"What is an individual? Is the self predetermined or free? Plotinus (204-70 CE) answers by considering what distinguishes human souls from one another on each level of their unifications with Soul, Intellect and the One. The latter is the only partless individual, and the partic…
As the most important philosophical work to emerge in the 700-year period between Aristotle and Augustine, The Enneads has been subject to intense scrutiny for more than 2000 years. But the mystical and abstract nature of these treatises by Plotinus continues to resist easy eluc…