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The Platonist Path
Climb from the cave through justice and the soul to the Republic itself, then follow beauty upward in the Symposium and face death with Socrates in the Phaedo.
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The Allegory of the Cave
Plato
The most famous image in philosophy.
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Concept · 4 min
The Ring of Gyges
Plato
Why be just if you could get away with anything?
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Concept · 5 min
The Tripartite Soul
Plato
Reason, spirit, appetite — the city in the soul.
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Concept · 6 min
Philosopher Kings
Plato
Plato’s scandalous answer to politics.
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Full text · 10 chapters
The Republic
Plato
The book the rest of philosophy is footnotes to.
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Concept · 6 min
The Ladder of Beauty
Plato
From one beautiful body to Beauty itself.
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Full text · 7 chapters
Symposium
Plato
Philosophy at a dinner party.
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Full text · 3 chapters
Phaedo
Plato
Socrates’ last hours — the soul’s case for immortality.
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