Reading "Sophie's World" has a feeling

Reading "Sophie's World" has a feeling

Author: Jostan Judd

Sophie's World is an introductory philosophy book about a little girl named Sophie who one day receives a mysterious letter that sparks her thinking and opens her way to philosophy. I am like Sophie in the book, with her series of philosophical developments, I also began to think about some philosophical questions, who am I? What is the meaning of my life? Where did the world come from?.

Philosophy is boring, but the book seems to be a detective book that is revealing the problems of philosophy step by step. It is like storytelling that philosophy becomes colorful; in each letter the philosopher first asks some questions that make people think, and then answers them one by one, which makes us interested in reading them; which makes us curious about the world, in which the author describes that the only condition for a good philosopher is curiosity. Isn't that what the teenage girl Sophie in the book is? Having a curiosity, the courage to think and ask questions, this is the biggest characteristic of Sophie, which is also a necessary condition for becoming a philosopher, and I think the significance of the author's portrayal of this character lies in this.

Who are we? Why is it here? I never thought about these issues before reading this book, probably not just myself. We are like Sophie's mother, and almost all of us take the world for granted—because we know it all too well. But are we really familiar with the world? The world is so diverse that there are too many problems that we cannot know now to discover, but as if they have nothing to do with us, we do not explore it. As the author uses, the universe is like a rabbit pulled out of a hat by a magician, and we humans are parasites deep in the rabbit's fur. We all lay comfortably deep in the rabbit's fur, uninterested in the magician's secrets. Only the philosopher, constantly climbing up the rabbit's fine hairs, wanted to explore the magician's secrets.

Socrates once said, "The only thing I know is that I know nothing." "Yes, if such a great wise man knows nothing about the world, then what reason do we have not to think about it before?

In fact, problems are everywhere, as long as we are willing to think!

This "Sophie's World" leads the protagonist Sophie to the tip of the rabbit hair of philosophy, and also leads our readers into the temple of philosophy. Let us provoke thinking, let us use our own ideas to understand what is philosophy, maybe philosophy is itself, a different self.

People are always pursuing what they don't know, and I'm no exception, and in the pursuit of the combination of the world's material and spiritual, we often ask ourselves whether the world is real? Are we just living in a parallel space-time, in a certain time-space; we may be dead or may still be alive, and I am not the same as I am now, but she is me, I am her, but the path we choose is different, the result is different, is that world developing rapidly, the rapid development of science and technology? Oh, yes! We can't detect its real existence, but as the author describes, there is no boundary between reality and illusion. And who are we, who are we, are we really there, or are we just an illusion manipulated by a greater individual, like Sophie and Albert? Everything is like a fan. However, when we look at ourselves in the mirror, whether we feel the changes that have occurred unconsciously, we have a real sense of existence, the earth is still rotating, time is still passing, and the cycle begins... Maybe that's philosophy!

"Sufi's World" made me full of curiosity about the world, made me start to think, nature's secrets are still waiting for us to explore; the book describes the philosophers from Rome to modern times to solve the world's secrets, so that people are no longer living in a muddy nightmare, let us become more intelligent; so we should be like the philosophers in the book, dare to think about the impossibility of the world, and use the knowledge they have left behind to further reveal the mysteries of nature and society. It also leaves valuable wealth for our descendants.