/lit/ - Literature

>>15937293
Laws is tragically underrated.
Also Lysis read more esoterically reveals the truths of Agathon and prefigures Symposium.
Protagoras prefigures dialogues such as Gorgias and Theaetetus and firs third of Republic, it's also an answer to the accusations held against Meno.
And Crito, obviously, as a defense against the supposed rationalizing by Plato, the so common accusations that Plato was a 'demystifyer', same with Phaedrus that ends with prayer.
Euthydemus is also a hilarious dialogue that works against deconstructionists and relativists, it's not 'necessary' but nor is it a hassle and rather an enjoyment to go through.
The most important thing to know about Plato is that all the dialogues share in UR-Platonism and that they form a coherent proto-systematic whole, one must discard the false interpreters that sprung form Schleiermacher's vomit over the past 2 centuries that have now been undone and cleaned up Gerson, the Diadochus of our time.

Why haven't you read it yet

>>15608276
ignore that and read these

Ignore everything said about Plato for the past 200 years unless it agrees with these or was said by Thomas Taylor.