The Divine Mind; being the Treatises of the Fifth Ennead
Plotinus is primarily remembered for his teachings, which were collected by Porphyry into a volume called the Enneads. This work gives Plotinus’s accounts of the religions and cults of his age. He was interested in the occult but only in a detached and speculative way. He was indifferent to traditional paganism but critical of the Gnostic Christian heretics who preached the mystical dualism of the divine, which he regarded as antiphilosophical, un-Greek, and emotional superstition. His own religious beliefs inclined toward the idea that one could achieve a spiritual union with the good (understood as the Platonic idea of a perfect realm of the ideal) through philosophic reflection.
The Divine Mind; being the Treatises of the Fifth Ennead, translated from Greek by Stephen Mackenna (Boston: Charles T. Branford, 1918).
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS: THE BOOKS OF THE FIFTH ENNEAD
- THE FIFTH ENNEAD
- FIRST TRACTATE The Three Initial Hypostases
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- SECOND TRACTATE The Origin and Order of the Beings following on the First
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- THIRD TRACTATE The Knowing Hypostases and the Transcendent
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- FOURTH TRACTATE How the Secondaries rise from The First: and on The One
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- FIFTH TRACTATE That the Intellectual Beings are not outside the Intellectual-Principle and on The Nature of The Good
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- SIXTH TRACTATE That the Principle transcending Being has no Intellectual Act. What being has intellection primally and what being has it secondarily
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- SEVENTH TRACTATE Is there an Ideal Archetype of Particular Beings?
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- EIGHTH TRACTATE On the Intellectual Beauty
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- THE NINTH TRACTATE The Intellectual-Principle, the Ideas and the Authentic Existence
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