The dialogues below are ordered thematically. Starred dialogues “*” are of disputed authenticity
| First Tetralogy | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Euthyphro |  | What is piety (holiness)? | |||
| Apology | | Socrates trial defense speech | |||
| Crito | | Should one disobey unjust laws? | |||
| Phaedo | | Is the soul immortal? | |||
| Second Tetralogy | |||||
| Cratylus | | Are proper names conventional? | |||
| Theaetetus | | What is knowledge? | |||
| Sophist | | What is a sophist? | |||
| Statesman | | What is a statesman? | |||
| Third Tetralogy | |||||
| Parmenides | | What is a Platonic Form? | |||
| Philebus | | What is pleasure? | |||
| Symposium | | What is love? What is poetry? | |||
| Phaedrus | | What is rhetoric? What is love? | |||
| Forth Tetralogy | |||||
| Alcibiades I* | | Socrates and Alcibiades | |||
| Alcibiades II* | Ignorance, Ambition and Power | ||||
| Hipparchus* | What is the desire (love) of gain (philokerdēs)? | ||||
| Lovers* | |||||
| Fifth Tetralogy | |||||
| Theages* | |||||
| Charmides | | What is temperance (self-control)? | |||
| Laches | | What is courage? | |||
| Lysis | | What is friendship (philia)? | |||
| Sixth Tetralogy | |||||
| Euthydemus | | Logic and Informal Argumentation | |||
| Protagoras | | What is rhetoric? What is virtue? Can virtue be taught? | |||
| Gorgias | | What is rhetoric? What is virtue? Can virtue be taught? | |||
| Meno | | What is virtue? Meno's Paradox. Can virtue be taught? | |||
| Seventh Tetralogy | |||||
| Hippias Major* | What is it for a thing to be fine? | ||||
| Hippias Minor | | Is it better to lie involuntarily or voluntarily? | |||
| Ion | | What is the origin of art and poetry? | |||
| Menexenus | | A funeral oration | |||
| Eighth Tetralogy | |||||
| Cleitophon | Is Socratic elenchus mere exhortation? | ||||
| Republic | | What is a just state or society? What are the aims of education? | |||
| Timaeus | | Universe order and origin | |||
| Critias | | The Myth of Atlantis | |||
| Ninth Tetralogy | |||||
| Minos* | What is a just law? | ||||
| Laws | | What laws should a just society have? | |||
| Epinomis* | | What is wisdom? | |||
| 7th Letter* | Biographical; 7th letter: the limits of philosophical writing | ||||
| Apocrypha | |||||
| Eryxias* | | Is wealth necessary for virtue and happiness? | |||
| Definitions* | | ||||
| Epigrams* | | ||||