CONCLUSION

This work has been the product of many years. I have enjoyed feedback in two different venues, presenting small sections at conferences and subsequent publications and writing reviews of works on Plotinus where insights from this study found articulation in conversation with other interpretive schemes that often missed some aspect or other that came to light in my investigations. There are three areas where this has been most apparent to me, one from examining the writings of Plotinus in chronological order, another from understanding passages in the context of the particular treatise in which they occur, and lastly his fluid