The conception of alethes anthropos in Plotinus’ Enneads

Abstrakt

The paper presents the ontological aspects of the conception of alethes anthropos and the problem of relations between individual human being and hypostases Psyche and Nous. According to Enn. I. 1 [53] the nature of man is twofold – man is zoon on the one hand, and man is psyche on the second. But in the light of Plotinus’ monopsychism the genuine dimension of our being owns a beyond-individual character. The real capability of unification with Nous is one of the activities inherently connected with dynamical nature of Soul. The levels of human consciousness are identical with the gradation of activities of Psyche taken as hypostasis and alethes anthropos epresents the epistrophical return to Intellect.