I was trained as a philosopher never to put philosophers and their ideas into historical contexts, since historical context has nothing to do with the validity of the philosopher's positions. I agree that assessing validity and contextualizing historically are two… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Youth is not an essential, but rather an accidental property. Nobody is in essence young. One either ceases to be or ceases to be… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share
Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share
When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this particular approach… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share
“one evangelical scientist who had felt his doubts falling away from him when he was hiking in the mountains and came upon a frozen… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share
Because of the failure of religion to offer satisfying answers to an increasing number of people, it's time for philosophy to address forcefully these… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share
If we look at our attitudes consistently and work out the logical implications we're on the road to moral progress, moral understanding. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share
We may not need God to tell us where the world came from, but we need God to be able to live moral lives… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share
In order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share
Philosophical progress changes what we take to be "intuitively" obvious, and this change covers up the tracks of the laborious arguments that preceded the… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share
What one tries to force into a child against its own nature will never come to good. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share
What is remarkable about the Greeks - even pre-philosophically - is that despite the salience of religious rituals in their lives, when it came… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share
In fact, it’s the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share
