Plotinus develops his theory of self-determination by reference to an ideal. He describes what a perfectly rational soul is and how it acts, as a way of saying what we ought to be and how we ought to act. Achieving this ideal involves establishing right reason in charge of our embodied lives, and deriving the premises for our actions from Intellect. The highest layer of consciousness makes this possible. In order for us to achieve this idealized state we must first become aware of the authority of our intellect and place it in charge of our embodied lives. The reason we can attribute a notion of subjectivity to Plotinus without committing him to the modern notion of self-consciousness, deriving from the post-Cartesian tradition, is that the regulative ideals for correct reasoning (orthos logos) and correct action (katorthôsis) are ultimately derived from Intellect. It is Intellect’s contemplative activity that provides the basis for right action, not our own subjective experience. This chapter is thus the capstone for how subjectivity fits into Plotinus’ theory of consciousness.