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6.2 On the Kinds of Being: Second Treatise

Plotinus' own views about genera and how they agree with Plato

Whether genus is a first principle, if it is a unity, the number of genera there are, what is meant by the Existent

Genera can be principles/species of Being

4 in body, there are three distinguishable characteristics: pseudo-substance, quantity, and quality
- motion also if it is "equally inherent in its constitution"
- body as a coming-to-be

Soul is an essence, holding from no source external to its own essence
- similar to Being. If it's individuality makes Soul depend upon something outside it (that which determines it's individuality), then something external to Soul is determining it's essence(or part of it)

7 observable entities in this plurality(sensible existence)
- Substance(Essence) simultaneously present in Soul
- Motion(with energy, the Act of Being(this changes in 15. Motion is the Act of Substance))
- Stability

Five genera in the Becoming realm
- Being, Motion, Stability, Identity, Difference (Being is omitted in 15 and is then rather the primary of the other four)

Being is a unity in relation to All-Soul but plural when outward toward sensibles

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Unity is not a genus, though in some way it is contained in Being
- something can have unity in terms of more or less (but not being) such as a choir
- Unity is identical with Goodness

13 Why Quantity/Quality are not among primary genera

Primaries are permanently associated with Being
- Quantity/Quality are posterior

17-19 Why beauty/goodness/virtues/knowledge/intelligence aren't primary genera

20 the particular intellects exist potentially in the self-existent universal Intellect
- the universal Intellect, as a genus of the particulars, is the potentiality of the subordinate intellects(which also are not actualized but latent in it)
- the particulars are actualized by Acts in the universal