Plato: Late Works

Many of the late dialogues are devoted to technical philosophic issues. The most important of these are the Theaetetus; the Parmenides, which deals with the relation between the one and the many; and the Sophist, which discusses the nature of nonbeing. Plato's longest work, the Laws, written during his middle and late periods, discusses in practical terms the nature of the state.

Sections in this article:

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

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