Dialogues of Plato

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Dialogues of Plato is a foundational collection of philosophical texts in which the ancient Greek thinker Plato explores ethics, politics, metaphysics, and epistemology through conversations, often featuring Socrates as the central character.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Greek literature
philosophical work collection
associatedPhilosophicalSchool Platonism
author Plato
centralTheme definition of virtue
immortality of the soul
nature of justice
theory of Forms
containsWork Alcibiades I
linked to: Alcibiades

Apology
Charmides
Cratylus
Critias
Crito
Euthydemus
Euthyphro
Gorgias
Hippias Major
Hippias Minor
Ion
Laches
Laws
Lysis
Menexenus
linked to: Menexenus (Plato)

Meno
Parmenides
Phaedo
Phaedrus
Philebus
Protagoras
Republic
Sophist
linked to: Sophists

Statesman
Symposium
linked to: Συμπόσιον

Theaetetus
Timaeus
explores epistemology
ethics
metaphysics
politics
genre philosophical dialogue
influenced Christian theology
Islamic philosophy
Renaissance humanism
Western philosophy
language Ancient Greek
mainCharacter Socrates
philosophicalMethod dialectic
primaryForm conversation
settingPeriod Classical Athens
traditionalAttribution Plato

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Rhadamanthus sourceText Dialogues of Plato
Glaucon sourceOfInformation Platonic dialogues
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Iamblichus of Chalcis commentaryOn Plato’s dialogues
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Hermogenes workPartOfCorpus Platonic dialogues
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Thrasyllan tetralogies appliesTo Plato's dialogues
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Benjamin Jowett notableWork The Dialogues of Plato Translated into English
linked to: Dialogues of Plato
Apollodorus of Phaleron knownFromWork Plato's dialogues
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Ficino's Latin translation of Plato contains Plato's dialogues
linked to: Dialogues of Plato
Seven Sages of Greece describedIn Plato’s dialogues
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Protagoras (dialogue) belongsToCorpus Platonic dialogues
subject linked to: Plato's dialogue "Protagoras"
linked to: Dialogues of Plato
Great Books of the Western World hasPart Dialogues of Plato
An Apology for Poetry influencedBy Plato’s dialogues
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the One and the many isAKeyThemeIn Platonic dialogues
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Athenian Neoplatonic school taughtText dialogues of Plato
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Platonic letters relatedTo Platonic dialogues
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Adeimantus (Plato’s Republic interlocutor) appearsIn Plato’s dialogues
subject linked to: Ἀδείμαντος
linked to: Dialogues of Plato
Platonic Theology basedOn Plato's dialogues
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Stephanus numbers appliesTo Platonic dialogues
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Commentaries on Plato mainSubject Plato’s dialogues
linked to: Dialogues of Plato