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100			_aGoldstein, Rebecca
245			_aPlato at the Googleplex : why philosophy won't go away
260			_bVintage books, _c2014 _aNew York :
300			_a459 p. ; _bill., _c20 cm
365			_b699.00 _cINR _d01
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aFrom the acclaimed writer and thinker--whose award-winning books include both fiction and non-fiction--a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden but essential role in today's debates on love, religion, politics, and science. Imagine that Plato came to life in the 21st century and set out on a multi-city speaking tour: How would he handle a host on Fox News who challenges him on religion and morality? How would he mediate a debate on the best way to raise a child between a Freudian psychoanalyst and a Tiger Mom? How would he answer a neuroscientist who, about to scan Plato's brain, argues that all his philosophical problems can be solved by our new technologies? What would he make of Google, and the idea that knowledge can be crowdsourced rather than reasoned out by experts? With a philosopher's depth and a novelist's imagination, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein probes the deepest issues confronting us--from sexuality and child-rearing to morality and the meaning of life--by allowing us to eavesdrop on Plato as he encounters the modern world. By reviving the Platonic art of the dialogue for the 21st century, she demonstrates that the questions he first posed continue to confound and enlarge us.
650			_aPlato
650			_aPlato Influence
650			_aMoral Philosophy
650			_aEthics
650			_aImaginary conversations
650			_aSocrates
650			_aAcropolis
700			_aPhilosphy
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