On the Immortality of the Soul (Plotinus, Ennead IV. 7)

In this session, we’ll listen to Plotinus’ tractate On the Immortality of the Soul (Ennead IV.7), one of his clearest and most rigorous treatments of what the soul is — and why it cannot perish (about 50 minutes).
Plotinus argues that the soul does not merely survive the body, but belongs to an entirely different order of being: intelligible, self-moving, and rooted above time and change. This text deepens and radicalizes the Platonic view found in the Phaedo, pushing it into fully developed Late Platonism.

Key themes include:

• Why the soul is not a body, nor dependent on body
• The soul’s relation to Intellect and the intelligible realm
• What it really means to say the soul is “immortal”
• How embodiment and separation from the body are understood in Plotinus

Here's the text if you’d like to check it out beforehand - https://w.wiki/HkGC

After listening, we’ll open a shared discussion around questions such as:

• In what sense is the soul immortal for Plotinus?
• How does this account differ from Plato’s Phaedo?
• What part of us never descends — and never dies?
• How does this change how we understand life, death, and philosophy?

Beginners are very welcome, but this is advanced material.

You’ll get much more out of the discussion if you check out this Introduction to Neoplatonism beforehand.