Summary:
Examines the text Sophies World, by Jostein Gaarder. Summarizes the plot. Describes how by questioning her actual existence, Sophie uses the thoughts of Democritus, Socrates and Aristotle to grasp a solid understanding of the world around her as a way of expanding her uncertainty of life.
We live in a world where everything appears to have specific functions that thousands do not doubt. At an infantile age in life curiosity plays an important role in the foundation of discovery. We discover the cause the sun rising in the east and setting in the west. For a few, the pursuit for wisdom goes much deeper than what can be encountered in a science book. The journey in the study of philosophy is used to convey a new existence of the world and how people examine it in its entirety. Nevertheless, the analysis of the world for philosophers still triggers a sense of mystery to what exists in nature. Among numerous of the greatest philosophers emerges a new thinker who incorporates the old with the new. By doing this it continues the mythology of.....
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