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Sophie's World Study Guide

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by Jostein Gaarder
About 74 pages (22,135 words)
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Sophie is a girl approaching her 15th birthday. She first encounters some odd philosophical questions and then the first chapter of a written philosophy course in her mailbox. Sophie is very interested and starts to learn about the historical beginnings of philosophy. At the same time, Sophie is curious about who is giving her this course. The story is complicated by the fact that Sophie begins to receive postcards addressed to Hilde, a girl also approaching her 15th birthday, from Hilde's father Albert Knag, a Norwegian Major in the UN Forces in Lebanon. (read more)
      Chapter 1, The Garden of Eden
      Chapter 2: The Top Hat
      Chapter 3: the Myths
      Chapter 4, the Natural Philosophers
      Chapter 5, Democritus and Chapter 6, Fate
      Chapter 7, Socrates
      Chapter 8, Athens, Chapter 9, Plato
      Chapter 10, the Major's Cabin, Chapter 11, Aristotle
      Chapter 12, Hellenism
      Chapter 13, the Postcards, Chapter 14, Two Cultures
      Chapter 15, the Middle Ages
      Chapter 16, the Renaissance
      Chapter 17, the Baroque
      Chapter 18, Descartes, Chapter 19, Spinoza
      Chapter 20, Locke, Chapter 21, Hume
      Chapter 22, Berkeley
      Chapter 23, Bjerkely
      Chapter 24, the Enlightenment
      Chapter 25, Kant
      Chapter 26, Romanticism
      Chapter 27, Hegel
      Chapter 28, Kierkegaard
      Chapter 29, Marx
      Chapter 30, Darwin
      Chapter 31, Freud
      Chapter 32, Our Own Time
      Chapter 33, the Garden Party
      Chapter 34, Counterpoint
      Chapter 35, the Big Bang

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