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The threefold structure of the divine: the One (transcending Being), the Intellectual-Principle (Nous), and the Soul — three hypostases proceeding from each other in eternal generation." }, { "num": 2, "slug": "2-the-origin-and-order-of-the-beings", "title": "V.2 — The Origin and Order of the Beings Following on the First", "words": 915, "url": "/sources/plotinus-enneads/ennead-5/2-the-origin-and-order-of-the-beings/", "api": "/api/sources/plotinus-enneads/ennead-5/2-the-origin-and-order-of-the-beings.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "How multiplicity arises from the One", "blurb": "On the procession from the One: how plurality arises from absolute simplicity. The One overflows; the Intellect turns back to it and becomes multiple; the Soul proceeds from Intellect and is the principle of bodily existence." }, { "num": 3, "slug": "3-the-knowing-hypostases-and-the", "title": "V.3 — The Knowing Hypostases and That Which Is Beyond", "words": 9256, "url": "/sources/plotinus-enneads/ennead-5/3-the-knowing-hypostases-and-the/", "api": "/api/sources/plotinus-enneads/ennead-5/3-the-knowing-hypostases-and-the.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "On the One's self-relation", "blurb": "Whether the One has self-knowledge. Plotinus argues that the One, being beyond Being and beyond duality, is also beyond self-knowledge as ordinarily conceived — yet not unaware." }, { "num": 4, "slug": "4-how-the-secondaries-rise-from-the-first", "title": "V.4 — How the Secondaries Rise From the First; and on the One", "words": 1278, "url": "/sources/plotinus-enneads/ennead-5/4-how-the-secondaries-rise-from-the-first/", "api": "/api/sources/plotinus-enneads/ennead-5/4-how-the-secondaries-rise-from-the-first.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Procession without diminution", "blurb": "On the procession of secondaries from the first principle: a generation without diminution of the source — the great Plotinian doctrine that the One gives without losing." }, { "num": 5, "slug": "5-that-the-intellectual-beings-are-not-outside", "title": "V.5 — That the Intellectual Beings Are Not Outside the Intellect; and on the Good", "words": 6185, "url": "/sources/plotinus-enneads/ennead-5/5-that-the-intellectual-beings-are-not-outside/", "api": "/api/sources/plotinus-enneads/ennead-5/5-that-the-intellectual-beings-are-not-outside.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Forms are within Intellect, not external", "blurb": "Against the Middle Platonists who placed the Forms outside Intellect. Plotinus argues the Forms ARE the content of Intellect's self-contemplation — there is no separation between knower and known at this level." }, { "num": 6, "slug": "6-that-the-principle-transcending-being-has", "title": "V.6 — That the Principle Transcending Being Has No Intellectual Act", "words": 2226, "url": "/sources/plotinus-enneads/ennead-5/6-that-the-principle-transcending-being-has/", "api": "/api/sources/plotinus-enneads/ennead-5/6-that-the-principle-transcending-being-has.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The One is beyond intellection", "blurb": "The One does not think, even of itself; thinking would introduce duality. Above intellection because there is no distinction between subject and object in absolute simplicity." }, { "num": 7, "slug": "7-is-there-an-ideal-archetype-of", "title": "V.7 — Is There an Ideal Archetype of Particular Beings?", "words": 1077, "url": "/sources/plotinus-enneads/ennead-5/7-is-there-an-ideal-archetype-of/", "api": "/api/sources/plotinus-enneads/ennead-5/7-is-there-an-ideal-archetype-of.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Forms of individuals", "blurb": "On whether there are Forms of individual particulars (Socrates, this rose) or only of universals. A celebrated and debated treatise on the limits of the Form-doctrine." }, { "num": 8, "slug": "8-on-the-intellectual-beauty", "title": "V.8 — On the Intellectual Beauty", "words": 6396, "url": "/sources/plotinus-enneads/ennead-5/8-on-the-intellectual-beauty/", "api": "/api/sources/plotinus-enneads/ennead-5/8-on-the-intellectual-beauty.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The beauty of the Intelligible Kosmos", "blurb": "The beauty of the intelligible world — Plotinus's account of the Form of beauty as the radiance of Intellect itself. Companion to I.6 on physical beauty; widely read alongside it." }, { "num": 9, "slug": "9-the-intellectual-principle-the-ideas-and", "title": "V.9 — The Intellectual-Principle, the Ideas, and the Authentic Existence", "words": 4400, "url": "/sources/plotinus-enneads/ennead-5/9-the-intellectual-principle-the-ideas-and/", "api": "/api/sources/plotinus-enneads/ennead-5/9-the-intellectual-principle-the-ideas-and.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Intellect and its content are one", "blurb": "Intellect, its act, and its objects (the Ideas) are inseparable: the contents of Intellect ARE Authentic Being. Knower and known coincide at the Intellectual level." } ] }