I have read enough prereqs that I think I'm ready for platos complete work. I'd like to ask for a reading order. I dont really see recommendations for the entire work just some of the essential ones so I was thinking of reading
Euthyphro>Apology>Crito>Phaedo
and then just the rest in whatever order likely the the order they are placed in the book besides these. Does this sound good?
i would read the republic after you complete those and then read the others in whatever order, except maybe the late works i would read last
Carter Wood
Read them in the order they're in in that book
Wyatt Parker
1. The Last Days of Socrates (Euthyphro / Apology / Crito / Phaedo) 2. The Republic There you go.
Angel Rivera
There’s no strict order, but starting with Euthyphro/Apology/Crito/Phaedo is always the best intro to Plato imo. One other thing I’d also recommend reading before the Republic is the Gorgias, which is kinda like a proto-Republic.
Brandon Turner
You asked this the other day, and the intro in that book explains "the orders" very well, by pointing out that you'll never figure out exactly what order they were actually written in, so the next best thing is to just read stuff which is held traditionally important as the mood strikes you. The book presents the material in the best available "traditional" ordering of western culture, but this does have clear chronological gaps in a few places. These are secondary to the content of whatever philosophical ideas or historical items/personages are under discussion in a given piece though, which is the point.
Trial and death of Socrates first, Republic sometime shortly thereafter. Also Meno and Timaeus.
Aiden Barnes
Get off the internet and read the book.
Alexander Diaz
You're going to read like 5 dialogues max then give up.
Honestly stop fucking obsessing over how to read something, and just fucking read. It really doesn't matter. This goes for literature in general, not just Plato. This board would be far better if people just read books instead of talking about how and when to read without ever reading.
Carson Martinez
If everyone did that then no one would be on Yea Forums
Thomas James
And we would all be so much better off
Daniel Anderson
Hijacking this thread to ask, what is the best translation of the Enneads? I don't need some crazy long academic version, but I don't want babby's first Neoplatonism either. Seems like there aren't many good versions that don't cut out stuff without being like $75
Jaxon Bell
I have read them in order, but skipping the ones on metaphysics and focusing on Ethics.
Blake Myers
>reading Plato >skipping his metaphysical dialogues That's the only reason you read Plato in the first place
Do you think reddit has any kind of interest in Plato's ethics? They are much more likely to agree with you on what Plato's philosophy is good for than with me.
Blake Martinez
Well said, reddit gold for you my friend!
Jayden Sanders
Google "favorite Plato dialogue reddit". You will see that they share your tastes more than mine.
Kevin Hill
If you don't start with a Greek, you end with a Greek, twink.
>heh...I'm a 4channer, we read Theaetetus 'round these parts, not *opens wikipedia* Charmides like some numale redditor..right guys
Honestly who the fuck cares what Plato dialogues somebody prefers. Are you people really so autistic? None of you have anything interesting to say about literature, so you just swing your parroted tastes around like some large spirit-dick. Not knowing that anybody that isn't a pseud can see straight through to the flaccid little physical member hiding behind.
Noah Allen
Agreed *upvotes you*
Daniel Reyes
This is supposedly the Neo-Platonic reading order, per Iamblichus and his ilk. Seems like a very good rhythm of progression.