Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
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Rebecca Goldstein is an American philosopher and novelist with eleven books of fiction and nonfiction.
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4 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 23 February 1950, as Rebecca Newberger (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: Barnard College (1972); PhD in philosophy, Princeton University (opens wiqqi.app)
- Novels: The Mind-Body Problem (1983); The Dark Sister (1993); Mazel (1995, National Jewish Book Award); Properties of Light (2000) (opens wiqqi.app)
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1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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7 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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We sometimes think we understand a new idea when we have mistaken it for one we already knew. (opens korrents.com)
“But this does mean we sometimes think we understand an idea when we don’t, mistaking it for an idea already in our repertoire.”
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Mattering to others is essential to living a flourishing life. (opens korrents.com)
“Mattering to others is essential to living a life of flourishing.”
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Loneliness is incompatible with a flourishing life. (opens korrents.com)
“These social relationships prevent the pain of loneliness, and loneliness is incompatible with a flourishing life.”
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We sometimes think we understand a new idea when we have mistaken it for one we already knew. (opens korrents.com)
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6 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Middlemarch (opens rcmnd.app)
“Both the first two books that I’ve chosen—Middlemarch and Moby Dick, by Herman Melville—grew out of their authors’ preoccupations with Spinoza.”
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Death in Venice (opens rcmnd.app)
“I’m really interested in novels that are deeply Platonic, and Death in Venice is deeply Platonic.”
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The Black Prince (opens rcmnd.app)
“This is really idiosyncratic: The Black Prince (1973) by Iris Murdoch.”
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Middlemarch (opens rcmnd.app)