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The product of body and soul is called the living being (τò ζῷоν), sometimes the compound (τò иоινóν, τò σύνϑετоν or τò συναμφóτερоν).1 As one might expect from Plotinus’ description of the union of body and soul it is not an entity in which the two are transformed,2 but rather a partnership, albeit of unequals: “The living being is not some other thing resulting from the change or mixture of both in such a way that the soul is only potentially in the body (IV.3.26.20–2).3 This compound is the subject of all those activities which involve both body and soul.
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© 1971 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Blumenthal, H.J. (1971). The Faculties (i). In: Plotinus’ Psychology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2989-6_3
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