Another in a line of Platonic dialogues that was likely not written by Plato. From a philosophical perspective, I suppose you could call Theages ethics, but it's really not philosophical at all, unless you count the astonishing revelation that if you want a particular type of wisdom, you should go learn from someone who has that wisdom. Here's the gist: Socrates tries to help out a friend by figuring out what kind of wisdom the man's son, Theages, is looking for. When he finds out he wants to govern people, Socrates briefly teases him about wanting to be a tyrant before telling him to go learn from wise politicians. Theages protests, wanting to learn from Socrates instead, he says he can't teach anyone anything, unless it's love. He is, he says, the best at that (non-Platonic Socrates is quite the braggart). He also mentions "the god," that weird divine voice of premonition or omen that he sometimes gets, and warns Theages that, unless the god wills it, Theages will learn nothing from him. Unsurprisingly, Theages convinces to tutor him, anyway. In the end, there's not much to recommend this one, either philosophically or dramatically.