Set on the day of Socrates' execution, a philosophical dialogue in which Socrates argues for the immortality of the soul and calmly awaits death as the philosopher's ultimate destination.
A dialogue between Socrates and the young Phaedrus on love, beauty, the soul, and rhetoric — containing Plato's most penetrating early critique of writing as a medium that weakens memory and prevents genuine understanding.
A short dialogue in which Socrates and the ambitious young politician Meno investigate whether virtue can be taught — and whether we ever truly learn anything new, or only recollect what the soul already knows.
A confrontational dialogue in which Socrates debates three sophists on the nature of rhetoric, justice, and power — culminating in Callicles' brutal argument that conventional morality is a conspiracy of the weak against the strong.
Plato's account of Socrates' trial and defence before the Athenian jury. The founding document of the Western ideal that one must follow reason even at the cost of one's life.
Plato's foundational dialogue on justice, the ideal city-state, and the philosopher-king. The most influential work in the history of Western political philosophy.
