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Sophie's World Study Guide
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by Jostein Gaarder
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Sophie's World Study Guide consists of approx. 74 pages of summaries and analysis on Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder. Browse the literature study guide below:
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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