The World Of Sofia Essay

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The author is Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian intellectual and author of several novels, stories and children's books. Gaarder often writes from the perspective of children, exploring their sense of wonder about the world.

What I learned in the book "The world of Sofia" was that, like everything we did in life, I taught what each character did, the influence he had on people and that so many things that thanks to them we know now.

It all starts when Sofia Amundsen, 14 years old, receives a letter whose message is a short question: who are you? From there, Sofía will open the doors to what is the inters by the mysteries of the universe, or in other words, the philosophy, and will learn more and more about this subject from an enigmatic philosopher who will later know who he is.
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The course of philosophy that unwittingly begins with an example: Everything is a mystery to us that at the same time we are part of the enigma, as if we were a bug in the skin of the white rabbit that takes in the hat preacher in the middle of a circus, and the philosopher is the one who tries to climb on the hair where he has touched live to see. Sofía continued to receive letters from the philosopher, Sofía wanted to meet her mysterious philosophical teacher, if one night he stayed to spy the mailbox where he left the letters, but only looked at a shadow, then as the philosopher realized that there was been spied he sent a letter to Sofia, but now with a dog named Hermes.

The philosopher sent him a video, where he took her to "Athenas".

In the video the philosopher presented Sócrates the first philosopher and his student or dissatisfied Platón, Sócrates asked him two questions. When Sofia finished watching the video, he stayed a while thinking about the questions that Socrates had asked

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