Sophie always thinks that this garden is an independent world. Every time she heard about the Garden of Eden in the Bible, she felt as if she were sitting in her own little world, observing her Little Paradise.

Who am I? Where did the world come from? She doesn't know. She knows that the world is just an asteroid in space. However, where did space come from? It is quite possible that space has existed for a long time. If so, she doesn't need to think about where it came from. But is it possible that something already exists? Deep down, she doesn't agree with this view. Everything that exists has a beginning, right? Therefore, space must have been created by something else at some point.

-Sophie's world

A brief introduction to the novel

This is a novel about the history of philosophy.

One of the 20th century 100 classic works.

1994 won the German Youth Literature Award and the Best Works Award.

Sophie's World, in the form of a novel, reveals the development of the history of western philosophy through the process of a philosophical tutor imparting philosophical knowledge to a girl named Sophie.

The thoughts from Socrates to Sartre, Aristotle, Descartes, Hegel, etc., are vividly reflected on the paper by the author's vivid brushstrokes, and explained with the historical background at that time, which is fascinating.

Critics believe that this book is the most suitable introductory book for people who have never read philosophy classes, and it can also play a role in learning new things for those who have read some philosophy before and completely forgotten it.

Since the publication of 199 1, the book has been ranked first in the bestseller list of various countries for a long time, and 35 countries around the world have purchased the copyright of the book. By the end of May, 1995, the German version of this book had sold astronomical120,000 copies. Sophie's World is a simple history of human philosophy. It can not only arouse people's deep admiration and admiration for life, but also pay attention to and curiosity about the meaning of life. It can also hang bright masthead lights for everyone's growth-making life move from chaos to wisdom and from confusion to consciousness. ...

Author: Jostan? Jostein Gaarder

Two. Reflections on Sophie's World

Sophie's World is an enlightening philosophical book, which shows every reader the development of philosophy from ancient times to the present with simple words. An email from Sophie's mailbox said, "Who are you?" Starting from letters, Sophie, under the guidance of Albert, started from Athens, the cradle of philosophy, and got a preliminary understanding of Socrates and Plato's philosophy. Her understanding of the Renaissance includes Leonardo da Vinci's paintings, Shakespeare's plays and Gutenberg's printing press ... involving art, science, architecture, mathematics and many other aspects. As for modern times, Albert's Philosophy Correspondence Course contains the philosophical thoughts of Kant, Hegel, Freud and even Marx. Looking at such works, let me see the civilization of all mankind. Wherever Sophie goes, the essence of civilization is everywhere. After reading it, I not only learned something, but also shocked my soul.

"I think, therefore I am", but I am at a loss after reading the whole book. Do I exist? It's just a relative existence in this particular space at this time. I wonder, after many years, everything will be annihilated, will I still exist? Will I exist or have I ever existed? I can't believe that "fear" is my first feeling after reading a book. I wonder if others will feel this ridiculous when reading this book. This is my true and absurd spiritual experience. So far, Sophie's World is the strangest book for me. Really, no book in the past has made me so addicted and deeply "scared". After reading it, I think this "fear" is ridiculous. To solve this fear and absurdity, we must understand the world more clearly through our own thinking, which is probably the ultimate goal of the author.

I originally thought that philosophy was an unrealistic knowledge, but when I read the whole book, I found that philosophy is actually the closest to real life, and philosophy is "a subject about some issues that everyone cares about under the sun". Philosophy should solve all problems that have not been proved by scientific methods-such as good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, order and freedom. I don't think philosophy is a science, because it has no exact formula to calculate and measure. Philosophy is a hypothetical explanation of unknown or unknown things and a pioneer in the pursuit of truth. In our world, only science without philosophy, only facts without insight and values can not save us from disaster and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy gives us wisdom.

This is a good introduction to philosophy, which is different from other troublesome philosophy books. Reading is more like reading a detective novel, which makes people unconsciously follow Sophie to think, explore philosophical issues, visit philosophers, get to know them and enter their world. This book is extensive, but it is not messy. The content of the book is divided into many chapters, and the title of each section points out the center of the content of the chapter, either hidden or obvious; Each section will address several issues. This section is more convenient for people to digest and understand after reading.

For thousands of years, people of all ages and nationalities have been pursuing the same question, such as "Who is man" and "Where does the world come from". It is because of people's curiosity that philosophy came into being. Unfortunately, people's curiosity is decreasing now because of habits. In the process of growing up, we gradually accept the world and take it for granted, and our curiosity is suppressed. From this perspective, our curiosity about the world and our sensitivity to finding problems are not even as good as children's. But philosophers are different, because they are never used to this world. For them, the world has always been unreasonable, even complicated and mysterious. They see the world like children, so they can ask those profound questions, so they can be called wise men. I am also reflecting on myself, whether I have lost my curiosity and whether I should look at the world with a new eye. Even if I can't be like a child, at least I have to think of several reasons when I meet something.

I still have a lot of ideas in my heart, but I don't know how to express them more clearly. Perhaps only after reading this book by ourselves can we feel the shock brought by Sophie's World like me!

After reading this book, I not only gained a lot of philosophical knowledge, but also learned about the lives and thoughts of many philosophers, from which I found some inspiration. Maybe I should change my attitude towards life. ...

Three. Reflections on Sophie's World

"Sophie's World" takes the girl Sophie's strange experience as a clue, and in the form of a novel, it unfolds the abstruse, abstract and pure theory of the history of world philosophy from Plato to the 20th century as a whole, making it easier to understand.

For me, philosophy was only learned as a public course in the distant student days, but it was basically returned to teachers. Reading Sophie's World now, just as a complete layman, peeking at this magical and intelligent world through the crack of the door and writing down what he saw and thought along the way, perhaps thinking about the problem, perhaps his own feelings, is bound to be superficial, childish and sporadic, and may be completely wrong.

Interested, we walked into Sophie's world together. I hope the experts don't laugh.

"Who am I?" And "Where did the world come from?"

1. "Who am I?" This is the first question that the mysterious man threw at Sophie, and a series of other questions extended from this question: what is a person? Is there life after death? Why does life end? What is the meaning of life? Confused Sophie.

I have the same confusion. Who am I? What is the meaning of my existence? Young and frivolous, I once thought I was the center of the world, and everything in the world was born and existed because of me. For example: the grass or stone on the roadside, because I saw and knew it, it existed and had the meaning of existence. Otherwise, it doesn't exist and it doesn't make sense. Later, I learned that this was subjective idealism. Later, when I grew up, I realized that I was an ordinary one among all beings. The world won't stop turning because I have too much or too little. I am just a passer-by. Up to now, I understand that the individual "I" is both ordinary and magical. Ordinary because "I" is just one of the hundreds of millions of products of magical nature, magical because "I" is conscious and thoughtful, and a "I" is a world. Maybe, as I get older, I will have other ideas.

2. "Where did the world come from?" This is the second question that the mysterious man threw at Sophie, which also puzzled Sophie: As we all know, this world is an asteroid in space. So where did space come from? If everything that exists must have a beginning and space must be changed by something, what is it? If God created space, who created it? Because God couldn't create himself, because it didn't exist then? Everything starts from scratch, from scratch. How did "nothing" come from? Sophie really doesn't know.

I don't know: China ancient mythology said that human beings were made by Nu Wa, so how did Nu Wa come from? Pangu split the chaotic world with an axe. Where does the chaotic world come from?

I often wonder: if myth is just a self-defense that people don't understand natural phenomena and can't correctly explain them, then let's look at the scientific explanation. Now science infers that the universe was formed by the Big Bang, and huge energy radiated from the center to all sides, and this process continues. So how did this huge energy that can produce an infinite universe come from? What is its form of existence? What was the world like before this huge energy was generated? Does the universe have boundaries? If so, where is the boundary? What's beyond the border? If not, what is the infinite end of the universe?

I saw a sci-fi movie in which an alien creature went to Earth to look for the Milky Way, and I began to wonder: Why did the Milky Way come to Earth to look for it? As a result, the Milky Way is really hidden in a bead hanging around the cat's neck. The little bead is the vast Milky Way. The lens is infinitely reduced, and the earth → the Milky Way → the galaxy outside the river → the universe finally becomes a bead. It turns out that a universe is a bead, and many universes, that is, many beads, are actually toys of a certain creature (hehe, I don't know if the description is clear, this film seems to be "The Police in Black")!

In fact, I have a similar bold delusion: maybe the earth we live in is just a cell in an organism, and the universe we can't imagine is just a part of the organism. Humans may be parasites on a cell of this creature. There may be a pair of "eyes" looking at us outside the universe, just like our doctors look at cells through medical microscopes. They looked at us as if we were looking at our own cellular structure. The evolution speed of human beings calculated in 10 thousand and 100 million years may be only a moment for some creatures outside the universe.

I still have a lot of puzzles: what was the original origin of the universe? Water, fire, air and earth? Where did the initial water, fire, air and soil come from? Where is the missing link in the process of human evolution from apes to apes? Is there any other space coexisting with our space? Does the black hole that turns pale in the universe lead to that unknown field? If there are other spaces, is it one or more? What about the unknown space? Is it possible to travel through various spaces?

I know I can't find the answer even after reading this whole book, or even reading the book of the whole world, but like Sophie, "Who am I?" "Where did the world come from?" These two questions aroused my interest in reading. I think I will read Sophie's World carefully, not to seek answers, but to make me think. And it is entirely possible that the more you look back, the less you understand.

The understanding and exploration of the world by various philosophical schools is like a blind man touching an elephant. No, exactly, what he touches is much bigger than an elephant. Therefore, he can only contact what he thinks. If you can't jump out of this world and look at the overall situation, you can't understand it correctly at all. However, it is better to touch than not to touch.

postscript

Who am I? Where did the world come from? Where did I come from and where did I die? Why should I appear in this world? What does my appearance mean to the world? Did the world choose me, or did I choose the world?