柏拉图传世的作品共计三十五篇对话和十三封书简。古代编者忒拉绪洛斯将十三封书简作为一部作品与《法义》等对话编为一卷,这说明,柏拉图书简与柏拉图对话具有某种相似性,而十三封书简之间具有某种情节上的统一性。首先,柏拉图书简同样属于柏拉图的写作,《书简十三》和《书简六》则表明,柏拉图书简和柏拉图对话一样是“严肃”与“戏谑”的结合体,既具有哲学的严肃,又具有诗性的戏谑。其次,十三封书简具有戏剧情节的统一性,这些书简构成一个首尾相连的圆环,这个圆环的每一链条以各自不同的方式展现了哲学与政治的结合或分离,是柏拉图书简的戏剧性之所在。 Plato’s work handed down a total of thirty-five conversations and thirteen letters. The ancient editor Telazulos wrote a series of thirteen shreds of paper as a work and a dialogue of “righteousness,” which shows that there is some similarity between Platonic and Platonic dialogues, The unity of plot. First of all, Platonic also belongs to Plato’s writings. “Book of Thirteen” and “Book of Records VI” show that Plato and Plato’s dialogues are the combination of “serious” and “banter”, both of philosophy and serious , But also poetic banter. Second, the thirteen books of books have the unity of the dramatic plots, which constitute a ring of end-to-end links. Each chain of the ring presents the philosophical-political conjunction or separation in a different way. It is the dramatic Where you are