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Enneads
Overview
The Enneads (; Ancient Greek: Ἐννεάδες), fully The Six Enneads, is the collection of writings of the philosopher Plotinus, edited and compiled by his student Porphyry (c. AD 270). Plotinus was a student of Ammonius Saccas, and together they were founders of Neoplatonism. His work, through Augustine of Hippo, the Cappadocian Fathers, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and several subsequent Christian and Muslim thinkers, has greatly influenced Western and Near-Eastern thought.
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We have gathered the Fourth and Fifth Ennead into a single volume. Of the Sixth Ennead, we have formed a separate volume, so that all the writings of Plotinos might be divided into three parts, of which the first contains three Enneads, the second two; and the third, a single Ennead. Here are the books that belong to the Sixth Ennead, and to the Third Volume. 1. Of the Kinds of Existence, the First, 42. 2. Of the…
Plotinus, Plotinos
The chapter “XXIV. CONTENTS OF THE VARIOUS ENNEADS.” is titled for Enneads; the author is tied to Enneads in the knowledge graph.
The ancient philosophers found in mythology many ideas which, if not originally derived from nature, were easily transferred to her—such, for example, as love or hate, corresponding to attraction or repulsion; or the conception of necessity allied both to the regularity and irregularity of nature; or of chance, the nameless or unknown cause; or of justice, symbolizing the law of compensation; are of the Fates and…
Plato, Timaeus
Close in meaning to Enneads; the term itself is not named.
In a poetic page of the Enneades, the philosopher Plotinus, interpreter and continuator of Plato, explains to us how men come to life. Nature, he says, sketches the living bodies, but sketches them only. Left to her own forces she can never complete the task. On the other hand, souls inhabit the world of Ideas.
Henri Bergson, Dreams
Close in meaning to Enneads; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Enneads
Related ideas
- Avicenna
- Treatise
- Islamic philosophy
- Byzantine Empire
- Ammonius Saccas
- Al-Farabi
- Cappadocian Fathers
- Augustine of Hippo
- Western world
- Near East
- Eternity
- Neoplatonism
- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
- Potentiality and actuality
- Knowledge
- Al-Kindi
- Hypostasis (philosophy and religion)
- Soul
- Aristotle
- Universe
- Plotinus
- Reality
- Western Roman Empire
- Christianity
Place in the tradition
Part of Emanationism.