 Interesting differences between Porphyry and Plotinus can be detected in their respective views on the emotions and on happiness. While Plotinus holds that the emotions should be eradicated and that happiness consists in the life of Intellect alone, the perfect life (Ennead I.4.3), Porphyry recommends metriopatheia, “moderate emotions”, and allows for degrees of happiness. Not only the intellectually virtuous person is happy, the civically virtuous person is happy too, even if this is a lower form of happiness (see Karamanolis 2006: 303–308). These differences reflect Porphyry’s endeavor to bring Plato and Aristotle into harmony.