Sophie's World Book Analysis
Sophie’s World is regarded as one of the most innovative ways in which philosophy has been presented to a wider audience. Its story is deceptively simple: a teenage girl receives anonymous letters from a philosophy teacher names Alberto Knox that offers her a course on philosophy. It is part-book, part-experience and it take philosophy to new heights.
The novel boasts an impressive feature, that in which understanding the basic concepts of philosophy have been easier than ever before. No longer do you have to exhaust your resources by outing thousands of dollars and thousands of hours into analysing every little detail from every work from every great philosopher; the book’s author, Jostein Gaarder does it for you.
Philosophy is an extremely …show more content…
The book is targeted towards children (or young adults, for that matter) and hoping to get a fix on the lives of these men are better observed through history. In spite of these, the book still remains engrossing. By sacrificing the literary scale of the book, Gaarder masterfully creates a world that could easily be navigated by kids.
Think of the book as an impressive translated version of every ancient trick in the philosophy books. It also omits redundant terms that would otherwise only burden both writer and reader in trying to explain and grab hold of the true nature of philosophy. To the casual reader, it would still have its charm, especially those who have a knack for detective novels.
The book plays with the idea of the over-all mystery of lie, because that is life isn’t it? Cliché as it may sound, but it is full of mystery. This is what philosophy aims to attain. The solution to life. Although it seems highly improbable, some people have already devoted their life into studying philosophy both as an art and a means to cement their existence in the known …show more content…
These questions therefore encourage us to look at things from a different perspective. . No one person can see things from all perspectives. That is almost impossible and it would contradict the ideas currently taking space in your mind. But, it is imperative to remember the perspectives that have come before you. Kant, for example, combined the rationalist and the empiricist perspectives into his own system. He was able to concoct a solution in which he used to of his perspectives in order to make one final system. But in any civilization, there are those who have their doubts. Marx did not believe in Kant’s system, calling it
The novel boasts an impressive feature, that in which understanding the basic concepts of philosophy have been easier than ever before. No longer do you have to exhaust your resources by outing thousands of dollars and thousands of hours into analysing every little detail from every work from every great philosopher; the book’s author, Jostein Gaarder does it for you.
Philosophy is an extremely …show more content…
The book is targeted towards children (or young adults, for that matter) and hoping to get a fix on the lives of these men are better observed through history. In spite of these, the book still remains engrossing. By sacrificing the literary scale of the book, Gaarder masterfully creates a world that could easily be navigated by kids.
Think of the book as an impressive translated version of every ancient trick in the philosophy books. It also omits redundant terms that would otherwise only burden both writer and reader in trying to explain and grab hold of the true nature of philosophy. To the casual reader, it would still have its charm, especially those who have a knack for detective novels.
The book plays with the idea of the over-all mystery of lie, because that is life isn’t it? Cliché as it may sound, but it is full of mystery. This is what philosophy aims to attain. The solution to life. Although it seems highly improbable, some people have already devoted their life into studying philosophy both as an art and a means to cement their existence in the known …show more content…
These questions therefore encourage us to look at things from a different perspective. . No one person can see things from all perspectives. That is almost impossible and it would contradict the ideas currently taking space in your mind. But, it is imperative to remember the perspectives that have come before you. Kant, for example, combined the rationalist and the empiricist perspectives into his own system. He was able to concoct a solution in which he used to of his perspectives in order to make one final system. But in any civilization, there are those who have their doubts. Marx did not believe in Kant’s system, calling it