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PLOTINUS ON THE SOUL Plotinus on the Soul is a study of Plotinus’ psychology, which is arguablythemostsophisticatedPlatonisttheoryofthesoulinanti- quity. Plotinus offers a Platonist response to Aristotelian and Stoic conceptionsofthesoulthatisatthesametimeaninnovativeinter- pretationofPlato’sTimaeus.Heconsidersthenotionofthesoultobe crucialforexplainingtherationalorderoftheworld.Tothisend,he discussesnotonlydifferenttypesofindividualsoul(suchasthesouls ofthestars,andhumanandanimalsouls)butalsoanentitythathe was the first to introduce into philosophy: the so-called hypostasis Soul.Thisisthefirststudytoprovideadetailedexplanationofthis entity,butitalsodiscussestheothertypesofsoul,withanemphasis onthehumansoul,andexplainsPlotinus’originalviewsonrational thoughtanditsrelationtoexperience. damian caluori is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Trinity University,SanAntonioTexas.Hisresearchfocusesonancientphilo- sophy,withanemphasisonlateancientPlatonism.Hehaspublished articles on Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Damascius and the Renaissance skepticFranciscusSanchez,whosemainwork,ThatNothingisKnown, heco-translatedfromLatinintoGerman.In2013heeditedavolume onthephilosophyoffriendship,ThinkingaboutFriendship:Historical andContemporaryPhilosophicalPerspectives. PLOTINUS ON THE SOUL DAMIAN CALUORI UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107105959 ©DamianCaluori2015 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2015 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyClays,StIvesplc AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata Caluori,Damian,1970– Plotinusonthesoul/DamianCaluori. pages cm isbn978-1-107-10595-9 1. Plotinus. 2. Soul. I. Title. b693.z7c35 2015 1280.1092–dc23 2014048681 isbn978-1-107-10595-9Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication, anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. To the memory of Michael Frede To the memory of my parents, Moritz and Agnes Caluori-Caminada Contents Prefaceandacknowledgements pageix Listofabbreviations xii Introduction 1 1 Unityandcreation:whyPlotinusintroduced thehypostasisSoul 15 Theunityofallsouls 17 TheCraftsmanandthecreationofasensibleworld 25 2 ThehypostasisSoul 37 ThehypostasisIntellectandtheTimaeanLivingBeing 38 Propositionalandnon-propositionalthought 44 Theoreticalandpracticalthought 51 Creation,contemplationandtheCraftsman 61 3 ThehypostasisSoulanditsrelationtoindividualsouls 69 Beingoneandmany 70 ThehypostasisIntellect,individualintellectsandtheir individuation 78 ThehypostasisSoul,individualsoulsandtheirindividuation 86 4 Theindividualsoulintheintelligibleandinthe sensibleworld 91 Thetwolivesoftheindividualsoul 92 Thepriorityofthelifeintheintelligibleworld 101 5 Divineindividualsouls 111 TheWorldSoul 112 Thesoulsofthestars 120 Thesouloftheearth 125 Theblissfullyunperturbedlifeofdivinesouls 128 vii viii Contents 6 Thehumansoul:itsdescentanditsconfusion inthesensibleworld 134 Descentasexperience 134 Experienceandtheconfusionofthehumansoulinthesensibleworld 146 7 Thehumansoul:thehigherandthelowersoul 152 Thehighersoulanditspowerinthesensibleworld 153 Thelowersoulasfacultyofpresentation 163 DoesthelowersoulstemfromtheWorldSoul? 171 8 Thesoulandthebody 180 Beingin 180 Nature,thetraceofthesoulandthequalifiedbody 186 Animalsandplants 192 Bibliography 198 Generalindex 211 Indexlocorum 219

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Plotinus on the Soul is a study of Plotinus' psychology, which is arguably the most sophisticated Platonist theory of the soul in antiquity. Plotinus offers a Platonist response to Aristotelian and Stoic conceptions of the soul that is at the same time an innovative interpretation of Plato's Timaeus
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