No. 63 (2022): Mayo-agosto
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Individuality and Consciousness in Plotinus

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  • María Jesús Hermoso Félix
María Jesús Hermoso Félix
Universidad de Valladolid
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v63i0.1961

Published 2022-04-18

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Hermoso Félix, M. J. (2022). Individuality and Consciousness in Plotinus. Tópicos, Revista De Filosofía, (63), 303–332. https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v63i0.1961

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Abstract

The notion of “individuality” in Plotinus is one of the most discussed. Throughout the Enneads, the problem of the individual subject arises from the complexity in understanding the relation between man and soul. To the intelligible man, also known as the inner or first man, a second man is added, so that “we have come to be the pair of them” (En. VI 4 (22) 14.28-30). This question has been extensively addressed from different angles that lead either to a purely structuralist solution, or to its criticism and the search for a more stable definition of subjective identity. The thesis that we will defend in this article, and that will indicate our position in the debate, tries to give a new perspective of the issue alluding to the sphere of life and its forms. The continuity between the different men will be determined by the continuity between their different forms of life, a primary issue to which the problem of individuality and the different modes of consciousness are subject.

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