Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy (FSG Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (716 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374530718 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 544 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Raed said It's hardcover not papercover which I liked but it's very small in size book (I compared. It's hardcover not papercover which I liked but it's very small in size book (I compared it to the pencil in the picture below to have an idea about its size. The other thing it says that "This book is the property of los Angeles United States District ". "World-changing Novel - Philosophy ELI15 - Explained Like You're 15" according to Jonathan Maas. Yeah I can't say enough good things about this book. It really changed the way I see philosophy, and the world. It's just a survey of Western philosophy, from Pre-Socrates, to Socrates, to today.Many books ELI5, Explain it Like I'm 5. This one does it one better - ELI1. A well crafted introduction to philosophy I so envy the talent of an author like Jostein Gaarder who is able to craft such a clever book. If someone has no interest in philosophy at all, they might find the book boring. However, for anyone who has even a passing interest in the subject, this book will grab the
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. 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. The truth is far more complicated than she could ever have imagined.
Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learningbut the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print.One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village