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Cover -- Freedom And Responsibility In Neoplatonist Thought -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: The Puzzles -- 1: Freedom And Enslavement -- 1. Four Views Of Freedom And Slavery: Plato And Beyond -- (i) Freedom As Independence -- (ii) Freedom As Wish-fulfilment -- (iii) Freedom As Reason-guidedness -- (iv) Freedom As What Befits The Free -- 2. The Stoics And The View That Only The Sage Is Free -- 3. Freedom And Being Self-determined (aftexoúsios) -- 2: Responsibility, Voluntariness, And What Depends On Us 1. Plato On Punishment And Blameworthiness -- 2. Aristotle On The Voluntary -- 3. Rationality And Fate: Hellenistic Philosophers, Middle Platonists, And Alexander Of Aphrodisias -- 3: Freedom And Responsibility: Two Discourses Combined -- 1. Epictetus: What Is Free By Nature And What Depends On Us -- 2. Alexander Of Aphrodisias On Freedom And Responsibility -- 3. Plotinus: Freedom And What Depends On Us -- 4. Some Questions That Arise Out Of This Discussion -- 4: Obstacles To Freedom? Obstacles To Responsibility? -- 1. Ignorance, Voluntariness, And What Depends On Us 2. Appetite, Emotion, And Desire -- 3. Being Fated -- Part Ii: Freedom -- 5: Freedom And The One -- 1. Plotinus's Initial Puzzle: Two Arguments Suggesting That Nothing Depends On The One -- 2. The Argument To Silence And Plotinus's Response To It -- 3. Improper Speaking And Not Saying What You Want To Say -- 4. Why Not Go Away In Silence? -- 5. Self-determination And Duality: The Deep Problem Posed By The Rash Statement -- 6. Implications And Further Questions -- 6: Under The One But In Control Of Oneself -- 1. Plotinus: Freedom And Controlling One's Own Nature 2. Iamblichus: Self-constitution, Freedom, And The Soul -- 3. Proclus: Self-constitution And Control Over One's Activities -- 7: Self-making And Nonbodiliness -- 1. Self-making And The Priority Of The Agent -- 2. Self-making And The Distinction Between Maker And Made -- 3. Procl