| Description | Dialogue |
| Socrates talks to a man, a supposed religious expert, about the nature of Piety. | |
| During a drinking party, several Athenian philosophers raise a discussion about the meaning of love with each having to give a speech on love. | |
| Plato creates a new Theory of Forms following criticism made in an earlier dialogue. It acts as a sequel to Theaetetus. | |
| Through three speeches, this dialogue discusses love and the art of rhetoric. | |
| Socrates defines justice and discusses the ideal city-state, to be a ruled by a 'Philosopher-King'. It contains the allegory of the cave. | |
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| Socrates and the eponymus character discuss the meaning of virtue. Socrates also coaxes 'innate knowledge' out of a slave. | |
| On the day before his death, Socrates discusses the nature of the afterlife with his friends. He lays out four reasons why the soul is immortal. | |
| This dialogue concerns the meeting of two philosophers of the Eleatic School, one of which is Zeno. It presents arguments against the Theory of Forms. | |
| A friend of Socrates secures a ship to help him escape. However, Socrates refuses and engages this eponymous friend in a conversation concerning the nature of justice. | |
| Socrates defends himself in front of an Athenian jury from accusations leveled against him by Anytus, Meletus, and Lycon. | |
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