PLOTINUS ENNEAD VI.9 .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .g n ih silb u P se d in e m ra P .0 2 0 2 © th g iryp o C Clark, Stephen. PLOTINUS Ennead VI. 9: on the Good or the One : PLOTINUS Ennead VI. 9: on the Good or the One, Parmenides Publishing, 2020. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/newschool/detail.action?docID=6475234. Created from newschool on 2021-05-18 13:08:26. THE ENNEADS OF PLOTINUS With Philosophical Commentaries Series Editors: John M. Dillon, Trinity College, Dublin and Andrew Smith, University College, Dublin Also Available in the Series: I.1: What Is the Living Thing? What Is Man? by Gerard O’Daly I.6: On Beauty by Andrew Smith II.5: On What Is Potentially and What Actually by Cinzia Arruzza II.9: Against the Gnostics by Sebastian Ramon Philipp Gertz III.4: On Our Allotted Guardian Spirit by Wiebke-Marie Stock IV.3–4.29: Problems Concerning the Soul by John M. Dillon & H. J. Blumenthal IV.4.30–45 & IV.5: Problems Concerning the Soul by Gary Gurtler IV.7: On the Immortality of the Soul by Barrie Fleet IV.8: On the Descent of the Soul Into Bodies by Barrie Fleet V.1: On the Three Primary Levels of Reality by Eric D. Perl V.5: That the Intelligibles are not External to Intellect, and on the Good by Lloyd P. Gerson VI.4 & VI.5: On the Presence of Being, One and the Same, Everywhere as a Whole by Eyjólfur Emilsson & Steven Strange VI.8: On the Voluntary and on the Free Will of the One by Kevin Corrigan and John D. Turner Forthcoming Titles in the Series Include: I.2: On Virtues by Suzanne Stern-Gillet I.3: On Dialectic by Pauliina Remes I.4: On Well-Being by Kieran McGroarty .de I.5: On Whether Well Being Increases With Time by Danielle A. Layne vrese I.8: On the Nature and Source of Evil by Anne Sheppard r sth II.4: On Matter by Anthony A. Long g ir llA II.7: On Complete Blending by Robert Goulding .g II.8: On Sight by Robert Goulding n ih III.5: On Love by Sara Magrin silbu III.6: On Impassibility by Eleni Perdikouri P se III.7: On Eternity and Time by László Bene d ine III.8: On Nature and Contemplation by George Karamanolis m ra IV.6: On Sense-Perception and Memory by Peter Lautner P .02 V.2, V.4, and V.6: On the One and Intellect by Eleni Perdikouri 0 2 © V.3: On the Knowing Hypostases by Marie-Élise Zovko thg V.9: On Intellect, Ideas, and Being by Matthias Vorwerk iryp VI.1–2: On the Genera of Being (I+II) by Damien Caluori & Regina Füchslin o C VI.3: On the Genera of Being (III) by Riccardo Chiaradonna VI.7: The Forms and the Good by Nicholas Banner Clark, Stephen. PLOTINUS Ennead VI. 9: on the Good or the One : PLOTINUS Ennead VI. 9: on the Good or the One, Parmenides Publishing, 2020. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/newschool/detail.action?docID=6475234. Created from newschool on 2021-05-18 13:08:26. PLOTINUS ENNEAD VI.9 On the Good or the One Translation with an Introduction and Commentary .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .g STEPHEN R. L. CLARK n ih silb u P se d in e m ra P .0 2 0 2 © th g iryp oC Las Vegas | Zurich | Athens Clark, Stephen. PLOTINUS Ennead VI. 9: on the Good or the One : PLOTINUS Ennead VI. 9: on the Good or the One, Parmenides Publishing, 2020. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/newschool/detail.action?docID=6475234. Created from newschool on 2021-05-18 13:08:26. PARMENIDES PUBLISHING Las Vegas | Zurich | Athens © 2020 Parmenides Publishing. All rights reserved. This edition published in 2020 by Parmenides Publishing in the United States of America ISBN soft cover: 978-1-7335357-2-4 ISBN e-Book: 978-1-7335357-3-1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Plotinus, author. | Clark, Stephen R. L., translator. Title: Ennead VI.9 : on the good or the one / Plotinus ; translation with an introduction and commentary Stephen R. L. Clark. Other titles: Enneads. VI, 9. English | On the good or the one Description: Las Vegas : Parmenides Publishing, 2020. | Series: The Enneads of Plotinus with philosophical commentaries | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “A translation and commentary on Plotinus’ Ennead VI.9 on the Good, being the treatise chosen by Porphyry as the culmination of Plotinus’ Collected Works”-- Provided by publisher. Identifiers: LCCN 2019049447 (print) | ISBN 9781733535724 .de (paperback) | ISBN 9781733535731 (ebook) vrese Subjects: LCSH: Plotinus. Enneads. VI, 9. | Soul--Early works to 1800. | r sth One (The One in philosophy)--Early works to 1800. g Classification: LCC B693.E52 E5 2020 (print) | LCC B693.E52 (ebook) | ir llA DDC 186/.4--dc23 .gn LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019049447 ih silb LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019049448 u P se Typeset in Warnock and Futura d ine Printed by Integrated Books International (IBI), Chicago, IL m ra www.parmenides.com P .0 2 0 2 © th g iryp o C Clark, Stephen. PLOTINUS Ennead VI. 9: on the Good or the One : PLOTINUS Ennead VI. 9: on the Good or the One, Parmenides Publishing, 2020. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/newschool/detail.action?docID=6475234. Created from newschool on 2021-05-18 13:08:26. To the memory of Hilary Armstrong, Henry Blumenthal, and Anthony Lloyd, who jointly maintained a Plotinian tradition in Liverpool for many years .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .g n ih silb u P se d in e m ra P .0 2 0 2 © th g iryp o C Clark, Stephen. PLOTINUS Ennead VI. 9: on the Good or the One : PLOTINUS Ennead VI. 9: on the Good or the One, Parmenides Publishing, 2020. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/newschool/detail.action?docID=6475234. Created from newschool on 2021-05-18 13:08:26. .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .g n ih silb u P se d in e m ra P .0 2 0 2 © th g iryp o C Clark, Stephen. PLOTINUS Ennead VI. 9: on the Good or the One : PLOTINUS Ennead VI. 9: on the Good or the One, Parmenides Publishing, 2020. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/newschool/detail.action?docID=6475234. Created from newschool on 2021-05-18 13:08:26. Contents Introduction to the Series 1 Acknowledgements 11 INTRODUCTION TO THE TREATISE 15 Note on the Greek Text 27 Note on the Translation of Other Passages of Plotinus 29 SYNOPSIS 31 TRANSLATION 37 COMMENTARY 63 Chapter 1 63 Chapter 2 77 Chapter 3 87 Chapter 4 100 .d Chapter 5 103 e vre se Chapter 6 106 r sth g Chapter 7 120 ir llA .g Chapter 8 128 n ih silb Chapter 9 139 u P se Chapter 10 151 d in e mra Chapter 11 154 P .02 Bibliography 163 0 2 © th Index of Ancient Texts and Authors 185 g iryp Index of Names and Subjects 187 o C Clark, Stephen. PLOTINUS Ennead VI. 9: on the Good or the One : PLOTINUS Ennead VI. 9: on the Good or the One, Parmenides Publishing, 2020. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/newschool/detail.action?docID=6475234. Created from newschool on 2021-05-18 13:08:26. .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .g n ih silb u P se d in e m ra P .0 2 0 2 © th g iryp o C Clark, Stephen. PLOTINUS Ennead VI. 9: on the Good or the One : PLOTINUS Ennead VI. 9: on the Good or the One, Parmenides Publishing, 2020. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/newschool/detail.action?docID=6475234. Created from newschool on 2021-05-18 13:08:26. Introduction to the Series With a Brief Outline of the Life and Thought of Plotinus (205–270 CE) Plotinus was born in 205 CE in Egypt of Greek- speaking parents. He attended the philosophical schools in Alexandria where he would have studied Plato (427–347 BCE), Aristotle (384–322 BCE), the Stoics and Epicureans as well as other Greek philosophical traditions. He began .d e vre his serious philosophical education, however, relatively se r sth late in life, at the age of twenty-seven and was deeply g ir llA impressed by the Platonist Ammonius Saccas about .gn whom we, unfortunately, know very little, but with ih silb whom Plotinus studied for some eleven years. Even our u P se knowledge of Plotinus’ life is limited to what we can d in em glean from Porphyry’s introduction to his edition of his ra P .0 philosophical treatises, an account colored by Porphyry’s 2 0 2 © own concerns. After completing his studies in Alexandria th g iryp o C 1 Clark, Stephen. PLOTINUS Ennead VI. 9: on the Good or the One : PLOTINUS Ennead VI. 9: on the Good or the One, Parmenides Publishing, 2020. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/newschool/detail.action?docID=6475234. Created from newschool on 2021-05-18 12:53:56. 2 Plotinus: Ennead VI.9 Plotinus attempted, by joining a military expedition of the Roman emperor Gordian III, to make contact with the Brahmins in order to learn something of Indian thought. Unfortunately Gordian was defeated and killed (244). Plotinus somehow managed to extract himself and we next hear of him in Rome where he was able to set up a school of philosophy in the house of a high-ranking Roman lady by the name of Gemina. It is, perhaps, surprising that he had no formal contacts with the Platonic Academy in Athens, which was headed at the time by Longinus, but Longinus was familiar with his work, partly at least through Porphyry who had studied in Athens. The fact that it was Rome where Plotinus set up his school may be due to the originality of his philosophical activity and to his patrons. He clearly had some influential contacts, not least with the philhellenic emperor Gallienus (253–268), who may also have encouraged his later failed attempt to .d e set up a civic community based on Platonic principles in vre ser sth a ruined city in Campania. gir llA Plotinus’ school was, like most ancient schools of .g philosophy, relatively small in scale, but did attract dis- n ih silb tinguished students from abroad and from the Roman u P se upper classes. It included not only philosophers but also d ine politicians and members of the medical profession who m ra P wished to lead the philosophical life. His most famous .0 2 02 student was Porphyry (233–305) who, as a relative late- © th comer to the school, persuaded him to put into writing the g iryp o C Clark, Stephen. PLOTINUS Ennead VI. 9: on the Good or the One : PLOTINUS Ennead VI. 9: on the Good or the One, Parmenides Publishing, 2020. 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