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“Mohr's collection of essays has remained over the years one of the standard reference books for Timaeus . . . . [he] was and remains right to insist on the importance of Timaeus to a number of central Platonic issues. . . I continue to applaud his insistence that we take Timaeus literally. . . . But the real interest of the revised edition is that, as the change of title suggests, the balance has shifted so that the book is not so much about issues of cosmology and natural science in Plato, as about metaphysics. Naturally – since it is impossible to discuss Plato's cosmology without taking his metaphysical views into account – this was a wide and rich vein in the original volume, and the newly added essays enrich it. Mohr made valuable contributions to our understanding of Platonic forms, by arguing, for instance, for the irreducible uniqueness and unanalysable individuality of each middle-period form, such that it cannot ultimately be described in terms of other forms and is truly accessible only to direct experience. By making his recent work on Platonic metaphysics and epistemology (especially on the Divided Line of Republic) more accessible, Mohr will guarantee his controversial views the airing they deserve.”