Part 2 of 2 of a reading of chapter 1, "Unity and Creation: why Plotinus Introduced the Hypostasis Soul", of Damian Caluori's book, Plotinus on the Soul.
why does Plotinus introduce "hypostasis soul" as a distinct entity from individual souls, including the Soul of the whole cosmos? Caluori suggests twobreasons: to account for the peculiar unity of all souls, and for the logical structure of the sensible world.