SOCRATIC METHOD

Socrates did not write anything. It was Plato who wrote dialogues which has Socrates as a character. Scholars point out that Plato's dialogues can be divided in i) Early dialogues ii) Middle dialogues iii) Later dialogues

It is through the early dialogues of Plato, we get to know Socrates

Early dialogues: Apology, Charmides, Crito, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Hippias Minor, Ion, Laches, Protagoras and Republic I) and 'transitional' Euthydemus, Hippias Major, Lysis, Menexenus and Meno