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R e a d i n g G r o u p G u i d e SOPHIE'S WORLD A Novel About the History of Philosophy Jostein Gaarder ABOUT THIS GUIDE: The questions and topics in this guide are intended to generate a liv...
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Index

Index Abraham, 153, 155 absurd, absurdism, 460-61 academy, 81, 171, 173 Acropolis, 72-76, 161 Adam and Eve, 155, 411, 417, 458 adaptation, 420 Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), 74 aesthetics, 382-83 agnos...
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More praise for the international bestseller that has become "Europe's oddball literary sensation of the decade" (New York Newsday)... Sophie's '' A page-turner.'' "Compelling." "Involving and oft...
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Contents

Contents THE GARDEN OF EDEN ... at some point something must have come from nothing. . . 1 T H E TO P H AT .. ,the only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder. . . 10 T ...
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The Big Bang ... we too are stardust... Hilde settled herself comfortably in the glider beside her father. It was nearly midnight. They sat looking out across the bay. A few stars glimmered palely...
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Counterpoint . .. two or more melodies sounding together. . . Hilde sat up in bed. That was the end of the story of Sophie and Alberto. But what had actually happened? Why had her father written t...
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The Garden Party .. . a white crow... Hilde sat on the bed, transfixed. She felt her arms and her hands tremble, as they gripped the heavy ring binder. It was almost eleven o'clock. She had been r...
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Our Own Time . .. man is condemned to be free... The alarm clock showed 11:55 p.m. Hilde lay staring at the ceiling. She tried to let her associations flow freely. Each time she finished a chain o...
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Freud ... the odious egoistic impulse that had emerged in her... Hilde M0ller Knag jumped out of bed with the bulky ring binder in her arms. She plonked it down on her writing desk, grabbed her cl...
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Darwin . . . a ship sailing through life with a cargo of genes . . . Hilde was awakened on Sunday morning by a loud bump. It was the ring binder falling on the floor. She had been lying in bed rea...
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Marx a spectre is hauntin g Europe Hilde got off her bed and went to the window facing the bay. When she had started to read this Saturday, it was still Sophie's fifteenth birthday. The day before...
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CH028

Kierkedaard Europe is on the road to bankruptcy, Hilde looked at her watch. It was already past four o'clock. She laid the ring binder on her desk and ran downstairs to the kitchen. She had to get...
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Hegel the reasonable is that which is viable Hilde let the big ring binder fall to the floor with a heavy thud. She lay on her bed staring up at the ceiling. Her thoughts were in a turmoil. Now he...
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Romanticism . .. the path of mystery leads inwards. .. Hilde let the heavy ring binder slide into her lap. Then she let it slide further onto the floor. It was already lighter in the room than whe...
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Kant the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me... It was close to midnight before Major Albert Knag called home to wish Hilde a happy birthday. Hilde's mother answered the telephone....
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The Enlightenment ... from the way needles are made to the way cannons are founded. . . Hilde had just begun the chapter on the Renaissance when she heard her mother come in the front door. She lo...
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Ch023

Bjerkel y an old magic mirror Greatgrand mother h a d b o u g h t f r o m a G y p s y w o m a n . . . Hilde M0ller Knag awoke in the attic room in the old captain's house outside Lillesand. She gl...
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Berkeley ... like a giddy planet round a burning sun... Alberto walked over to the window facing the town. Sophie followed him. While they stood looking out at the old houses, a small plane flew i...
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Ch021

um H e co m m it it th en to th e fl a m es Alberto sat staring down at the table. He finally turned and looked out of the window. "It's clouding over," said Sophie. "Yes, it's muggy." "Are you go...
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Locke ... as bare and empty as a blackboard before the teacher arrives... Sophie arrived home at eight-thirty. That was one and a half hours after the agreement—which was not really an agreement. ...
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