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Which dialogues are must-read and which are skippable?

>> No.12310865

>>12310856
All of them and none.

>> No.12310867

Must read:
Lysis, Charmides, Symposium
Skippable:
The rest

>> No.12310869

>>12310867
r u gay

>> No.12310874

>>12310856
Why would you even want to skip any of them, Plato is great

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>>12310856
Am I a brainlet for not being able to understand Parmenides

>> No.12311062

>>12311019
Nah, it’s the most difficult one.

>> No.12311093

>>12311019
It's ok, Plato didn't understand it either

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12311113

It depends on what you mean by "must read", but if I were to give a trimmed reading list for plato I would say:
>Euthpyro
>Apology
>Crito
>Phaedo
>Phaedrus
>Symposium
>Gorgias
>Protagoras
>Sophist
>Thaeatetus
>Parmenides
>Republic
>Timeaus

>> No.12311114

>>12311019
Are you an intellectual?

>> No.12311330

>>12311019
Second half of Parmenides is pretty difficult and barely qualifies as a dialogue. Many have tried to decipher it.

>> No.12311355

>>12311113
this with
>Meno
before the Parmenides

>> No.12311358

>>12310865
This.

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>>12311355
Wouldn't you put meno closer to phaedo as the argument is explicitly mentioned in that dialogue (the argument for knowledge as memory of past lives)

>> No.12311485

Must-read:
Meno, Phaedo, The Republic, Parmenides, Timaeus
Could read, but aren't quite as necessary or essential:
Apology, Crito, Symposium, Protagoras, Gorgias, Cratylus, Phaedrus, Theaetetus, The Sophist, The Statesman
Better off worth ignoring:
All of the other ones

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>>12311485
>Could read, but aren't quite as necessary or essential:
>Apology, Crito, Symposium, Protagoras, Gorgias, Cratylus, Phaedrus, Theaetetus, The Sophist, The Statesman

>> No.12311532

>>12311391
are you gonna avatarfag from Bernard-jou iwaku now?

>> No.12311541

>>12311485
>not quite essential
jesus christ off yourself

>> No.12311546

>>12311485
What are you talking about nigger, Theaetetus is essential to understand Plato's epistemology.