Readings in Platonism

2.2 Plotinus on the Soul: Chapter 1: "Unity and Creation: why Plotinus Introduced the Hypostasis Soul" (part 1 of 2)


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Part 1 of 2 of a reading of chapter one "Unity and Creation: Why Plotinus Introduced the Hypostasis Soul" of Damian Caluori's book Plotinus on the Soul.
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Why does Plotinus introduce what will come to be called "hypostasis soul", as a distinct entity from individual souls, including the soul of the cosmos? Caluori suggests two reasons: to account for the peculiar unity of all souls, and to account for the logical structure of the sensible world.
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Readings in PlatonismBy Allen Anderson