Porphyry’s Order and Titles
(vp 24–26; the translation of the titles is from Armstrong)
Ennead i
- i.1 [53]What is the living being, and what is man?
- i.2 [19]On virtues
- i.3 [20]On dialectic
- i.4 [46]On well-being
- i.5 [36]On whether well-being increases with time
- i.6 [1]On beauty
- i.7 [54]On the primal Good and the other goods
- i.8 [51]On what are and whence come evils
- i.9 [16]On going out of the body
Ennead ii
- ii.1 [40]On heaven (On the universe)
- ii.2 [14]On the movement of heaven
- ii.3 [52]On whether the stars are causes
- ii.4 [12]On matter
- ii.5 [25]On what exists potentially and what actually
- ii.6 [17]On substance, or on quality
- ii.7 [37]On complete transfusion
- ii.8 [35]On sight, or how distant objects appear small
- ii.9 [33]Against the Gnostics
Ennead iii
- iii.1 [3]On destiny
- iii.2 [47]On providence i
- iii.3 [48]On providence ii
- iii.4 [15]On our allotted guardian spirit
- iii.5 [50]On love
- iii.6 [26]On the impassivity of things without body
- iii.7 [45]On eternity and time
- iii.8 [30]On nature and contemplation and the One
- iii.9 [13]Various considerations
Ennead iv
- iv.1 [21]On the essence of the soul ii1
- iv.2 [4]On the essence of the soul i
- iv.3 [27]On difficulties about the soul i
- iv.4 [28]On difficulties about the soul ii
- iv.5 [29]On difficulties about the soul iii, or on sight
- iv.6 [41]On sense-perception and memory
- iv.7 [2]On the immortality of the soul
- iv.8 [6]On the descent of the soul into bodies
- iv.9 [8]If all souls are one
Ennead v
- v.1 [10]On the three primary hypostases
- v.2 [11]On the origin and order of the beings which come after the First
- v.3 [49]On the knowing hypostases and that which is beyond
- v.4 [7]How that which is after the First comes from the First, and on the One
- v.5 [32]That the intelligibles are not outside Intellect, and on the Good
- v.6 [24]On the fact that that which is beyond being does not think, and on what is the primary and what the secondary thinking principle
- v.7 [18]On the question whether there are ideas of particulars
- v.8 [31]On the intelligible beauty
- v.9 [5]On Intellect, the forms, and being
Ennead vi
- vi.1 [42]On the kinds of being i
- vi.2 [43]On the kinds of being ii
- vi.3 [44]On the kinds of being iii
- vi.4 [22]On the presence of being, one and the same, everywhere as a whole i
- vi.5 [23]On the presence of being, one and the same, everywhere as a whole ii
- vi.6 [34]On numbers
- vi.7 [38]How the multitude of the forms came into being, and on the Good
- vi.8 [39]On free will and the will of the One
- vi.9 [9]On the Good or the One
Chronological Order
(VP 4–6)
| 1 | i.6 | 10 | v.1 | 19 | i.2 | 28 | iv.4 | 37 | ii.7 | 46 | i.4 |
| 2 | iv.7 | 11 | v.2 | 20 | i.3 | 29 | iv.5 | 38 | vi.7 | 47 | iii.2 |
| 3 | iii.1 | 12 | ii.4 | 21 | iv.1 | 30 | iii.8 | 39 | vi.8 | 48 | iii.3 |
| 4 | iv.2 | 13 | iii.9 | 22 | vi.4 | 31 | v.8 | 40 | ii.1 | 49 | v.3 |
| 5 | v.9 | 14 | ii.2 | 23 | vi.5 | 32 | v.5 | 41 | iv.6 | 50 | iii.5 |
| 6 | iv.8 | 15 | iii.4 | 24 | v.6 | 33 | ii.9 | 42 | vi.1 | 51 | i.8 |
| 7 | v.4 | 16 | i.9 | 25 | ii.5 | 34 | vi.6 | 43 | vi.2 | 52 | ii.3 |
| 8 | iv.9 | 17 | ii.6 | 26 | iii.6 | 35 | ii.8 | 44 | vi.3 | 53 | i.1 |
| 9 | vi.9 | 18 | v.7 | 27 | iv.3 | 36 | i.5 | 45 | iii.7 | 54 | i.7 |
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The Porphyrian order and numeration of Enneads iv.1 and iv.2 was inverted by Ficino (1492). hs1 and hs2 follow Ficino for the numeration but print the treatises in reverse order. I follow the numeration of hs1 and hs2. For a brief account of the matter, see Igal (1982–1998, ii, 277–278).