Can you answer each question clear and straight. there are total 8 questions. I will provide lecture notes for your and you can possibly find each answer within the lecture notes. Otherwise, you can do some research to find these theories online.

(1) Plotinus and Porphyry each argue that the human being is ‘really’ his intellect (or rational soul). How is this related to the body? Are their views the same or different? Assess.

(2) Plotinus rejects the account of the good life offered by Aristotle, Epicurus, and the Stoics. What is wrong with these views? What view does Plotinus put forward as a better alternative? Is he right?

(3) Plotinus insists that the “ascent of beauty” culminates with the desire to unite oneself to the (intelligible) Form of Beauty. What does this mean, and why does he think so?

(4) How is it possible to contemplate the One, if it is beyond Intellect (and hence beyond understanding)? Is this a coherent goal or not? Defend your answer.

(5) What does Plotinus mean when he claims that part of the intellective soul is “undescended”? Why does he think so? Assess his view.

(6) Assess: “Plotinus claims that the One is beyond intellect and transcends thinking. How, then, can he make so many pronouncements about it, pretending to a knowledge he declares impossible in principle?”

(7) Plotinus holds that Intellect is the “father” of Soul. What does this mean, and why does he think so?

(8) How does Plotinus think the many Intelligibles are related to (a) Intellect, (b) Being, and (c) the One?