INCORPOREAL SOUL AND INCORPOREAL MATTER

In III.6[26], Plotinus takes up the task of examining the consequences of the incorporeality of matter and the soul. Because matter and the soul are so close to the corporeal, it almost seems that their incorporeality is necessarily compromised. Plotinus shows, however, that their incorporeal nature keeps them free of the alteration and affection associated with body, but for very different reasons. After a brief look at the difficulties involved in the relation of soul and body, most of the treatise is spent on the matter of the sensible world and relies more centrally on examining Platonic texts, especially from