Enneads. Plotinus Beginning with a chapter-length … His teacher was the self-taught philosopher Ammonius Saccas, who belonged to the Platonic tradition. The Enneads of Plotinus, Volume 1 | Princeton University Press Plotinus believes that the primary beauty in bodies is something that we, the other people look at and notice at first glance, something that really grabs your attention. Plotinus, the philosopher our contemporary, seemed ashamed of being in the body. “..the soul speaks of it as … Ennead I.6, entitled On Beauty, is relatively important among Plotinus’ treatises: what he sets out here is, in fact, the main concern of his philosophy.Here Plotinus presents the theme of ascent from sensible beauty to its archetype in the intelligible world, an ascent made possible by the existence of a hierarchy of forms (a doctrine which draws on Plato’s Symposium and … Enneads It was Ficino's main working copy of the Greek text and contains many of his marginal annotations. The First Ennead. Plotinus’ ethical theory is mainly discussed in Enneads I 2 [19] On Virtues, I 4 [46] On Well-Being, and Ennead I 3 [20] On Dialectic. The Six Enneads has been divided into the following sections: The First Ennead [221k] The Second Ennead [276k] The Third Ennead [390k] The Fourth Ennead [440k] The Fifth Ennead [284k] The Sixth Ennead [695k] Download: A 1697k text-only version is available for download . The Renaissance of Plotinus Plotinus ( / plɒˈtaɪnəs /; Greek: Πλωτῖνος, Plōtînos; c. 204/5 – 270 CE) was a philosopher in the Hellenistic tradition, born and raised in Roman Egypt.