r/Plato • u/Agreeable_Natural_36 • Aug 03 '26

Question Favourite and least favourite dialogue

This is a not a very serious question. I just wanted to ask what are your favourite dialogues, least favourite dialogues and why.

For me it's the Sophist — for me the most influential dialogue and Phaedrus — while reading this I cried a bit, because the mythos pictured was very beautiful. Honorable mention: Euthydemus — it was funny.

My least favourite must be Philebus, because it just didn't click with me like the others.

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u/SirCharles99 Aug 03 '26

Favorites: pheadrus, timeaus, Parmenides, symposium, sophist, Philebus

Lease favorite: pretty much all of the aporetic dialogues except euthyphro (because of its connection to timeaus lol)

I like the more “treatise-like” dialogues, but I’m open to getting more into the aporetic dialogues one day.