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Full Idea
Soul, for all the worth we have shown to belong to it, is yet a secondary, an image of the Intellectual-Principle [Nous]; reason uttered is an image of reason stored within the soul, and similarly soul is an utterance of the Intellectual-Principle.
Gist of Idea
Even the soul is secondary to the Intellectual-Principle [Nous], of which soul is an utterance
Source
Plotinus (The Enneads [c.245], 5.1.03)
Book Ref
Plotinus: 'The Enneads', ed/tr. Mackenna,Stephen [Penguin 1991], p.350
A Reaction
It then turns out that Nous is secondary to the One, so there is a hierarchy of Being (which only enters at the Nous stage).
Related Ideas
Idea 21810 The Stoics distinguished spoken logos from logos within the mind [Stoic school, by Plotinus]
Idea 21808 Soul is author of all of life, and of the stars, and it gives them law and movement [Plotinus]
6922 | Ecstasy is for the neo-Platonist the highest psychological state of man [Plotinus, by Feuerbach] |
5506 | If soul was like body, its parts would be separate, without communication [Plotinus] |
21809 | Our soul has the same ideal nature as the oldest god, and is honourable above the body [Plotinus] |
21808 | Soul is author of all of life, and of the stars, and it gives them law and movement [Plotinus] |
21811 | Even the soul is secondary to the Intellectual-Principle [Nous], of which soul is an utterance [Plotinus] |
21812 | Being is the product of pure intellect [Plotinus] |
21813 | Number determines individual being [Plotinus] |
21816 | Soul is the logos of Nous, just as Nous is the logos of the One [Plotinus] |
21814 | How can multiple existence arise from the unified One? [Plotinus] |
21815 | Because the One is immobile, it must create by radiation, light the sun producing light [Plotinus] |
21817 | The One does not exist, but is the source of all existence [Plotinus] |
21824 | The One is a principle which transcends Being [Plotinus] |
21825 | The soul is outside of all of space, and has no connection to the bodily order [Plotinus] |
21826 | The Soul reasons about the Right, so there must be some permanent Right about which it reasons [Plotinus] |
21827 | The movement of Soul is continuous, but we are only aware of the parts of it that are sensed [Plotinus] |
21828 | A person is the whole of their soul [Plotinus] |