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Rebecca Goldstein, born on February 23, 1950, is an American novelist known for her profound psychological insights and philosophical explorations. Her works, such as 'The Mind-Body Problem' and 'Natural History', are celebrated for their blend of literature and philosophy.

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“So Socrates was a kind of gadfly. He was a sort of philosophical urban gorilla hanging around in the middle of Athens, asking these peculiar questions of everybody - important people, young men, slaves - questions that had to do with ultimately what's the life that's worth living. And Plato was one of the young men who hung around him, a very aristocratic young man, came from a very old, important family.”

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“Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well.”

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“Plato conceived of philosophy as necessarily gregarious rather than solitary. The exposure of presumptions is best done in company, the more argumentative the better.”

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Book:Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

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“And what is it, according to Plato, that philosophy is supposed to do? Nothing less than to render violence to our sense of ourselves and our world, our sense of ourselves in the world.”

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“Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better."”

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“Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.”

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Book:Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

Source: Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

“Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.”

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Author:Rebecca Goldstein

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Born: February 23, 1950
Known for: Novelist
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