Enneads: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Enneads, credited to Plotinus; Porphyry, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Enneads by Plotinus; Porphyry. (Translated by Kenneth Guthrie.) Read in English by Geoffrey Edwards 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Enneads
• Author credits: Plotinus; Porphyry
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 91
• Listed recording duration: 54:11:56

Catalogue topics

• Christianity
• judaism
• plato
• Islam
• neoplatonism
• plotinus
• porphry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 91

1. 00 - Forward — 3:30
2. 01 - I.1 The Organism and the Self (Vol.4 Pg.1191) — 34:14
3. 02 - I.2 Concerning Virtue (Vol.1 Pg.256) — 27:48
4. 03 - I.3 Of Dialectic, or the Means of Raising the Soul to the Intelligible World (Vol.1 Pg.269) — 15:40
5. 04 - I.4 Whether Animals May Be Termed Happy (Vol.4 Pg.1019) — 50:49
6. 05 - I.5 Does Happiness Increase With Time? (Vol.3 Pg.684) — 13:40
7. 06 - I.6 Of Beauty (Vol.1 Pg.40) — 35:54
8. 07 - I.7 Of the First Good, and of the Other Goods (Vol.4 Pg.1208) — 7:35
9. 08 - I.8 Of the Nature and Origin of Evils (Vol.4 Pg.1142) — 52:23
10. 09 - I.9 Of Suicide (Vol.1 Pg.243) — 3:27
11. 10 - II.1 Of the Heaven (Vol.3 Pg.813) — 32:30
12. 11 - II.2 About the Movement of the Heavens (Vol.1 Pg.227) — 14:15
13. 12 - II.3 Whether Astrology is of any Value (Vol.4 Pg.1165) — 53:36
14. 13 - II.4 Of Matter (Vol.1 Pg.197) — 55:18
15. 14 - II.5 Of the Aristotelian Distinction Between Actuality and Potentiality (Vol.2 Pg.341) — 20:39
16. 15 - II.6 Of Essence and Being (Vol.1 Pg.245) — 14:46
17. 16 - II.7 About Mixture to the Point of Total Penetration (Vol.3 Pg.691) — 13:09
18. 17 - II.8 Of Sight; or of Why Distant Objects Seem Small (Vol.3 Pg.680) — 8:01
19. 18 - II.9a That the Creator and the World are Not Evil (Vol.2 Pg.599) — 47:43
20. 19 - II.9b Against the Gnostics (Vol.2 Pg.620) — 41:41
21. 20 - III.1 Concerning Fate (Vol.1 Pg.86) — 31:52
22. 21 - III.2a Of Providence (Vol.4 Pg.1042) — 41:16
23. 22 - III.2b Of Providence (Vol.4 Pg.1059) — 37:45
24. 23 - III.3 Continuation of That on Providence (Vol.4 Pg.1077) — 31:20

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