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In what order should I read Plato's works?

Is there a nice volume collection of a few of his essential works I can pick up?

>> No.8947899

Noob

>> No.8947918

>>8947691
skip it and jump to something that is actually relevant to the 21st century

>> No.8947952 [DELETED] 

>>8947918
This
Skip ahead to Epicurus

>> No.8947965

>>8947691
>Is there a nice volume collection of a few of his essential works I can pick up?
A Plato Reader

>> No.8947972

>>8947918
>>8947952

:^)

>> No.8947975

>>8947691
hackett sells a complete plato

read hamilton's mythology
then euthyphro apology crito phaedo
then aristophanes' frogs
then symposium
then whatever you want

>> No.8947998

>>8947975
*aristophanes' clouds

>> No.8948014

>>8947691
>In what order should I read Plato's works?
Are you familiar with presocratic philosophy? Or philosophy at all? Either way, the safest option is to start with Plato's early dialogues (all of his works are dialogues, and they are classified in 3 periods: the early, the middle and the late). In case you don't want to read all of his early dialogues, I recommend you the following: Eutyphro, Cratyl and Socrates' Trial (sorry I don't know if these names are correct in English, but you know what works I'm referring to). From the mid period: Phaedo, Symposium, Phaedrus. From the late: Theetetus, Timaeus.

Also, ignore the plebs saying you should ignore Plato. Enjoy the reading

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>> No.8948073

>>8948069
What collection is this?

>> No.8948094

>>8947975

The OP clearly asked for a partial collection as opposed to the complete one.

Further, the Hackett is good to have, but its pages are beyond thin. It's not something I'd want to take with me on road trips, going from place to place, etc. It's a you-keep-it-at-your-place book.

>> No.8948095

Read the Apology before everything else, so you can understand Socrates thought properly, else you gonna be another faggot that thinks Socrates is trolling his interlocutor in every dialogue.

>> No.8948646

>>8948073
Benjamin Jowett translation in The Great Books of The Western World.

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>> No.8949776

>>8948094
then he can just buy 5 dialogues + symposium