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

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In the Goodreads info page about the book, it states '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.' I am not able to get this. How Plato got it all wrong?

MJD Goldstein points out that Plato, while a deep thinker who posed questions that are still relevant today, was a product of his time who seems to have u…moreGoldstein points out that Plato, while a deep thinker who posed questions that are still relevant today, was a product of his time who seems to have uncritically acquiesced to certain ideas that in hindsight he seems to have been mistaken about. For instance, Goldstein floats the idea that Plato may not have seen a big problem with slavery given the time that he lived in. This goes along with her idea, which she argues for in this book, that philosophy progresses with time.(less)

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I've never been much of a philosophy student, but the title intrigued me. The Intro (which is all I've read so far, was an education in itself). The concept (Plato joins modern-day dialogues (e.g at Google HQ, the Googleplex), and is able to fully participate, as they are discussing the same issues he wrote about 2,500 years ago is also intriguing. So we'll see how far I get. Any other readers out there with tips?

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