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

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

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>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.

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

Thank you. What about the Euthydemus?

>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.

Thanks, user-sama.

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Theatetus was such a wilde ride

read everything scholars agree was actually written by Plato

Entschuldigung?

>disregarding Sophist

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?

>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.

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

this. Sophist is the bomb.com

>inviting
might as well fuck a skeleton

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Idk you should really love them if they're essential

great for a laugh

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

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

pleb here. Who is Dionysodorus?

his pal

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

And he can do anything?

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

so they say

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underrated

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My diary desu. Collected Dialogues with my Platonic GF.

>Apology
>Phaedo
>Symposium
>Phaedrus
>essential

>disregarded Sophist

>doesn't even list Euthydemus

What the fuck is wrong with you?

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