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Colin McGinn reviews "Plato at the Googleplex: Why PHilosophy Won't Go Away," by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein.

Plato was born between 429 B.C. and 423 B.C. The Parthenon stood over the city, but Athens’s golden age was over. As much as a third of Athens’s population died in the plague of 430-426.

Plato mourned the invention of the alphabet, worried that the use of text would threaten traditional memory-based arts of rhetoric. In his “Dialogues,” arguing through the voice of Thamus, the ...