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THE LIBRARY OF PHILOSOPHICAL
TRANSLATIONS. PLOTINUS: THE
DIVINE MIND, VOLUME IV.
Do ċum glóirе Dé & onóra na h-Éireann
Stíofán mac-Enna.
LOTINUS
THE DIVINE MIND, BEING
THE TREATISES OF THE FIFTH
ENNEAD, TRANSLATED
FROM THE GREEK BY STEPHEN MACKENNA
THE MEDICI SOCIETY, LIMITED
7 GRAFTON ST. LONDON, W. 1
ALSO AT BOSTON, U.S.A. 1926
Printed in England
CONTENTS
The Books Of The Fifth Ennead
Page
I.
The Three Initial Hypostases
1
II.
The Origin and Order of the Beings Following on the First
16
III.
The Knowing Hypostases and the Transcendent
18
IV.
How the Secondaries rise from The First: and on The One
43
V.
That the Intellectual Beings are not Outside the Intellectual-Principle: and on the Nature of the Good
47
VI.
That the Principle Transcending Being has no Intellectual Act. What being has intellection primally and what being has it secondarily
63
VII.
Is there an Ideal Archetype of Particular Beings?
69
VIII.
On the Intellectual Beauty
73
IX.
The Intellectual-Principle, the Ideas and the Authentic Existence
89
Acknowledgements
103
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