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发表于2024-12-23
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Is philosophy obsolete? Are the ancient questions still relevant in the age of cosmology and neuroscience, not to mention crowd-sourcing and cable news? The acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein provides a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden role in today’s debates on religion, morality, politics, and science.
At the origin of Western philosophy stands Plato, who got about as much wrong as one would expect from a thinker who lived 2,400 years ago. But Plato’s role in shaping philosophy was pivotal. On her way to considering the place of philosophy in our ongoing intellectual life, Goldstein tells a new story of its origin, re-envisioning the extraordinary culture that produced the man who produced philosophy.
But it is primarily the fate of philosophy that concerns her. Is the discipline no more than a way of biding our time until the scientists arrive on the scene? Have they already arrived? Does philosophy itself ever make progress? And if it does, why is so ancient a figure as Plato of any continuing relevance? Plato at the Googleplex is Goldstein’s startling investigation of these conundra. She interweaves her narrative with Plato’s own choice for bringing ideas to life—the dialogue.
Imagine that Plato came to life in the twenty-first century and embarked on a multicity speaking tour. How would he handle the host of a cable news program who denies there can be morality without religion? How would he mediate a debate between a Freudian psychoanalyst and a tiger mom on how to raise the perfect child? How would he answer a neuroscientist who, about to scan Plato’s brain, argues that science has definitively answered the questions of free will and moral agency? What would Plato make of Google, and of the idea that knowledge can be crowd-sourced rather than reasoned out by experts? With a philosopher’s depth 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.
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein grew up in White Plains, New York, and graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College, receiving the Montague Prize for Excellence in Philosophy, and immediately went on to graduate work at Princeton University, receiving her Ph.D. in philosophy. While in graduate school she was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship and a Whiting Foundation Fellowship.
After earning her Ph.D. she returned to her alma mater, where she taught courses in philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, the rationalists, the empiricists, and the ancient Greeks. It was some time during her tenure at Barnard that, quite to her own surprise, she used a summer vacation to write her first novel, The Mind-Body Problem. As she described it,
"To me the process is still mysterious. I had just come through a very emotional time, having not only become a mother but having also lost my father, whom I adored. In the course of grieving for my father and glorying in my daughter, I found that the very formal, very precise questions I had been trained to analyze weren’t gripping me the way they once had. Suddenly, I was asking the most `unprofessional’ sorts of questions (I would have snickered at them as a graduate student), such as how does all this philosophy I’ve studied help me to deal with the brute contingencies of life? How does it relate to life as it’s really lived? I wanted to confront such questions in my writing, and I wanted to confront them in a way that would insert `real life’ intimately into the intellectual struggle. In short I wanted to write a philosophically motivated novel."
The Mind-Body Problem was published by Random House and went on to become a critical and popular success.
More novels followed: The Late-Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind; The Dark Sister, which received the Whiting Writer’s Award, Mazel, which received the 1995 National Jewish Book Award and the 1995 Edward Lewis Wallant Award; and Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics. Her book of short stories, Strange Attractors, received a National Jewish Book Honor Award. Her 2005 book Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel, was featured in articles in The New Yorker and The New York Times, received numerous favorable reviews, and was named one of the best books of the year by Discover magazine, the Chicago Tribune, and the New York Sun. Goldstein’s most recent published book is, Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew who Gave Us Modernity, published in May 2006, and winner of the 2006 Koret International Jewish Book Award in Jewish Thought. Her new novel, Thirty-Six Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction, will be published by Pantheon Books.
In 1996 Goldstein became a MacArthur Fellow, receiving the prize which is popularly known as the “Genius Award.” In awarding her the prize, the MacArthur Foundation described her work in the following words:
"Rebecca Goldstein is a writer whose novels and short stories dramatize the concerns of philosophy without sacrificing the demands of imaginative storytelling. Her books tell a compelling story as they describe with wit, compassion and originality the interaction of mind and heart. In her fiction her characters confront problems of faith: religious faith and faith in an ability to comprehend the mysteries of the physical world as complementary to moral and emotional states of being. Goldstein’s writings emerge as brilliant arguments for the belief that fiction in our time may be the best vehicle for involving readers in questions of morality and existence."
Goldstein is married to linguist and author Steven Pinker. She lives in Boston and in Truro, Massachusetts.
Didn’t finish the book
评分啰哩啰嗦不知道讲些什么东西,看了两章直接给退了
评分本书立意为柏拉图在现代社会参与讨论当今社会政治道德问题,以此阐述为什么哲学依然有用。讨论模仿柏拉图著作,采用对话形式,每节讨论前是大段论述性文字。讨论写得较通俗,特别是柏拉图在Google那章,相当有趣;但论述性文字太深,不适合哲学外行人。作者是Steven Pinker之妻,两人写作都有过度论述和拓展的倾向,这种写作方式加大了书的难度。因此本书更适合有哲学素养的人深度阅读。作为一般兴趣者,我读了60%,放弃;3分的打分反映的更多是个人兴趣。
评分想给她加7星,一星给柏圣,一星给作者。适应了她那略微奇怪的语言风格以后,整本书还是蛮好读的,间隔的梳理了柏圣的各个主题的著作要点,穿插柏圣和现代的对话。苏哥之死那里很有意思啊,以前没有意识到他所处的政治环境究竟是咋样,现在看有点看像是被占领的解放区回归以后苏哥要求解放者们免费供养他……苏哥真是真·行为艺术家!
评分啰哩啰嗦不知道讲些什么东西,看了两章直接给退了
This is a book that I have made many notes. The author has employed a imaginative way to bring Plato and even Socrates to life. Never have I come so close to them and understood their ideas. It is also amazing how much we have achieved in these thousands ye...
评分This is a book that I have made many notes. The author has employed a imaginative way to bring Plato and even Socrates to life. Never have I come so close to them and understood their ideas. It is also amazing how much we have achieved in these thousands ye...
评分This is a book that I have made many notes. The author has employed a imaginative way to bring Plato and even Socrates to life. Never have I come so close to them and understood their ideas. It is also amazing how much we have achieved in these thousands ye...
评分This is a book that I have made many notes. The author has employed a imaginative way to bring Plato and even Socrates to life. Never have I come so close to them and understood their ideas. It is also amazing how much we have achieved in these thousands ye...
评分This is a book that I have made many notes. The author has employed a imaginative way to bring Plato and even Socrates to life. Never have I come so close to them and understood their ideas. It is also amazing how much we have achieved in these thousands ye...
Plato at the Googleplex pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024