The texts of Plato create a web of motifs, positions, and problems, but they also inherit a web of motifs, positions, and problems from the entire preceding philosophical tradition, which they either reproduce almost verbatim, modify, or, most often, reject.

There are, we might say, certain Platonic "obsessions" that intertwine, coalesce, and often complicate in an attempt to record the philosophical prerequisites that ultimately aim to create a cohesive semantic whole.

From this dense weaving, in the present work, we select and retrieve certain themes that we believe are central to the overall understanding of Plato's work. The guiding thread used is provided by Plato himself, as it is shaped in his later dialogues, the last of which he did not even manage to write: the sophist (Sophist), the statesman (Statesman), the philosopher.

Platonic philosophy is treated as a whole, as a web with many interwoven threads. Plato, like a spider, has spun his web and has ensnared us in his tyrannical charm. In the tyrannical charm of his own philosophy, as well as philosophy in general.