What should I read next?

[Anonymous No.16491758]

So i read Apology, Crito, Euthyphoro, Phaedo, Symposium. Whats next? I know there is lot more to Plato but what? Should i start with the Republic?

[Anonymous No.16491777]

You forgot meno, crito.
And read the republic after them

[Anonymous No.16491795]

>>16491758
I think if you grasp his metaphysics well enough you can go into Republic. As long as you're not reading it literally or as a series of conclusions, and just as applications of his metaphysics. If not read Gorgias and really engage with it. And don't get turned off by the monologues. He's more mature and confident in himself so it's a bit less socratic method type of rhetoric but he's still into that deeply, just he applies it in government, ethics etc. Protagoras is very even-handed if you're looking for that style. Get what you can out of him before moving onto aristotle. Don't forget to come back after Analytic philosophy or whenever.

[Anonymous No.16491824]

>>16491777
I read Crito. Read my post again.
>>16491795
Okay I'll check them out.

[Anonymous No.16491858]

>>16491824
My bad. Check meno as well tho.

[Anonymous No.16491974]

Charmides
Letter 1
Hippias
Letter 4
Minos
Laws book 1
Alcibiades I.
Laws book 2
Euthydemus.
Laws book 2.
Protagoras.
Laws book 3.
Gorgias.
Laws 4.
Phaedrus.
Laws 5.
Lysis.
Laws 6.
Republic.
Laws 7.
Symposium.
Laws 8.
Cratylus.
Laws 9
Meno
Letter 7
Theaetetus-Sophist-Statesman.
Laws X
Parmenides
Laws 11
Philebus
Laws 12
Timaeus-Critias
Epinomis
Halcyon

[Anonymous No.16491978]

>>16491858
I sure will.
Probably the most beautiful dialouges I read were Apology and Crito. Socrates's amazing virtues of character, his determination and righteousness.

[Anonymous No.16491985]

>>16491974
Letter 2 after Halcyon.

[Anonymous No.16491994]

>>16491978
What a surprise, i just finished Apology.
There are tears in my eyes, such a good dialogue...
>The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

[Anonymous No.16492071]

fuck I have to reread the Trial and death after I'm done with the late dialogues. I rushed through it because I wanted to get to the Republic and didn't pay much attention.

[Anonymous No.16492309]

>>16491985
All the letters are apocrypha.

[Anonymous No.16492529]

>>16491795
so aristotle after plato? how do i know if i'm ready for aristotle?

[Anonymous No.16492549]

>>16492529
Just move on when you're ready, there's always more to learn but as long as you get where his conclusions come from in overview then you can see how Aristotle's is then do the presocratics then a history of philosophy and choose what interests you next.
If you get into logic going back over some platonic dialogues and Megarian school and Aristotle and stoics is good to get modern logic later but they're always good to come back to. I find moving between philosophers makes the prior ones stand out more to see where they're coming from.

[Anonymous No.16492559]

>>16492529
Also if stoicism and epicureanism interests you, that's another big metaphysical clash if you want to stay in Greeks. The stoics had some farther conclusions like their logic which descended from megarian school which was a follower of socrates.

[Anonymous No.16492587]

>>16492549
>>16492559
i was just about to say that i'm really interested in stoicism and want to learn more from it since i only read 2 books (meditations and enchiridion). i'm thinking now to finish as much platonic dialogues and then going back to the stoics. maybe diagnose after them? will see but thank you for you posts anon i appreciate the help.

[Anonymous No.16492603]

>>16492587
Yeah as long as you've read Gorgias and theatetus and republic you should be good but there's gold in all them. Protagoras is a good look at socratic method vs aristotelian rhetoric.

[Anonymous No.16492606]

>>16491758
Ahh, plato's dialogues, or as I like to call them, Socrates harangues a poor sexy boy he's taken to grooming for the next 5 hours.

Also, read Thaetetus

[Anonymous No.16492615]

>>16492603
i finished euthyphro, meno, krito, apology and will start phaedo today.
i will read the 3 you mentioned anon thanks for that, but do you recommend any order which i should read those 3?

[Anonymous No.16492645]

>>16492309
>All the letters are apocrypha.
>oh no X dialogue/letter disagrees with our biased enlightenment revisionism
>uuuhh, they're spurious, of course!

[Anonymous No.16493146]

>>16492606
Yeah like what the fuck is up with that?? After I read symposium I felt sick that Socrates was a faggot and a pedo.