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      "title": "IV.1 — On the Essence of the Soul (1)",
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      "subtitle": "Soul as intermediate between the divisible and indivisible",
      "blurb": "Opens the great Plotinian psychology. The essence of soul stands midway between the indivisible nature of Intellect and the divisible nature of bodies — partly each, wholly neither."
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      "subtitle": "Continued",
      "blurb": "Continuation of IV.1 — further refining what kind of being soul is, and how it is present in many bodies at once without division."
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      "subtitle": "On the descent of souls into bodies",
      "blurb": "First of three on the soul's problems. On the descent into the body, the soul's relation to the World-Soul, and how the higher and lower souls coexist."
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      "subtitle": "On memory, perception, and the soul's faculties",
      "blurb": "Continues the soul's problems: memory, sense-perception, the relation of the World-Soul to the individual soul, and the unity of life across the kosmos."
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      "subtitle": "On vision and the medium of perception",
      "blurb": "Concludes the soul's problems with a focused treatise on vision: whether sight requires a medium, the role of light, and the act of perception as the soul's sympathetic awareness."
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      "title": "IV.6 — Perception and Memory",
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      "subtitle": "The soul does not receive imprints",
      "blurb": "Against the doctrine of imprints in the soul. Memory and perception are not impressions made upon a passive soul; the soul is a power that acts and recognizes."
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      "subtitle": "Soul is not body, not harmony, not the entelechy",
      "blurb": "Plotinus's case for the soul's immortality. Against the materialists, against the harmony-theory, and against Aristotle's entelechy-doctrine: the soul is a distinct incorporeal substance and so cannot perish."
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      "subtitle": "The descent as twofold — voluntary and necessary",
      "blurb": "The famous Plotinian doctrine of the soul's twofold descent: it descends both by inner necessity (to bring rational order to the lower) and by self-willed turning. The undescended part remains always above."
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      "slug": "9-are-all-souls-one",
      "title": "IV.9 — Are All Souls One?",
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      "subtitle": "The unity of soul across individuals",
      "blurb": "On whether all individual souls are one. Plotinus argues for a real unity: all souls share in the World-Soul, yet each remains itself — a paradigm of unity-in-multiplicity."
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