Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Philosopher and novelist, author of The Mind-Body Problem and The Mattering Instinct, who writes about mattering, philosophy and fiction in her newsletter The Mattering Map.
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We sometimes think we understand a new idea when we have mistaken it for one we already knew.
Their wordsBut this does mean we sometimes think we understand an idea when we don’t, mistaking it for an idea already in our repertoire.
↗Not All Mattering Is Mattering to Othersrebeccanewbergergoldstein.substack.com 1st of 5 in this piece
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Their wordsMattering to others is essential to living a life of flourishing.
↗Not All Mattering Is Mattering to Othersrebeccanewbergergoldstein.substack.com 2nd of 5 in this piece
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Their wordsThese social relationships prevent the pain of loneliness, and loneliness is incompatible with a flourishing life.
↗Not All Mattering Is Mattering to Othersrebeccanewbergergoldstein.substack.com 3rd of 5 in this piece
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Their wordsObviously, the deprivation of existential mattering is also incompatible with a life of flourishing.
↗Not All Mattering Is Mattering to Othersrebeccanewbergergoldstein.substack.com 4th of 5 in this piece
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Philosophy tries to understand foundational ideas that we normally use without reflecting on them.
Their wordsPhilosophy is the field that tries to understand ideas that are foundational to our thinking but that, in the normal course of our thinking, we just use rather than reflect upon.
↗Not All Mattering Is Mattering to Othersrebeccanewbergergoldstein.substack.com 5th of 5 in this piece
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Their wordsIn fact, as most physics undergraduates know, quantum and classical mechanics are successfully reconciled, the latter being the limiting case of the former.
↗"Totalitarian?" Really?rebeccanewbergergoldstein.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsI abhor the rampant politicizing of contemporary life.
↗"Totalitarian?" Really?rebeccanewbergergoldstein.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece