Jostein Gaarder

Socrates was a daring and odd man, and piglet was a surprisingly daring and odd Winnie-the-Pooh character. The two exhibited many similar characteristics, but there are three that are the most striking. First, the physical resemblance is striking. Jostein Gaarder describes Socrates in Sophie’s World, “We know for certain that [Socrates] was extremely ugly. He was potbellied, and had bulging eyes and a snub nose. But inside he was said to be ‘perfectly delightful’” (63). Not only is piglet a…

For example, the word human, we have strayed away from the idea of what it is to be human and rather we have become the word human in that its meaning defines the concept rather than the concept creating the meaning. Jostein Gaarder in his novel Sophie’s World conveys that we have become conformists, he writes “ ‘Today we would probably use the word ‘conformity’; that is when everybody ‘thinks’ and ‘believes in’ the same things without having any deeper feeling about it’…