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“This new edition is substantially the same: usefully, it retains the same pagination as the original; it has gained only a good new introduction, and as an appendix a recent essay on a relevant section of Statesman (previously published only on the Web). But the republication of the book is very welcome, if only because Plato's unwritten doctrines are in danger of being altogether forgotten by English-speaking scholars. Hopefully, the book will stir interest in Plato's unwritten teachings in a new generation of scholars. Even if not, at the very least, the book contains a good account of the problems, highlighted by Plato himself in Parmenides, within his middle-period metaphysics, and above all a stimulating and insightful interpretation of the puzzling metaphysical passages of Philebus, which is well worth revisiting . . .”