What would the ancient Greek philosopher make of the
twenty-first-century Google headquarters? A dazzling exploration of
the role of ancient philosophy in modern life from the acclaimed
writer and thinker. Imagine that Plato came to life in the
twenty-first century and embarked on a multi-city speaking tour.
How would he mediate a debate between a Freudian psychoanalyst and
a 'tiger mum' on how to raise the perfect child? How would he
handle the host of a right-wing news program who denies there can
be morality without religion? What would Plato make of Google, and
of the idea that knowledge can be crowdsourced rather than reasoned
out by experts? Plato at the Googleplex is acclaimed thinker
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein's dazzling investigation of these
conundra. With a philosopher's depth and erudition and a novelist's
imagination and wit, Goldstein probes the deepest issues
confronting us by allowing us to eavesdrop on Plato as he takes on
the modern world; it is a stunningly original plunge into the drama
of philosophy, revealing its hidden role in today's debates on
religion, morality, politics and science.
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