  The drama of human life is viewed by Plotinus against the axis of Good and evil outlined above.  The human person is essentially a soul employing a body as an instrument of its temporary embodied life (see I 1).  Thus, Plotinus distinguishes between the person and the composite of soul and body.  That person is identical with a cognitive agent or subject of cognitive states (see I 1. 7).  An embodied person is, therefore, a conflicted entity, capable both of thought and of being the subject of the composite’s non-cognitive states, such as appetites and emotions.