Sufi's World: Revealing the Development of Western Philosophy

Hello readers, the book I'm going to introduce today is The World of Sophie.

In the form of a novel, the book reveals the course of the development of Western philosophy through the teaching of philosophical knowledge to a girl named Sophie by a philosophical mentor.

From the pre-Socratic era to Sartre, as well as the ideas of Aristotle, Descartes, Hegel and others, they all jump on the paper through the author's vivid brushstrokes and are explained in the historical context of the time, which is fascinating.

Critics believe that this book is the most suitable primer for those who have never read a philosophy course, and it can also play a role in learning from the past for those who have read some philosophy in the past and have forgotten everything.

Sophie, a 14-year-old girl, kept receiving some very unusual letters, and the world unfolded before her eyes like a mystery.

Guided by a mysterious mentor, Sophie began to think, and she used the innate understanding and acquired knowledge of the girl to try to solve these mysteries. However, the truth is far more bizarre and bizarre than she thought...

Jostein Judd

Born in Norway in 1952, he worked as a high school philosophy teacher for many years.

With the book "Sophie's World", he established the status of a world-renowned best-selling author;

Obsessed with the exploration and thinking of the essence of man and the ultimate meaning of life;

The Norwegian Environment and Development Award, the Sophie Prize, was established.

God is not enough to fear, death is not enough to worry about, misfortune is easy to endure, and happiness is difficult to seek.

- Quoted on page 155

This is what makes philosophers different. Philosophers never get too used to the world. For him or her, the world has always been somewhat irrational, even somewhat complex and mysterious. This is an important ability that philosophers and children share. You could argue that philosophers are as sensitive as a child throughout their lives.

- Quoted on page 18

We can only have opinions or opinions on specific things that belong to the world of the senses. The only things we can really know are those things that we can use our intellect to understand. Precisely because reason only expresses things that are eternal and unchanging and universally common, we can say that reason is eternal and unchanging, and it is universal.

- Quoted on page 87