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THE LIBRARY OF PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSLATIONS. PLOTINUS: THE ETHICAL TREATISES, VOLUME I.
Do ċum glóirе Dé & onóra na h-Éireann,
i n’Doṁnaċ-Droc Ḋaile-Áṫa-Cliaṫ ḋom,
Stíofán mac-Enna. Nodlaig 1916.
LOTINUS:
THE ETHICAL TREATISES
BEING THE TREATISES OF THE FIRST ENNEAD WITH PORPHYRY'S LIFE OF PLOTINUS, AND THE PRELLER-RITTER EXTRACTS FORMING A CONSPECTUS OF THE PLOTINIAN SYSTEM, TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK BY STEPHEN MACKENNA
PHILIP LEE WARNER, PUBLISHER
TO THE MEDICI SOCIETY, LIMITED
7 GRAFTON ST. LONDON, W, 1. 1917
Of this Edition 1000 copies have
been printed on pure rag paper.
CONTENTS
Page
Porphyry's Life of Plotinus
1
The Books of the First Ennead
I.
The Animate and the Man
29
II.
On Virtue
41
III.
Dialectic (or the Upward Way)
50
IV.
On Happiness (or the Authentic Good of Life)
56
V.
On Happiness and Extension of Time
72
VI.
On Beauty
77
VII.
On the Primal Good and its Secondary Forms
89
VIII.
On Evil, Its Nature and Source
92
IX.
"The Reasoned Dismissal"
108
Bibliography and Explanatory Matter
Text, Previous Translations
113
Method of this Translation
114
Commentaries
116
Terminology
117
The Divine Names
118
The One
118
The Intellectual-Principle
119
The All-Soul
120
The Divine-Triad as a Unity
120
The Gods and Daimones
121
Man: His Nature, Powers and Destiny
121
Evil and Matter
123
Morality
123
The Term and the Way
124
Minor Points of Terminology
124
The Preller-Ritter Conspectus of the Plotinian System
I.
The Fall of the Souls and Their Return
130
Free-Will
131
II.
The Grandeur of the Soul
131
All Souls as One Soul
132
III.
The Soul in Relation to the Intellectual-Principle
134
Emanation, Its Nature and Mode
135
Matter in the Divine Sphere
135
IV.
The Intellectual-Principle in Relation to the One
136
The Categories of the Divine
137
Reasoning and Intellection
137
Identity of Divine Mind and Divine Thoughts
138
The Act of the Intellectual-Principle and of the Soul
139
Universal Contemplation
139
V.
The Origin of Multiplicity
140
The Need of the One Transcending the Multiple
140
VI.
The Absolute Transcendency of the One
141
The One Stated only by Negation
141
VII.
Why the Supreme is s Triad
143
The Soul's Intellective-Nature
144
The Ideas in the Intellectual-Principle and in Soul
144
The Presence of the One in the Lower Existents
145
VIII.
The Soul and the World of Nature
146
Fall of the Soul
147
IX.
Matter
148
X.
Soul and Body
148
Eternity of the World
149
Fall of the Soul Denied
150
Evil and Ugliness
150
The World Animated
150
Prayer and Magic
151
Temples and Statues
151
XI.
How Souls Take Body
152
Fall of the Soul
152
Gods and Daimones
152
Astrology
153
Celestial Man
153
XII.
The Soul After Death
153
Body is in Soul, not Soul in Body
153
Sensation and the True Man
154
Virtue and Vice
154
The Drama of Life
154
XIII.
Likeness to God
155
Purification and Perfection
155
XIV.
The Vision of the Supreme
156
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