Platonic dialogue
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concept
A Platonic dialogue is a philosophical text, typically featuring Socrates, in which ideas are explored through question-and-answer conversations that probe definitions, assumptions, and the nature of knowledge and virtue.
Observed surface forms (6)
- Socratic dialogue ×17
- philosophical dialogue ×12
- dialogue ×2
- work by Plato ×2
- dialogue form literature ×1
- section of a philosophical dialogue ×1
Instances (36)
- Plato's Symposium via concept surface "philosophical dialogue"
- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion via concept surface "dialogue"
- Xenophon's Apology of Socrates via concept surface "Socratic dialogue"
- Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems via concept surface "dialogue"
- Republic via concept surface "philosophical dialogue"
- Apology via concept surface "Socratic dialogue"
- Laws via concept surface "philosophical dialogue"
- Statesman
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Ion
surface form: Ion (dialogue)
- Euthydemus via concept surface "Socratic dialogue"
- Republic, Book VII (Allegory of the Cave) via concept surface "section of a philosophical dialogue"
- Timaeus
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"Euthydemus" by Plato
via concept surface "Socratic dialogue"
surface form: Euthydemus
- Phaedrus via concept surface "philosophical dialogue"
- Theaetetus
- Philebus
- Gorgias via concept surface "Socratic dialogue"
- Euthyphro via concept surface "Socratic dialogue"
- Meno via concept surface "Socratic dialogue"
- Laches via concept surface "Socratic dialogue"
- Cratylus via concept surface "Socratic dialogue"
- Hippias Major
- Charmides via concept surface "Socratic dialogue"
- Κρίτων via concept surface "Socratic dialogue"
- Socratic dialogues of Plato via concept surface "dialogue form literature"
- Phädon via concept surface "philosophical dialogue"
- Supplément au voyage de Bougainville via concept surface "philosophical dialogue"
- Le Neveu de Rameau via concept surface "philosophical dialogue"
- Le Rêve de d’Alembert via concept surface "philosophical dialogue"
- Xenophon’s Symposium via concept surface "Socratic dialogue"
- Phaedo
- Συμπόσιον via concept surface "philosophical dialogue"
- Memorabilia via concept surface "Socratic dialogue"
- Oeconomicus via concept surface "Socratic dialogue"
- Apology of Socrates
- On the Soul and the Resurrection via concept surface "philosophical dialogue"