Plotinus thought that the entire world has a single soul. He also thought that each animal and plant and of course human, has an individual soul. Peter Adamson More Quotes by Peter Adamson More Quotes From Peter Adamson Assuming there is an intellect, we're clearly not this universal intellect or we would know it. So that's one function of soul. Peter Adamson function assuming soul Soul puts the determination or forms or images of forms, into matter. Peter Adamson determination soul matter The importance of Plotinus is not only his own philosophical ideas which are quite interesting, but his historical impact as the founder of neo-Platonism which is the main philosophical tradition of late antiquity. Peter Adamson philosophical impact ideas