# Socratic and Platonic thought

- Id: `platonism`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/socratic-and-platonic-thought/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `reviewed`
- Content checksum: `d84c42ce8b4cbc13861d589c1b0022aa2d137c9ea1d854b9843708ec86844b0c`

## Summary

A dialogical tradition testing definition, justice, knowledge, and the care of the soul.

## Overview

Socrates left no writings. His practice of questioning reaches us mainly through Plato, whose dialogues turn philosophical inquiry into a living scene. An answer is proposed, tested, corrected, and sometimes left unresolved.

Platonism is therefore neither one fixed doctrine nor merely a theory of Forms. It investigates the difference between opinion and knowledge, the conditions of a just city, desire, education, and the soul’s relation to reality. Its heirs produced readings that can conflict, and the corpus should keep those differences visible.

## Statistics

```json
{
    "thinkers": 3,
    "works": 70,
    "passages": 4262,
    "concepts": 149
}
```

## Thinkers

```json
[
    {
        "id": "socrates",
        "name": "Socrates",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/socrates/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato",
        "name": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/plato/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch",
        "name": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/plutarch/"
    }
]
```

## Works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "plato.alcibiades_1",
        "title": "First Alcibiades",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/alcibiades-1/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.alcibiades_2",
        "title": "Second Alcibiades, a Pseudo-Platonic Dialogue",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/alcibiades-2/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.apology",
        "title": "Apology of Socrates",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/apology/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.charmides",
        "title": "Charmides",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/charmides/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.cleitophon",
        "title": "Clitophon",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/cleitophon/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.cratylus",
        "title": "Cratylus",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/cratylus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.critias",
        "title": "Critias",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/critias/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.crito",
        "title": "Crito",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/crito/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.epinomis",
        "title": "Epinomis, an Ancient Appendix to the Laws",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/epinomis/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.epistles",
        "title": "Letters Attributed to Plato",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/epistles/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.euthydemus",
        "title": "Euthydemus",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/euthydemus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.euthyphro",
        "title": "Euthyphro",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/euthyphro/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.gorgias",
        "title": "Gorgias",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/gorgias/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.hipparchus",
        "title": "Hipparchus, a Pseudo-Platonic Dialogue",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/hipparchus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.hippias_major",
        "title": "Hippias Major",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/hippias-major/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.hippias_minor",
        "title": "Hippias Minor",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/hippias-minor/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.ion",
        "title": "Ion",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/ion/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.laches",
        "title": "Laches",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/laches/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.laws",
        "title": "Laws",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/laws/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.lovers",
        "title": "Rival Lovers, a Pseudo-Platonic Dialogue",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/lovers/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.lysis",
        "title": "Lysis",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/lysis/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.menexenus",
        "title": "Menexenus",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/menexenus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.meno",
        "title": "Meno",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/meno/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.minos",
        "title": "Minos, a Pseudo-Platonic Dialogue",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/minos/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.parmenides",
        "title": "Parmenides",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/parmenides/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.phaedo",
        "title": "Phaedo",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/phaedo/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.phaedrus",
        "title": "Phaedrus",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/phaedrus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.philebus",
        "title": "Philebus",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/philebus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.protagoras",
        "title": "Protagoras",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/protagoras/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.republic",
        "title": "Republic",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/republic/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.sophist",
        "title": "Sophist",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/sophist/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.statesman",
        "title": "Statesman",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/statesman/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.symposium",
        "title": "Symposium",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/symposium/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.theaetetus",
        "title": "Theaetetus",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/theaetetus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.theages",
        "title": "Theages, a Dialogue of Disputed Attribution",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/theages/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.timaeus",
        "title": "Timaeus",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/timaeus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.alexander",
        "title": "Alexander",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/alexander/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.caesar",
        "title": "Caesar",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/caesar/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.cato_younger",
        "title": "Cato the Younger",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/cato-younger/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.progress_in_virtue",
        "title": "How One May Know One’s Progress in Virtue",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/progress-in-virtue/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.how_young_man_should_study_poetry",
        "title": "How a Young Man Should Study Poetry",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/how-young-man-should-study-poetry/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.profit_from_enemies",
        "title": "How to Profit by One’s Enemies",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/profit-from-enemies/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.common_conceptions_against_stoics",
        "title": "On Common Conceptions against the Stoics",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/common-conceptions-against-stoics/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.on_curiosity",
        "title": "On Curiosity",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/on-curiosity/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.moral_virtue",
        "title": "On Moral Virtue",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/moral-virtue/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.stoic_self_contradictions",
        "title": "On Stoic Self-Contradictions",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/stoic-self-contradictions/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.tranquillity_of_mind",
        "title": "On Tranquillity of Mind, Plutarch",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/tranquillity-of-mind/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.control_of_anger",
        "title": "On the Control of Anger",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/control-of-anger/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.e_at_delphi",
        "title": "On the E at Delphi",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/e-at-delphi/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.face_in_moon",
        "title": "On the Face in the Moon",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/face-in-moon/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.table_talk",
        "title": "Table Talk",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/table-talk/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.stoics_more_absurd_than_poets",
        "title": "The Stoics Speak More Absurdly than the Poets",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/stoics-more-absurd-than-poets/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.aristophanes_clouds",
        "title": "Socrates in Aristophanes’ Clouds",
        "author": "Aristophanes",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/aristophanes/aristophanes-clouds/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_apology",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Apology",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-apology/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_charmides",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Charmides",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-charmides/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_crito",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Crito",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-crito/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_euthyphro",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Euthyphro",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-euthyphro/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_gorgias",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Gorgias",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-gorgias/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_laches",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Laches",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-laches/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_meno",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Meno",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-meno/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_phaedo",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Phaedo",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-phaedo/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_phaedrus",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Phaedrus",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-phaedrus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_protagoras",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Protagoras",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-protagoras/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_republic",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Republic",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-republic/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_symposium",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Symposium",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-symposium/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_theaetetus",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Theaetetus",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-theaetetus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.xenophon_apology",
        "title": "Socrates in Xenophon’s Apology",
        "author": "Xenophon",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/xenophon/xenophon-apology/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.xenophon_memorabilia",
        "title": "Socrates in Xenophon’s Memorabilia",
        "author": "Xenophon",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/xenophon/xenophon-memorabilia/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.xenophon_oeconomicus",
        "title": "Socrates in Xenophon’s Oeconomicus",
        "author": "Xenophon",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/xenophon/xenophon-oeconomicus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.xenophon_symposium",
        "title": "Socrates in Xenophon’s Symposium",
        "author": "Xenophon",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/xenophon/xenophon-symposium/"
    }
]
```