...................................................................................................................................................... v List of Abbreviations Used ...................................................................................................................... vi Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................... viii Chapter 1 – Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Virtue in the Symposium ........................................................................................................ 1 1.2 Plotinus and the Symposium in Treatise 20 (I, 3) ................................................................... 2 1.3 Virtue in Treatise 19 (I, 2) and Treatise 20 (I, 3) ..................................................................... 3 1.3.1 Why Treatise 19 (I, 2) and 20 (I, 3) Should be Read Together .............................. 6 Chapter 2 in Treatise 19 (I, 2) 1: The Cosmological Picture ......................................... 12 2.1 Treatise 19, Chapter One: We Begin with World Soul ....................................................... 13 2.1.1 The Virtues of the Theaetetus: .............. 14 2.2 The Contemplative Virtue of World Soul: Testimony from Other Treatises ................. 18 2.2.1 Treatises 27 – 29 and the Alcibiades Major: Socrates and World Soul ................ 19 2.2.2 Treatise 33 (II, 9): Against the ‘Gnostic’ Conception of World Soul ................. 36 2.3 The Cosmological Picture: Conclusion ................................................................................ 38 Chapter 3 – Civic Virtue in Treatises 19 (I, 2) and 20 (I, 3) .................................................................. 41 3.1 Civic Virtue Finds its Place Relative to World Soul and Intellect: 1.1-20 ........................ 42 3.2 Two Kinds of Virtue: 1.21-3.10 ............................................................................................. 44 3.2.1 The Godlike Political Men of Tradition: 1.21-26 ................................................. 44 3.2.2 The “Greater Virtues”: 1.21-24 .............................................................................. 45 3.2.3 Two Kinds of Likeness: 2.4-26 ............................................................................... 50