The six Enneads (ΕΝΝΕΑΔΕΣ) are the collected writings of the Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus (ΠΛΩΤΙΝΟΣ) arranged by his student Porphyry (ΠΟΡΦΥΡΙΟΣ) into fifty-four books with each Ennead containing nine. The translator Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie arranged these books chronologically rather than according to Porphyry's numeration. This recording is organized according to Porphyry's numeration with Roman numerals indicating the Ennead and Hindu-Arabic numerals indicating the book e.g. VI.9 would be the ninth book of the sixth Ennead. A hyperlinked table of contents at Volume 1 Page 3 of the gutenberg.org text will enable you to jump to the specific Ennead if you wish to read along with the recording. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)
Chapters
1 Forward 4 min 2 I.1 The Organism and the Self (Vol.4 Pg.1191) 34 min 3 I.2 Concerning Virtue (Vol.1 Pg.256) 28 min 4 I.3 Of Dialectic, or the Means of Raising the Soul to the Intelligible World (Vol.1 Pg.269) 16 min 5 I.4 Whether Animals May Be Termed Happy (Vol.4 Pg.1019) 51 min 6 I.5 Does Happiness Increase With Time? (Vol.3 Pg.684) 14 min 7 I.6 Of Beauty (Vol.1 Pg.40) 36 min 8 I.7 Of the First Good, and of the Other Goods (Vol.4 Pg.1208) 8 min 9 I.8 Of the Nature and Origin of Evils (Vol.4 Pg.1142) 52 min 10 I.9 Of Suicide (Vol.1 Pg.243) 3 min 11 II.1 Of the Heaven (Vol.3 Pg.813) 32 min 12 II.2 About the Movement of the Heavens (Vol.1 Pg.227) 14 min 13 II.3 Whether Astrology is of any Value (Vol.4 Pg.1165) 54 min 14 II.4 Of Matter (Vol.1 Pg.197) 55 min 15 II.5 Of the Aristotelian Distinction Between Actuality and Potentiality (Vol.2 Pg.341) 21 min 16 II.6 Of Essence and Being (Vol.1 Pg.245) 15 min 17 II.7 About Mixture to the Point of Total Penetration (Vol.3 Pg.691) 13 min 18 II.8 Of Sight; or of Why Distant Objects Seem Small (Vol.3 Pg.680) 8 min 19 II.9a That the Creator and the World are Not Evil (Vol.2 Pg.599) 48 min 20 II.9b Against the Gnostics (Vol.2 Pg.620) 42 min 21 III.1 Concerning Fate (Vol.1 Pg.86) 32 min 22 III.2a Of Providence (Vol.4 Pg.1042) 41 min 23 III.2b Of Providence (Vol.4 Pg.1059) 38 min 24 III.3 Continuation of That on Providence (Vol.4 Pg.1077) 31 min 25 III.4 Of Our Individual Guardian (Vol.1 Pg.233) 24 min 26 III.5 Of Love, or "Eros" (Vol.4 Pg.1122) 44 min 27 III.6a Of the Impassibility of Incorporeal Entities (Vol.2 Pg.350) 46 min 28 III.6b Soul and Matter (Vol.2 Pg.368) 43 min 29 III.7a Of Eternity (Vol.3 Pg.985) 29 min 30 III.7b Of Time (Vol.3 Pg.996) 46 min 31 III.8 Of Nature, Contemplation and Unity (Vol.2 Pg.531) 51 min 32 III.9 Fragments About the Soul, the Intelligence, and the Good (Vol.1 Pg.220) 17 min 33 IV.1 Of the Being of the Soul (Vol.1 Pg.100) 3 min 34 IV.2 How the Soul Mediates Between Indivisible and Divisible Essence (Vol.1 Pg.276) 16 min 35 IV.3a Are Not All Souls Parts or Emanations of a Single Soul? (Vol.2 Pg.387) 41 min 36 IV.3b Why and How do Souls Descend into Bodies? (Vol.2 Pg.403) 34 min 37 IV.3c Does the Soul Employ Discursive Reason While Discarnate? (Vol.2 Pg.416) 55 min 38 IV.4a Questions About the Soul (Vol.2 Pg.441) 1 h 39 IV.4b Questions About the Soul (Vol.2 Pg.465) 1 h 5 min 40 IV.4c Questions About the Soul (Vol.2 Pg.490) 1 h 41 IV.5 About the Process of Vision and Hearing (Vol.2 Pg.514) 44 min 42 IV.6 Of Sensation and Memory (Vol.3 Pg.829) 17 min 43 IV.7a Of the Immortality of the Soul (Vol.1 Pg.56) 47 min 44 IV.7b Of the Immortality of the Soul (Vol.1 Pg.74) 30 min 45 IV.8 On the Descent of the Soul Into the Body (Vol.1 Pg.119) 38 min 46 IV.9 Whether All Souls Form a Single One (Vol.1 Pg.139) 20 min 47 V.1 The Three Principal Hypostases, or Forms of Existence (Vol.1 Pg.173) 52 min 48 V.2 Of Generation, and of the Order of things that Rank Next After the First (Vol.1 Pg.193) 9 min 49 V.3a The Self-Consciousnesses, and What is Above Them (Vol.4 Pg.1090) 43 min 50 V.3b The Self-Consciousnesses, and What is Above Them (Vol.4 Pg.1106) 41 min 51 V.4 How What is After the First Proceeds Therefrom; of the One (Vol.1 Pg.134) 12 min 52 V.5 That Intelligible Entities Are Not External to the Intelligence of the Good (Vol.2 Pg.575) 1 h 53 V.6 The Superessential Principle Does Not Think (Vol.2 Pg.333) 20 min 54 V.7 Do Ideas of Individuals Exist (Vol.1 Pg.251) 11 min 55 V.8 Concerning Intelligible Beauty (Vol.2 Pg.551) 1 h 3 min 56 V.9 Of Intelligence, Ideas and Essence (Vol.1 Pg.102) 42 min 57 VI.1a Of the Ten Aristotelian Categories (Vol.3 Pg.837) 1 h 2 min 58 VI.1b Of the Ten Aristotelian Categories (Vol.3 Pg.860) 48 min 59 VI.1c Criticism of the Stoic Categories (Vol.3 Pg.878) 29 min 60 VI.2a The Categories of Plotinos (Vol.3 Pg.891) 54 min 61 VI.2b The Categories of Plotinos (Vol.3 Pg.911) 58 min 62 VI.3a Plotinos's Own Sense-Categories (Vol.3 Pg.933) 42 min 63 VI.3b Plotinos's Own Sense-Categories (Vol.3 Pg.948) 50 min 64 VI.3c Plotinos's Own Sense-Categories (Vol.3 Pg.967) 45 min 65 VI.4a The One Identical Essence is Everywhere Entirely Present (Vol.2 Pg.285) 41 min 66 VI.4b The One Identical Essence is Everywhere Entirely Present (Vol.2 Pg.300) 35 min 67 VI.5 The One Identical Essence is Everywhere Entirely Present (Vol.2 Pg.314) 51 min 68 VI.6a Of Numbers (Vol.3 Pg.643) 49 min 69 VI.6b Of Numbers (Vol.3 Pg.661) 48 min 70 VI.7a How Ideas Multiply (Vol.3 Pg.697) 40 min 71 VI.7b How Ideas Multiply (Vol.3 Pg.712) 38 min 72 VI.7c A Study of the Good (Vol.3 Pg.726) 1 h 2 min 73 VI.7d A Study of the Good (Vol.3 Pg. 749) 1 h 1 min 74 VI.8a Of the Will of the One (Vol.3 Pg.773) 52 min 75 VI.8b Of the Will of the One (Vol.3 Pg.793) 50 min 76 VI.9a Of the Good and the One (Vol.1 Pg.147) 38 min 77 VI.9b Of the Good and the One (Vol.1 Pg.161) 28 min 78 Life of Plotinos by Porphyry I-VII (Vol.1 Pg.5) 29 min 79 Life of Plotinos by Porphyry VIII-XVIII (Vol.1 Pg.15) 26 min 80 Life of Plotinos by Porphyry XIX-XXIV (Vol.1 Pg.25) 35 min 81 Life of Plotinos by Eunapius & Suidas (Vol.1 Pg.39) 2 min 82 Porphyry's Commentary - Part 1 (Vol.4 Pg.1215) 47 min 83 Porphyry's Commentary - Part 2 (Vol.4 Pg.1233) 56 min 84 Psychological Fragments (Vol.4 Pg. 1254) 32 min 85 PS1 Development in the Teachings of Plotinos (Vol.4 Pg.1269) 50 min 86 PS2 Platonism: Significance, Progress, and Results (Vol.4 Pg. 1288) 20 min 87 PS3 Plotinos's View of Matter (Vol.4 Pg.1296) 10 min 88 PS4 Plotinos's Creation of the Trinity (Vol.4 Pg.1300) 19 min 89 PS5 Resemblances to Christianity (Vol.4 Pg.1307) 14 min 90 PS6 Plotinos's Indebtedness to Numenius (Vol.4 Pg. 1313) 34 min 91 PS7 Value of Plotinos (Vol.4 Pg.1327) 19 min
