Why Did Plato Write Dialogues?

Plato worried that such people would also get it wrong on particular occasions, precisely because they lack this general and consistent knowledge. Socrates' true beliefs tempered by modesty of socratic ignorance were augmented by a divine sign which pointed him towards virtue or at least away from vice. Whereas socrates wrote nothing, plato wrote nothing in his own voice. He gave us no treatises or discourses declaiming his theories. Instead, he gave us a series of conversations. We'll start to look at those conversations in two weeks when we finally get to plato. But first, we'll have another conversation of our own with my colleague, rifle wolf, who will help us further to examine