Sophie's World presents the history of philosophy in the form of a novel. A young girl learns about life and philosophy. One day a few weeks before her fifteenth birthday Norwegian schoolgirl Sophie Amundsen looks inside her mailbox and finds a mysterious letter addressed to her. Opening it, she discovers a single piece of paper with two questions written on it: Who are you? And where does the world come from? Sophie is surprised and intrigued and begins to ponder these questions, first with frustration at their apparent childishness and then with a growing interest. Soon the first letter is followed by more communication from this mysterious correspondent, this time in the form of a whole chapter from a book on introductory philosophy. Strangest of all, the book seems to be written specifically to her. .
Soon Sophie finds herself taking a complete course in philosophy from an anonymous philosopher. Then, Sophie and the philosopher finally meet and he reveals his Secret Purpose to her. Suddenly, Sophie's whole world is turned upside-down and the fun really begins. .
The teenage girl, Sophie leans so much from the philosophy that is given about each philosopher from long ago with each of the lessons that she is given from her teacher/philosopher, Alberto. Sophie learns about medieval philosophy while being lectured by a monk in an ancient church, and she learns about Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in a French cafe. It all begins with a quotation from Goethe: "He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth." Could the world have come from nothing? It all seemed so illogical until Democritus invented the most ingenious toy in the world. Next we see Socrates standing in front of a market stall packed with various goods. "What a wonderful number of things I have no use for." We learn about Plato and his theories about the existence of an ideal world of which we see only the dim reflection.
Persian carpets have been celebrated in Persia and around the world for thousands of years, and for good reason. ... As stated by Roger Stevens, author of The Great Sophy, "It would be hard to dispute the Iranian claim to have produced the most elaborate, the most decorative, and the most superbly assured carpets in the world" (page 66). ...
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Sophie's World Fourteen year old Sophie Amundsen receives a mysterious letter in her mailbox, with a simple question: Who are you? Later that day, she receives another letter: Where does the world come from? ... Sophie's World uses examples from Sophie's own experiences to keep the story in novel form. ... Sophie is the protagonist of Sophie's World. ...
Sophie's World Sophie's World Looking in her mailbox one afternoon, a fourteen- year- old Norwegian schoolgirl named Sophie Amundsen finds a surprising white envelope containing a piece of paper. ... and "Where did the world come from?". ... Plato's philosophy was that all living things were imperfect copies of the eternal forms in the world of ideas. ... The prime mover, GOD, is perfect and therefore the aspiration of all things in the world, because all things desire to share perfection. ...
