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All of philosophy is just a footnote to Plato.

That's a famous quote, but also a rather depressing one,

because it suggests that philosophy hasn't made much progress since the fourth century BC.

Here's Rebecca Goldstein to cheer philosophers

philosophers up. Rebecca Newberger Goldstein.

Welcome to Philosophy Bites.

It's a pleasure to be here.

The topic we're going to focus on is progress in philosophy.

Now it seems to many people there isn't any progress in philosophy

because we're still discussing the same sort of problems that Plato was discussing

in 5th century Athens.

Well, in a sense we are.

Some of the questions that he was discussing have developed.

I would say that Plato is terrifically significant because he raises almost all of the paradigmatic

philosophical questions raises up in the process all the different sub-genres of philosophy, philosophy

of language, philosophy of mathematics, in some sense even

philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, epistemology, metaphysics, political theory,

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