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What is the best reading order for Plato?

>> No.7814593

Start with the trial

>> No.7814607

>>7814578
Start with the Apology, and then read whatever. There is a "dramatic order" that can be inferred (take the dialogues at the end of Socrates' life: Theaetetus, Euthyphro, Cratylus, Sophist, Statesman, Apology, Crito, Phaedo all *happen* in that order), but the order has nothing to do with an order for reading, but rather points to certain relations between groups of works.

Don't worry about order. Plato isn't grasped upon any initial reading, but upon subsequent re-readings and study.

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>> No.7814659

>>7814607
>Plato isn't grasped upon any initial reading, but upon subsequent re-readings and study.

i mean obviously re-studying has its merits, but plato's such a competent writer that the logic behind his arguments are genuinely not too difficult to grasp. A lot of the allegorical stuff requires thinking and deliberation (as it's more intuitive than formal) but you're still getting a considerable amount of information from an initial reading