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Sophie's World
plot overview
Sophie Amundsen is fourteen years old when the book begins, living in
Norway. She begins a strange correspondence course in philosophy. Every
day, a letter comes to her mailbox that contains a few questions and
then later in the day a package comes with some typed pages describing
the ideas of a philosopher who dealt with the issues raised by the
questions. Although at first she does not know, later on Sophie learns
that Alberto Knox is the name of the philosopher who is teaching her. He
sends her packages via his dog Hermes. Alberto first tells Sophie that
philosophy is extremely relevant to life and that if we do not question
and ponder our very existence we are not really living. Then he proceeds
to go through the history of western philosophy. Alberto teaches Sophie
about the ancient myths that people had in the days before they tried
to come up with natural explanations for the processes in the world.
Then she learns about the natural philosophers who were concerned with
change. Next Alberto describes Democritus and the theory of indivisible
atoms underlying all of nature as well as the concept of fate.
reference:http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/sophie/summary.html
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