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Where i start Plato? I've read all the small dialogues (Gorgias was the biggest one that i read) and i really don't know what order would be the best one.
>inb4 the "Shit Son, You want to read Plato?" Chart
I've tried it, still got out confused

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around here we usually recommend the order laid out by Iamblichus:

First Alcibiades should be read first, then Gorgias, Phaedo, then Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, Phaedrus, Symposium, Philebus, and finally Timaeus and Parmenides

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>>20352301
Hmm, maybe one way to start is by looking at the dialogues surrounding the biggest event of his life: his death. Those dialogues span roughly over a month in time, from Socrates being formally informed he was being charged with something, to the trial itself, and his last days in jail.

That order seems to be:

Euthypho, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, Apology, Crito, Phaedo.

One could fruitfully follow these up with Parmenides and Symposium before taking a look at the other dialogues.