Ursula Coope is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Keble College, and an Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College. Before coming to Oxford, she was a lecturer at Birkbeck. She has held visiting positions at Princeton and at New York University. She has been the recipient of a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship and of a Philip Leverhulme Prize. She is the author of Time for Aristotle (Oxford 2005) and has also written several articles on Aristotle's accounts of change, agency, and the infinite.

Ursula Coope has published a knowledgeable, clearly arguing study of considerable breadth and depth. Anyone concerned with the Neoplatonic discussion of freedom will read this book with profit.

• Introduction Part I: The Puzzles 1: Freedom and enslavement 2: Responsibility, voluntariness, and what depends on us 3: Freedom and responsibility: Two discourses combined 4: Obstacles to freedom? Obstacles to responsibility? Part II: Freedom 5: Freedom and the One 6: Under the One but in control of oneself 7: Self-making and nonbodiliness 8: Freedom, dependence and being a part Part III: Responsibility 9: Responsibility and the myth of Er 10: Plotinus on responsibility and having a free principle 11: Proclus on self-movement and the logoi within 12: Rational assent and self-determination to the better or the worse Conclusion

Ursula Coope is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Keble College, and an Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College. Before coming to Oxford, she was a lecturer at Birkbeck. She has held visiting positions at Princeton and at New York University. She has been the recipient of a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship and of a Philip Leverhulme Prize. She is the author of Time for Aristotle (Oxford 2005) and has also written several articles on Aristotle's accounts of change, agency, and the infinite.

Ursula Coope has published a knowledgeable, clearly arguing study of considerable breadth and depth. Anyone concerned with the Neoplatonic discussion of freedom will read this book with profit.

• Introduction Part I: The Puzzles 1: Freedom and enslavement 2: Responsibility, voluntariness, and what depends on us 3: Freedom and responsibility: Two discourses combined 4: Obstacles to freedom? Obstacles to responsibility? Part II: Freedom 5: Freedom and the One 6: Under the One but in control of oneself 7: Self-making and nonbodiliness 8: Freedom, dependence and being a part Part III: Responsibility 9: Responsibility and the myth of Er 10: Plotinus on responsibility and having a free principle 11: Proclus on self-movement and the logoi within 12: Rational assent and self-determination to the better or the worse Conclusion

Ursula Coope is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Keble College, and an Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College. Before coming to Oxford, she was a lecturer at Birkbeck. She has held visiting positions at Princeton and at New York University. She has been the recipient of a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship and of a Philip Leverhulme Prize. She is the author of Time for Aristotle (Oxford 2005) and has also written several articles on Aristotle's accounts of change, agency, and the infinite.

Ursula Coope has published a knowledgeable, clearly arguing study of considerable breadth and depth. Anyone concerned with the Neoplatonic discussion of freedom will read this book with profit.

• Introduction Part I: The Puzzles 1: Freedom and enslavement 2: Responsibility, voluntariness, and what depends on us 3: Freedom and responsibility: Two discourses combined 4: Obstacles to freedom? Obstacles to responsibility? Part II: Freedom 5: Freedom and the One 6: Under the One but in control of oneself 7: Self-making and nonbodiliness 8: Freedom, dependence and being a part Part III: Responsibility 9: Responsibility and the myth of Er 10: Plotinus on responsibility and having a free principle 11: Proclus on self-movement and the logoi within 12: Rational assent and self-determination to the better or the worse Conclusion