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Copyright © 2014 by Rebecca Goldstein
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataGoldstein, Rebecca, [date]Plato at the Googleplex : why philosophy won’t go away / Rebecca Goldstein.pages cmIncludes bibliographical references.HC ISBN 978-0-307-37819-4 EBK ISBN 978-0-307-90887-21. Plato—Influence. 2. Philosophy—History—21st century.3. Imaginary conversations. I. Title.B395.G4435 2014 184—dc23 2013029660
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FOR HARRY AND ROZ PINKER
CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Prologue
α  Man Walks into a Seminar Room
β  Plato at the Googleplex
γ  In the Shadow of the Acropolis
δ  Plato at the 92nd Street Y
ε  I Don’t Know How to Love Him
ς  xxxPlato
ζ  Socrates Must Die
η  Plato on Cable News
θ  Let the Sunshine In
ι  Plato in the Magnet
Appendix A: Socratic Sources
Appendix B: The Two Speeches of Pericles from Thucydides’ The History of the Peloponnesian War
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Bibliographical Note
Index
About the Author
Other Books by This Author
PROLOGUE
A book devoted to a particular thinker often presumes that thinker got everything right. I don’t think this is true of Plato. Plato got about as much wrong as we would expect from a philosopher who lived 2,400 years ago. Were this not the case, then philosophy, advancing our knowledge not at all, would be useless. I don’t think it’s useless, so I’m quite happy to acknowledge how mistaken or confused Plato can often strike us.
Plato is surprisingly relevant to many of our contemporary discussions, but this isn’t because he knew as much as we do. Obviously, he didn’t know the science that we know. But, less obviously, he didn’t know the philosophy that we know, including philosophy that has filtered outward beyond the seminar table. Conclusions that philosophers first establish by way of tortuous reasoning have a way, over time, of leaking into shared knowledge. Such leakage is perhaps more common as regards the questions of morality than other branches of philosophy, since those are questions that constantly test us. We can hardly ............

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