Parts of the Soul in Plotinus

Plotinus on Beauty

“…It seems to me that if we disconnect a soul's individual intellect from the rest of soul and if we deny that individual intellect is something like "the highest part of soul", it becomes very difficult (if not impossible) to explain the union with Intellect, let alone with the Good. For a discussion of Plotinus' enigmatic account of soul and its parts, see Caluori 2015, Karfík 2014band Blumenthal 1996, 1974, 1971 having to reach the form first by purging the body. As we have seen, this domination of a form within a body can be hindered by other forms and, perhaps, by inadequate participation in a form (both in the sense of an excess and a lack).…”