Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy

by Gaarder, Jostein

• ISBN13: 9780425156841
• ISBN10: 0425156842
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: PENGUIN

Summary

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought. In order to answer two existential questions, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning--but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

Table of Contents

The Garden of Eden	p. 1
The Top Hat	p. 10
The Myths	p. 21
The Natural Phil Osophers	p. 28
Democritus	p. 41
Fate	p. 47
Socrates	p. 56
Athens	p. 72
Plato	p. 78
The Major's Cabin	p. 94
Aristotle	p. 104
Hellenism	p. 121
The Postcards	p. 140
Two Cultures	p. 149
The Middle Ages	p. 165
The Renaissance	p. 188
The Baroque	p. 216
Descartes	p. 233
Spinoza	p. 247
Locke	p. 257
Hume	p. 267
Berkeley	p. 282
Bjerkely	p. 287
The Enlightenment	p. 303
Kant	p. 322
Romanticism	p. 342
Hegel	p. 360
Kierkegaard	p. 372
Marx	p. 385
Darwin	p. 404
Freud	p. 429
Our Own Time	p. 447
The Garden Party	p. 471
Counterpoint	p. 485
The Big Bang	p. 504
Index	p. 515
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