The Republic
380 BC · 528 pages
Asked why anyone should be just when nobody is watching, Socrates answers by building an entire city in conversation. The allegory of the cave has never stopped explaining people to themselves.
★ 8.8
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Gorgias
380 BC · 113 pages
Callicles tells Socrates that morality is a con the weak run on the strong, who should take whatever they want. Socrates answers that doing wrong harms you more than suffering it ever could.
★ 7.6
The Symposium
380 BC · 192 pages
Athenians take turns praising love at a drinking party. The comic poet Aristophanes says we were once double creatures split in two, still hunting our other half, and romance repeats him still.
★ 6.7