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Which Platonic Dialogues are essential and which can be safely disregarded?

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>> No.9110307

>essential (vaguely in order of reading)
Euthypro
Crito
Apology
Phaedo
Symposium (can be read at any time at all, my absolute favorite)
Protagoras
Gorgias
Phaedrus
Letter Seven
Meno
Republic
Statesman
Timaeus
Lysis
Parmenides
Theaetetus
Philebus
>disregarded
Laches
Sophist
Cratylus
Ion
Charmides
Clitophon
Probably Laws because it's too much of an investment, unless political theory is what you're reading Plato for.

>> No.9110311

>>9110307
I should add that Letter Seven & Phaedrus should be read in conjunction in you have any interest in the "unwritten doctrine" of Plato.

>> No.9110346

>>9110307
Thank you. What about the Euthydemus?

>> No.9110354

>>9110346
>Euthydemus
oh yeah, I figured that list was incomplete. I haven't paid much attention to that work, I don't think it's necessary. It might be interesting to you if you like the discussion of rhetoric in Gorgias/Protagoras. Ultimately not a really remarkable work, though.

Also: if you have a complete edition that collects all of the letters attributed to Plato they can be interesting, but should be taken with a grain of salt.

>> No.9110377

>>9110354
Thanks, anon-sama.

>> No.9110475

I miss all the slim girls I've had sex with. I hate you op

>> No.9110487

>>9110307
Theatetus was such a wilde ride

>> No.9110735

>>9110275
read everything scholars agree was actually written by Plato

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>>9110307
Entschuldigung?

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>>9110307
>disregarding Sophist

>> No.9110814

>>9110275
NOT AGAIN! I cannot go more than a day without being accosted by these small waited succubi.

In these pictures they are always so inviting. Displaying their fertile mounds to be readily furrowed by my meaty plow but in reality they only bite down on my cock as soon as it enters them and sucks me dry of blood and money.

Oh! To be a man in the 21st century is truly one of the most cruel and unusual fates imaginable!

Will the suffering ever end?

>> No.9110844

>>9110275
>essential

from what perspective? if you really want to know philosophy for its own sake, read them all. if not, read the ones most relevant to your interests.

>> No.9110847

>>9110814
>Displaying their fertile mounds to be readily furrowed by my meaty plow
he's back

>> No.9110856

>>9110758
this. Sophist is the bomb.com

>> No.9110862

>>9110814
>inviting
might as well fuck a skeleton

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>>9110814

>> No.9111124

>>9110275
Idk you should really love them if they're essential

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>>9110346
great for a laugh

>> No.9111127

>>9111111
checked

>> No.9111128

>>9111111
Based

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>>9110275
>Which Platonic Dialogues are essential
None
>Which can be safely disregarded
All of them

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>>9110814
Came here for this comment, was expecting the pasta but this is good too

>> No.9111166

>>9111126
pleb here. Who is Dionysodorus?

>> No.9111194

>>9111166
his pal

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>>9110307
>just getting into philosophy/plato
>read trial of socrates first, find it interesting and not difficult
>unwittingly jumped right into parmenides after that

>> No.9111213

>>9111194
And he can do anything?

>> No.9111220

>>9110814
>>9110847

honestly im into it. i get all kinds of fuckin sprung on this board and this anon gets it.

>> No.9111225

>>9111213
so they say

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>>9111197

>> No.9111366

>>9111197
underrated

>> No.9111766

>>9110814
This is my new favorite /lit/ meme.

>> No.9111781

>>9110275
My diary desu. Collected Dialogues with my Platonic GF.

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>>9110307

>Apology
>Phaedo
>Symposium
>Phaedrus
>essential

>disregarded Sophist

>doesn't even list Euthydemus

What the fuck is wrong with you?

>>9110275
Essential, in order
Euthyphro
Meno
Euthydemus
Republic
Theaetetus

If you still want to read more Plato

Parmenides
Sophist
Statesman
Philebus

I don't know what can be safely disregarded but I hate with a passion Cratylus. I know nothing about the laws and letters