# Searching for Plato With My 7-Year-Old

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## Metadata
- Author: [[Thomas Chatterton Williams]]
- Full Title: Searching for Plato With My 7-Year-Old
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/magazine/searching-for-plato-with-my-7-year-old.html

## Highlights
- An overwhelming proportion of the world we take for granted today was birthed in these cramped spaces. Josh and I sat among the pillars and rubble, and I labored to envision Socrates darting through the hurried masses, pestering everyone with questions so insightful and inconvenient that he would eventually have to be killed for their perspicacity. When I looked up, it hit me that he was tried and convicted on the hill directly above us.