speaking of favorite Platonic dialogues

Mine’s the Meno, and no changing it.

Sorry to sound so Philosophy 101 with my choice, but most of what you need to know about Plato is nicely compressed in it, and it’s also pretty funny. (Though other dialogues are even funnier, especially some of the minor ones.)

In fact, “favorite Platonic dialogue” is probably the philosophical equivalent of zodiac signs.

You have the Timaeus people, who are generally either hipster vitalists or colorful antiquarians.

You have plenty of Republic people, and they could be of all different types because there’s so much in it.

You have the Sophist people, who tend to be grave ontologists with beards.

What other types are there?

Symposium people. Right. It may even be my second favorite. I’m a Meno with Symposium rising.