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What do you think of this guy reading order

>1st tetralogy (getting started): Alcibiades I + Lysis/Laches/Charmides
>2nd tetralogy (the sophists): Protagoras +Hippias major/Hippias minor/Gorgias
>3rd tetralogy (Socrates'trial): Meno + Euthyphro/Apology/Crito
>4th tetralogy (the soul): Symposium + Phædrus/Republic/Phædo
>5th tetralogy (logos): Cratylus + Ion/Euthydemus/Menexenus
>6th tetralogy (dialectic): Parmenides + Theætetus/Sophist/Statesman
>7th tetralogy (kosmos): Philebus + Timæus/Critias/Laws

What order do you recommend? I already read about 10 dialogue once or twice in a random order and would like to have a more structured approach

>> No.22091089

>>22091085
hot take, i like the dramatic order or chronological order but you should skip parmenides and come back to it last, start with Protagoras, Alcibades, Charmendies and republuc

>> No.22091182

>>22091085
Go by the Thrasyllus order of the Hackett book. That is the traditional one and it is very non-controversial outside of minor concerns.
>>22091089
Parmenides should definitely be last but I don’t understand easy to read aporia dialogues like Charmides paired with Protagoras which has relative depth.

>> No.22091250

>>22091089
This anon knows his shit.

>> No.22092322

Bump

>> No.22092357

If you want to know the value of the Bernard Suzanne reading order then read the supplementary material he provides as explanation for his order. I think his order definitely had pedagogical value but I have not completed it so I can only speculate. Currently on Charmides