Damian CaluoriCambridge University Press, 6/25/2015EAN 9781107105959, ISBN10: 1107105951Hardcover, 238 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cmLanguage: EnglishPlotinus 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. He considers the notion of the soul to be crucial for explaining the rational order of the world. To this end, he discusses not only different types of individual soul (such as the souls of the stars, and human and animal souls) but also an entity that he was the first to introduce into philosophy: the so-called hypostasis Soul. This is the first study to provide a detailed explanation of this entity, but it also discusses the other types of soul, with an emphasis on the human soul, and explains Plotinus' original views on rational thought and its relation to experience.Introduction1. Unity and creationwhy Plotinus introduced the hypostasis Soul2. The hypostasis Soul3. The hypostasis Soul and its relation to individual souls4. The individual soul in the intelligible and in the sensible world5. Divine individual souls6. The human soulits descent and its confusion in the sensible world7. The human soulthe higher and the lower soul8. The soul and the body.
