THE ENNEADS

of Plotinus

Links to Each Tractate, Chapter and Ennead

THIS page contains links to the Enneads of Plotinus, with direct links to each Tractate, Chapter and Ennead for the popular Stephen MacKenna translation. Links to other translations in English and French, commentaries, Greek text, critical editions and research resources are also supplied.

English Translations

Thomas Taylor
- 1792: An Essay on the Beautiful (repr. 1917).
- 1794: Five Books of Plotinus (5 treatises).
- 1817: Select Works of Plotinus (15 treatises; repr. 1895, G. R. S. Mead, ed.).
- 1834: Treatises of Plotinus (4 treatises).
Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie. Plotinos: Complete Works, in 4 vols. (1918); also archive.org: v1 v2 v3 v4.
Stephen MacKenna
- Plotinus: The Enneads. First edition, in 5 vols. (1917–1930); also archive.org: v1 v2 v3 v4 v5.
- Plotinus: The Enneads. Second edition, in 1 vol. (1956; B. S. Page, ed.).
Arthur Hilary Armstrong. Plotinus: Enneads, including Greek (Henry & Schwyzer), in 7 vols. Loeb Classical Library (1966–1988).
Lloyd P. Gerson (ed.), George Boys-Stones, John M. Dillon, Lloyd P. Gerson, R.A. King, Andrew Smith and James Wilberding (trs.). The Enneads. Cambridge University Press, 2018.

French Translations

Marie-Nicolas Bouillet. Ennéades. 3 vols. Paris, 1857–1861.
Emile Bréhier. Ennéades. 7 vols. Paris (Les Belles Lettres), 1924–1938.
Luc Brisson, Jean-Francois Pradeau, et. al. Plotin. Traités. 9 vols. French translation with commentaries. Paris (Flammarion), 2002–2010.

Greek Text/Critical Editions

Georg Friedrich Creuzer. Plotini Opera Omnia. 3 vols. Oxford, 1835. v1 v2 v3. Includes translations and commentaries of Ficino. Additional notes by Wyttenbach and critical apparatus by Moser.
Adolf Kirchoff, Plotini Opera, 2 vols., Leipzig (Teubner ed.), 1856. v1 v2
Richard Emil Volkmann, Plotini Enneades, 2 vols., Leipzig (Teubner), 1883–1884. v1 v2
Richard Harder, Rudolf Buetler, Willy Theiler. Plotins Schriften. 6 vols. Hamburg, 1956–1971.
Paul Henry & Hans-Rudolph Schwyzer. Plotini Opera.
- Editio maior in 3 vols. (vol. 2 includes English translation of the Plotiniana Arabica or the Theology of Aristotle by Geoffrey Lewis), Brussels & Paris: Museum Lessianum, 1951–1973. Online Greek text
- Editio minor in 3 vols. ("extensively revised"), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964–1982.

Commentaries

The Enneads of Plotinus Series, Parmenides Publishing. Series Editors: John M. Dillon and Andrew Smith.
Paul Kalligas. The Enneads of Plotinus: A Commentary (Volume 1: Enneads I–III). Princeton University Press, 2014.

Latin Translations

Marsilio Ficino
- Plotini Opera, Florence, 1492.
- Plotini platonicorum facile coryphaei Operum philosophicorum omnium libri 54, Basel, 1580 (Perna edition).

Index: Ennead × Treatise

Ennead 1 Ennead 2 Ennead 3 Ennead 4 Ennead 5 Ennead 6

Index: Ennead × Tractate × Chapter

English text (MacKenna, 1917–1930) at Sacred Text Archive

Plotinus Research Resources

Porphyry: On the Life of Plotinus and the Arrangement of his Works (MacKenna) Greek French
Plotinus. Wikipedia (includes excellent bibliography)
Plotinus. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Lloyd Gerson)
Plotinus. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Edward Moore)
Armstrong, A. H. Part 3. Plotinus. In: A. H. Armstrong (ed.), The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy, Cambridge, 1967 (repr. with corrections 1970), pp. 193–268.
Henry, Paul. The Place of Plotinus in the History of Thought. In: Stephen MacKenna (tr.), B. S. Page (ed.), Plotinus: The Enneads, 2nd edition, London, 1956; pp. xxxiii–li.
Plotinian Bibliography by Richard Dufour
Lexicon Plotinianum, John H. Sleeman and Gilbert Pollet, Leiden, 1980.
Plotinus pages at Kheper.net
The Philosophy of the Commentators, 200-600 AD: A Sourcebook. Excellent Neoplatonism studies resource by Richard Sorabji.
- Vol. 1 Psychology;
- Vol. 2 Physics;
- Vol. 3 Logic and Metaphysics.
International Society for Neoplatonic Studies (includes a good list of online primary texts by Neoplatonists)
Plotinos at Bibliotheca Augustana (Ulrich Harsch)
Plotinus in Print (Elpenor)

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Index for Ennead × Treatise
English (MacKenna, 1917–1930) at Sacred Text Archive
Greek & French (Bouillet, 1857–1861) at Philippe Remacle website
(French version is internally hyperlinked, with extensive footnotes.)

First Ennead

English	Greek	French	Title of Tractate
Tract. 1	Tract. 1	Tract. 1	1. On the Animate and the Man
Tract. 2	Tract. 2	Tract. 2	2. On Virtue
Tract. 3	Tract. 3	Tract. 3	3. On Dialectic (The Upward Way)
Tract. 4	Tract. 4	Tract. 4	4. On True Happiness (Well Being)
Tract. 5	Tract. 5	Tract. 5	5. On Whether Happiness (Well Being) Increases with Time
Tract. 6	Tract. 6	Tract. 6	6. On Beauty
Tract. 7	Tract. 7	Tract. 7	7. On the Primal Good and Secondary Forms of Good
Tract. 8	Tract. 8	Tract. 8	8. On Evil
Tract. 9	Tract. 9	Tract. 9	9. Reasoned Withdrawal from Life

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Second Ennead

English	Greek	French	Title of Tractate
Tract. 1	Tract. 1	Tract. 1	1. On Heaven
Tract. 2	Tract. 2	Tract. 2	2. On the Movement of Heaven
Tract. 3	Tract. 3	Tract. 3	3. Whether the Stars are Causes
Tract. 4	Tract. 4	Tract. 4	4. On Matter
Tract. 5	Tract. 5	Tract. 5	5. On Potentiality and Actuality
Tract. 6	Tract. 6	Tract. 6	6. On Quality and Form
Tract. 7	Tract. 7	Tract. 7	7. On Coalescence
Tract. 8	Tract. 8	Tract. 8	8. Why Distant Objects Appear Small
Tract. 9	Tract. 9	Tract. 9	9. Against the Gnostics

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Third Ennead

English	Greek	French	Title of Tractate
Tract. 1	Tract. 1	Tract. 1	1. On Fate
Tract. 2	Tract. 2	Tract. 2	2. The First Treatise on Providence
Tract. 3	Tract. 3	Tract. 3	3. The Second Treatise on Providence
Tract. 4	Tract. 4	Tract. 4	4. On Our Tutelary Spirit
Tract. 5	Tract. 5	Tract. 5	5. On Love
Tract. 6	Tract. 6	Tract. 6	6. On the Impassivity of the Unembodied
Tract. 7	Tract. 7	Tract. 7	7. On Eternity and Time
Tract. 8	Tract. 8	Tract. 8	8. On Nature, Contemplation, and The One
Tract. 9	Tract. 9	Tract. 9	9. Various Questions

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Fourth Ennead

English	Greek	French	Title of Tractate
Tract. 1	Tract. 1	Tract. 1	1. On the Essence of the Soul (I)
Tract. 2	Tract. 2	Tract. 2	2. On the Essence of the Soul (II)
Tract. 3	Tract. 3	Tract. 3	3. Questions Concerning the Soul (I)
Tract. 4	Tract. 4	Tract. 4	4. Questions Concerning the Soul (II)
Tract. 5	Tract. 5	Tract. 5	5. Questions Concerning the Soul (III)
Tract. 6	Tract. 6	Tract. 6	6. On Sensation and Memory
Tract. 7	Tract. 7	Tract. 7	7. On the Immortality of the Soul
Tract. 8	Tract. 8	Tract. 8	8. On the Descent of the Soul into Bodies
Tract. 9	Tract. 9	Tract. 9	9. Whether all Souls are One

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Fifth Ennead

English	Greek	French	Title of Tractate
Tract. 1	Tract. 1	Tract. 1	1. On the Three Primary Hypostases
Tract. 2	Tract. 2	Tract. 2	2. On the Origin and Order of the Post-Primary Beings
Tract. 3	Tract. 3	Tract. 3	3. On the Knowing Hypostases and That Which is Beyond
Tract. 4	Tract. 4	Tract. 4	4. How That Which is After the First Comes from the First, and on The One
Tract. 5	Tract. 5	Tract. 5	5. That the Intelligibles are not Outside the Intellect, and on The Good
Tract. 6	Tract. 6	Tract. 6	6. That Which is Beyond Being Does not Think
Tract. 7	Tract. 7	Tract. 7	7. Whether there are Ideas of Particular Beings
Tract. 8	Tract. 8	Tract. 8	8. On Intelligible Beauty
Tract. 9	Tract. 9	Tract. 9	9. On Intellect, the Forms, and Being

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Sixth Ennead

English	Greek	French	Title of Tractate
Tract. 1	Tract. 1	Tract. 1	1. On the Kinds of Being (1)
Tract. 2	Tract. 2	Tract. 2	2. On the Kinds of Being (2)
Tract. 3	Tract. 3	Tract. 3	3. On the Kinds of Being (3)
Tract. 4	Tract. 4	Tract. 4	4. On the Presence of Being, One and the Same, Everywhere as a Whole (1)
Tract. 5	Tract. 5	Tract. 5	5. On the Presence of Being, One and the Same, Everywhere as a Whole (2)
Tract. 6	Tract. 6	Tract. 6	6. On Numbers
Tract. 7	Tract. 7	Tract. 7	7. How the Multiplicity of Forms Came Into Being, and on The Good
Tract. 8	Tract. 8	Tract. 8	8. On Free Will and the Will of The One
Tract. 9	Tract. 9	Tract. 9	9. On The Good, or The One