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ISBN: 9780756990695 | 0756990696
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 1/1/2010

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A page-turning novel as well as an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Sophie's World-with more than thirty million copies in print-has fired the imaginations of readers all over the world.

Acknowledgments	p. xiii
The Garden of Eden: at some point something must have come from nothing	p. 3
The Top Hat: the only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder	p. 12
The Myths: a precarious balance between the forces of good and evil	p. 23
The Natural Philosophers: nothing can come from nothing	p. 30
Democritus: the most ingenious toy in the world	p. 43
Fate: the "fortune-teller" is trying to foresee something that is really quite unforeseeable	p. 49
Socrates: wisest is she who knows she does not know	p. 58
Athens: several tall buildings had risen from the ruins	p. 73
Plato: a longing to return to the realm of the soul	p. 79
The Major's Cabin: the girl in the mirror winked with both eyes	p. 94
Aristotle: a meticulous organizer who wanted to clarify our concepts	p. 104
Hellenism: a spark from the fire	p. 120
The Postcards: I'm imposing a severe censorship on myself	p. 138
Two Cultures: the only way to avoid floating in a vacuum	p. 147
The Middle Ages: going only part of the way is not the same as going the wrong way	p. 162
The Renaissance: O divine lineage in mortal guise	p. 185
The Baroque: such stuff as dreams are made on	p. 213
Descartes: he wanted to clear all the rubble off the site	p. 230
Spinoza: God is not a puppeteer	p. 244
Locke: as bare and empty as a blackboard before the teacher arrives	p. 253
Hume: commit it then to the flames	p. 263
Berkeley: like a giddy planet round a burning sun	p. 278
Berkeley: like a giddy planet round a burning sun	p. 278
Bjerkely: an old magic mirror Great-grandmother had bought from a Gypsy woman	p. 283
The Enlightenment: from the way needles are made to the way cannons are founded	p. 299
Kant: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me	p. 318
Romanticism: the path of mystery leads inwards	p. 338
Hegel: the reasonable is that which is viable	p. 356
Kierkegaard: Europe is on the road to bankruptcy	p. 368
Marx: a spectre is haunting Europe	p. 381
Darwin: a ship sailing through life with a cargo of genes	p. 399
Freud: the odious egoistic impulse that had emerged in her	p. 423
Our Own Time: man is condemned to be free	p. 441
The Garden Party: a white crow	p. 465
Counterpoint: two or more melodies sounding together	p. 479
The Big Bang: we too are stardust	p. 498
Index	p. 509
Reading Group Guide	p. 519
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