Plato: Works and Philosophy

Plato was a superb writer, and his works are part of the world's great literature. His extant work is in the form of dialogues and epistles. Some of the dialogues and many of the epistles attributed to him are known to be spurious, while others are doubtful. In the various dialogues he touched upon almost every problem that has occupied subsequent philosophers. The dialogues are divided into three groups according to the probable order of composition.

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Late Works
• Philosophical Themes and Mature Works
• Early Works
• Works and Philosophy
• Life
• Bibliography

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