The Dialogues
The Republic and the works themselves, read closely.
Plato never wrote a treatise. Everything arrives as drama — Socrates and his interlocutors, arguments with speakers and stakes. The Republic is the summit, but the Symposium on love, the Phaedrus on writing itself, and the late dialogues each carry arguments found nowhere else.
These essays read the works closely, one dialogue at a time — what each argues, how the drama does philosophical work, and why the form was the point.
9 essays, listed alphabetically.
