Plotinus on the Articulation of Being

Ennead Vi.2 presents itself as Plotinus\u27 official account of the structure of the second Hypostasis, i.e. Intellect (νοῦς) or Being, what corresponds in his metaphysical universe to Plato\u27s realm of Ideas or Forms. Having refuted the Peripatetic and Stoic theories in VI.1, he turns to developing his own view of Being, which he intends to be in agreement with Plato\u27s. Indeed, the account of the \u27genera of being\u27 that he give in VI.2 is closely modeled on Plato\u27s discussion of the so-called \u27greatest kinds\u27 or megista gene in the Sophist