Proclus is a great philosopher, and he reportedly regarded his Timaeus commentary as his greatest work, but this edition is nothing but a cheap, blurry mimeograph, at best headache-inducing, at worst illegible (especially the notes), and cheaply bound as well! It's a disgrace!

I've not had the pleasure of seeing this particular edition. Mine was a limited edition hardcover by Chthonios Books. I did actually read most of it about 11 years ago.

The format, as you might expect, is a lengthy foreword by Taylor in which he vigorously defends the pagan mysteries, and extensively footnotes Proclus' commentaries throughout. A line or two of Plato is followed by anywhere from a few lines to a few pages by Proclus. IF you enjoy Timaeus, you're almost certain to enjoy this.

Unless you're wildly interested or planning to do postgraduate work on Neoplatonism, however, this very beefy tome is probably best described as a book "for laying down and avoiding".

The enormous amounts of Taylor material make it well worth the cost (assuming a readable edition). Interesting is Taylor's observation that the circulation of the bloodstream was already mentioned in the Timaeus two millenia before William Harvey!

[Samuel Weiser may be carrying a nice hardcover edition?]

The role of values in public policy is certainly a topic worthy of discussion. Unfortunately, this book does not do a fine job of discussing the matter. It presents the typical think tank view of the world - rigidly ideological defenses of policy backed by a boatload of numbers. Values don't work well when forced into the defense of a viewpoint, and work even less when they are being quantified. The ideas of many of the writers, such as James Q. Wilson's notion of an underclass mentality, had been discredited even before they appeared in this work. For a serious discussion of the role of values in public policy, read a book by Rev. Jim Wallis or a like-minded soul, not by a bunch of think-tank technocrats.

Sorry I was sleeping after trying to read this book... ZZZZZZ.

This is the worst study set I have ever read in my life. It is not worth the money you pay. In addition I wouldn't read this it even if I was paid to do so.

- Java Developer Magazine Editor. John Marshall.