Society & Culture
This fifth of the six Enneads (ΕΝΝΕΑΔΕΣ) written by Plotinus (ΠΛΩΤΙΝΟΣ); arranged by Porphyry (ΠΟΡΦΥΡΙΟΣ) and translated by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie contains the following nine books: 1. The Three Principal Hypostases, or Forms of Existence (0:00:00) 2. Of Generation, and of the Order of things that Rank Next After the First (0:51:53) 3. The Self-Consciousnesses, and What is Above Them (1:00:08) 4. How What is After the First Proceeds Therefrom; of the One (2:22:52) 5. That Intelligible Entities Are Not External to the Intelligence of the Good (2:34:54) 6. The Superessential Principle Does Not Think (3:34:46) 7. Do Ideas of Individuals Exist (3:54:35) 8. Concerning Intelligible Beauty (4:05:30) 9. Of Intelligence, Ideas and Essence (5:08:23) Painting: The Angel of Death by Émile Jean-Horace Vernet. Recording and cover design by Geoffrey Edwards are in the public domain.