I just finished reading Sophie's World: A Novel About the History
of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder.
This book is sooooo insightful and so amazing it will blow your
mind away.
It's like Philosophy for dummies, gives you the ideas behind each
school of thought and explains it quite well.
It's starts with the Garden of Eden, the natural philosophers,
Fate, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and keeps going until it reaches
Marx , Darwin, Freud and finally ending with the big bang.
What I loved about the book is that it tells philosophy in novel
format, mixing the story of a 14 year old, Sophie, who starts
receiving mysterious letters in the mail asking her very hard
questions like: What is Philosophy? Who are you? And Where does the
world come from?
The sender of these letters is an old man called Alberto Knox. With
his letters Alberto and Sophie start exploring the intriguing world
of Philosophy.
This Novel is fantasy colliding with reality where you are forced
to think about Religion, Science the Universe , God and way more
important things than what you usually think about, unless of
course, you are a philosopher.
A page turner, didn't want to put it down. Might be difficult in
some spots but definitely an extraordinary book to read.
I rarely read a book twice but I will definitely read this one
again because its going on the list of my favorite books of all
time. It even might be number one.
Go read it.