Plotinus on What We Think We Are

Wiebke-Marie Stock, (Universität Bonn, Germany; University of Notre Dame, USA) works on ancient philosophy with a focus on Plato and the Platonic tradition. Her publications include Plotinus. Ennead III 4. On Our Allotted Guardian Spirit (2020) and Theurgisches Denken. Zur "Kirchlichen Hierarchie" des Dionysius Areopagita (2008).

Preface



Introduction

 1 Soul

 2 “We”—self, I, person?

 3 Methodology

 4 Plan



1 Plotinus on the “we”—with, against and beyond Plato



2 Each individual one of us

 1 Soul and composite being

 2 Mine, yours, ours

 3 Individuality

 4 We living beings



3 We as ethical subject

 1 Our proper activity

 2 Masters of ourselves

 3 We, the sage



4 The location of the we

 1 The One and “we”

 2 Our intellect



5 We as the center of consciousness

 1 Inner consciousness

 2 Unconscious to us

 3 The daimôn and “we”

 4 Consciousness

 5 Memory



6 We are double

 1 Who are we?

 2 The god in us

 3 We and the image of the soul

 4 The passions and we



7 We philosophers



8 We are multiple

 1 Soul and body

 2 We perceivers

 3 We are most of all there

 4 We are multiple

 5 We are double

 6 Consciousness

 7 We or the soul?



Conclusion



Bibliography

Index