About the sequence of creation of Plato's works as his progressive ascent to the apex of transcendental thought

Introduction. The purpose of the article is to study the actual problem of the creative heritage of Plato’s historical interrelation of his works as they are created. Unfortunately, this work of paramount importance in the study of Platonism is still largely not completed. Materials and methods. The author used the methods of historical and logical, empirical and theoretical, as well as thematic and existential analysis. The method of considering the material developed by Karl Marx in the dialectical interrelation of the historical and logical aspects of its construction essentially helps in the affairs of historical reconstruction. Discussion. The peculiarity of the epistemological situation in which Plato remained was expressed in the fact that he was forced to proceed practically from a pure empirical language of observation. Therefore, in his philosophical studies, he had to display remarkable constructive abilities to create complex abstract-theoretical constructs from a poor arsenal of verbal means of the emerging secular ancient Greek language. In the history of world philosophy, I do not know a deeper and more productive philosopher in this regard. In working with Plato’s texts these points should be monitored. With the help of a thematic approach, an opportunity has been opened to study the formation and development of the main themes and concepts of Plato’s philosophy, developed in his dialogues, and build them in the appropriate sequence of their creation. Since the works of the great Athenian sage are to a considerable extent confessional in nature, the analysis of the existential component presented in them greatly helped to solve the research task. The Results of the Study. Using the above methods allowed us to build a fairly reasonable and productive version of the historical sequence of the creation of works of Plato.