27, 28, 29 || On Problems of the Soul 1–3
|-
| 4.6 || 41 || On Sense Perception and Memory
|-
| 4.7 || 2 || On the Immortality of the Soul
|-
| 4.8 || 6 || '''On the Descent of Souls into Bodies'''
|-
| 4.9 || 8 || On Whether All Souls Are One
|-
| 5.1 || 10 || '''On the Three Primary Hypostases'''
|-
| 5.2 || 11 || '''On the Generation and Order of the Things Which Come after the First'''
|-
| 5.3 || 49 || '''On the Knowing Hypostasis and on That Which Is Transcendent'''
|-
| 5.4 || 7 || '''How That Which Is after the First Comes from the First, and on the One'''
|-
| 5.5 || 32 || '''That the Intelligibles Are Not outside the Intellect, and on the Good'''
|-
| 5.6 || 24 || '''On the Fact That That Which Transcends Being Does Not Think and on What the Primary Thinking Is and What Is Secondary'''
|-
| 5.7 || 18 || On Whether or Not There Are Ideas of Individuals
|-
| 5.8 || 31 || '''On the Intelligible Beauty'''
|-
| 5.9 || 5 || On Intellect, Ideas, and Being
|-
| 6.1–3 || 42, 43, 44 || On the Genera of Being 1–3
|-
| 6.4–5 || 22, 23 || That Being, One and Identical, Is Simultaneously Everywhere Whole 1–2
|-
| 6.6 || 34 || On Numbers
|-
| 6.7 || 38 || '''How the Multiplicity of the Ideas Came to Exist, and on the Good'''
|-
| 6.8 || 39 || '''On the Voluntary, and the One’s Wishing'''
|-
| 6.9 || 9 || '''On the Good or the One'''
|}

==See also==
*[[Glossary of Greek terms in the Enneads]]
*[[Order of the Enneads]]
*''[[Großschrift]]''

==References==
<references/>
*Gerson, Lloyd P. (trans.) (2018). ''The Enneads''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-00177-0.

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