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Wanting to understand the most fundamental questions of the universe isn't the province of ivory-tower intellectuals alone, as this book's enormous popularity has demonstrated. A young girl, Sophie, becomes embroiled in a discussion of philosophy with a faceless correspondent. At the same time, she must unravel a mystery involving another young girl, Hilde, by using everything she's learning. The truth is far more complicated than she could ever have imagined.
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This long, dense novel, a bestseller in the author's native Norway, offers a summary history of philosophy embedded in a philosophical mystery disguised as a children's book-but only sophisticated young adults would be remotely interested. Sophie Amundsen is about to turn 15 when she receives a letter from one Alberto Knox, a philosopher who undertakes to educate her in his craft. Sections in which we read the text of Knox's lessons to Sophie about the pre-Socratics, Plato and St. Augustine alternate with those in which we find out about Sophie's life with her well-meaning mother. Soon, though, Sophie begins receiving other, stranger missives addressed to one Hilde Moller Knag from her absent father, Albert. As Alberto Knox's lessons approach this century, he and Sophie come to suspect that they are merely characters in a novel written by Albert for his daughter. Teacher and pupil hatch a plot to understand and possibly escape from their situation; and from there, matters get only weirder. Norwegian philosophy professor Gaarder's notion of making a history of philosophy accessible is a good one. Unfortunately, it's occasionally undermined by the dry language he uses to describe the works of various thinkers and by an idiosyncratic bias that gives one paragraph to Nietzsche but dozens to Sartre, breezing right by Wittgenstein and the most influential philosophy of this century, logical positivism. Many readers, regardless of their age, may be tempted to skip over the lessons, which aren't well integrated with the more interesting and unusual metafictional story line. Author tour.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.
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The book was an excellent introduction to the history of philosophy. Starting from how our ancestors have tackled the mythologies, the book takes us on a journey of how they ended up with various theories to explain about our existence, the existence of the universe and how they tried to answer the holy grail of ethics - " how should we be? how can we do everything in the right way?" The fictional story accompanying the various philosophies is also very interesting. It took me back to my childhood when I used to enjoy a lot of make-believe stuff. All the philosophies are accompanied by interesting examples to help understand and appreciate them better. To brief it up, we run through the Greek philosophies, the cultural epochs in Europe, Rationalism and Empiricism and the whole picture of it. We are even given an introduction to Darwin, Freud and the Big Bang Theory. This book is truly remarkable in sharing so much of knowledge in just a couple of pages. However, my only regret with this book was that it didn't include much of the Eastern philosophy. Surely, there's a little on Buddhism but that's it. We miss all the giant Indian theories. In any case, I would recommend you to pick up a book because it has made me much more open minded to all points of view and has also evoked me to cherish the various possibilities that could occur in philosophy and in fiction.
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j'ai commendé ce livre et Theo's Ordessey de catherine Clément mais j'ai été livré un different livre au lieu de Theo's Ordesey. mise apart du mauvaise livraison, le deuxieme livre " Sophie's World n'est toujours pas livré jusque là.
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That is right this is a novel about the history of philosophy. It was written by Norwegian professor Jostein Gaarder. Gaarder Now writes other novels and has a large following. I personally found it fun to read and intriguing.
Some readers may think the ending is a little strange however it fits the story perfectly. This novel is used as an introduction point to philosophy. So it would not be appropriate for those that already have a background in philosophy to dismiss this as sophomoric. Everyone has to start somewhere. If you are already a philosopher then it is still an interesting novel with an interesting twist.
Receiving a mysterious letter in the mail, Sophie Amundson is about to embark on a mysterious journey that is mosty correspondents and may become mutch more. We get to join her on her discoveries.
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Some readers may think the ending is a little strange however it fits the story perfectly. This novel is used as an introduction point to philosophy. So it would not be appropriate for those that already have a background in philosophy to dismiss this as sophomoric. Everyone has to start somewhere. If you are already a philosopher then it is still an interesting novel with an interesting twist.
Receiving a mysterious letter in the mail, Sophie Amundson is about to embark on a mysterious journey that is mosty correspondents and may become mutch more. We get to join her on her discoveries.
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