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HoP 089 - On the Horizon - Plotinus on the Soul

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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The Process of Intellect

Plotinus believes that the entire cosmos has a single soul, the so-called world soul. It is responsible for arranging things that seem to have no soul - plants and rocks. Plotinus: 'The form of man is indivisible, eternal, and perfect' But even Buster Keaton was nothing of the sort, never mind the rest of us. So how does it come about that the cosmos is so rife with evil? The wicked witch of the west put it best. What a world, what a world.

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