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Best books to learn Understanding Plato, in order

Plato is best approached with a guide before the dialogues themselves, since the form is dramatic and the arguments unfold indirectly. Start with an overview of his life and thought, read the major dialogues like the Republic with commentary alongside, then engage the scholarship on the theory of forms, his ethics, and his enormous influence on everything that followed.

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