View Of Plotinus Soul

In spite of an increasing number of domestic researches on Neo-Platonism inrecent years, Plotinus, as the last uncontroversial master philosopher in ancient Greece,is still being ignored owing to a small amount of researches on him. And as the key ofPlotinus’s thoughts, the Soul should be paid more attention. The core of the Soul is howthe Soul completes from a lower part to a higher part along the same road, and finallyachieves the ultimate goal of uniting with God. Along the "the One”--“theIntelligence" Emanation to the physical world, the Soul extricates itself from physicalshackles through self-purification, rises to the sensible world through beauty, culminatesback to “the One” and unites with it by virtue of dialectics. In today’s material society,people have lost their spiritual pursuit and have been contaminated by the mere worldlypossessions. And the study of Plotinus’s the Soul could help people contemplate andreturn to nature so as to find the true meaning of existence.