Finally, after several months of reading, I finished it successfully.

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Bueno, finalmente he terminado este libro que me llevó más tiempo del habitual porque no podía soportar leer más de un capítulo por día. A continuación, voy a dar mi opinión, y será más larga de lo que suelo escribir porque considero que hay varias cosas por las cuales no me gustó. Las dividiré en tres puntos:

**Punto 1: Aburrido**
Como novela para un público adulto, me parece aburrido. La historia es mínima y carece de conflicto. Es simplemente un curso de filosofía enmarcado en una niña que lo estudia. Si uno quisiera saber de filosofía, sería mejor hacer un curso o leer un manual de conceptos e historia básica. Incluso este podría ser uno si elimináramos a Sofía.

**Punto 2: Peligroso**
Si lo pensamos para un público infantil/juvenil, ya que Sofía, la protagonista, tiene 14 años, y el modo en que está redactado, incluso los ejemplos usados para pensar las cuestiones filosóficas, dan a entender que ese es su público objetivo. Vale la pena agregar que yo lo leí porque me lo recomendó una prima que lo había leído en la escuela.
En este sentido, me horroriza porque me parece sumamente peligrosas las "enseñanzas" indirectas que plantea (no hablo de la filosofía). Quiero aclarar que, como escritora, no estoy de acuerdo con la censura en la literatura, pero cuando se trata de un lector tan joven, creo que hay que tener ciertos cuidados. A continuación, enumeraré esas cosas que me parecen peligrosas (ordenadas por el orden en que aparecen en el libro) que hace la protagonista y que un joven podría tomar de ejemplo:
1. Sofía recibe un curso por correspondencia pero no sabe quién lo manda, no tiene aval de ninguna institución educativa, y lo toma como verdadero aunque podría ser todo falso.
2. Le oculta y miente a su mamá sobre esta correspondencia que recibe porque "los adultos no entienden", algo que le dice su mentor en los correos y ella "comprueba" porque su mamá, sin saber nada, desdeña un razonamiento que ella tiene y que, sin saber del curso de filosofía, parece un desvarío para la madre.
3. Ella quiere conocer a quien le está dando el curso y lo invita a ir a su casa cuando su madre no esté, diciéndole los horarios de ambas. Hoy en día, sabemos con internet lo peligroso que es esto. Es un hombre que ni siquiera sabe el nombre, y aunque algunos puedan decir que fue escrito en otra época donde era menos peligroso, les digo que se informen porque el secuestro de menores para todo tipo de atrocidades (pedofilia, prostitución, esclavitud y trabajo forzado, tráfico de órganos, obligarlos a robar, etc.) han existido desde hace mucho tiempo, algunas de ellas desde la antigüedad.
4. Ella irrumpe en propiedad privada porque está obsesionada con conocer al hombre. Esto es ilegal y peligroso.
5. Cuando él le dice que finalmente se encontrarán personalmente, ella le miente a su mamá que se va a quedar a dormir en una amiga, va a la casa y sale de madrugada, negándose incluso a decirle a la amiga a dónde va. Si le pasara algo, nadie sabría su paradero.
6. Se encuentra con el hombre en un lugar abandonado, apartado de la gente y a la madrugada, porque él así se lo pide. Si quisiera hacerle daño, no hay posibilidad de buscar ayuda.
7. Ella repite varias veces que tiene que volver a su casa por la hora, pero él siempre la termina reteniendo un poco más, hasta que él decide que se vaya.
8. Todo lo anterior se muestra como si estuviera bien, hay algo mágico en el hombre y ella es la afortunada de recibir ese conocimiento. No hay ninguna advertencia de que todos esos comportamientos son peligrosos y que no se debe actuar así.

**Punto 3: Sin resolución**
Como último, señalaré que el misterio que crea el escritor, para enmarcar los conocimientos filosóficos y tenernos enganchados para continuar leyendo, no se resuelve. Tira un dato pero lo deja como en "Continuará...".
Por tanto, me esforcé en llegar al final a pesar del tedio para saber quién era el profesor de filosofía, por qué elige a Sofía y cuál es su relación con Hilde y su padre. Pero solo hace referencia a personas de la antigüedad, de la historia filosófica, que se llamaban así, pero no pasa nada en el presente. Queda inconcluso.

En resumen, aunque el libro tiene algunos puntos interesantes en cuanto a la filosofía, creo que tiene muchos defectos que lo hacen inadecuado para un público infantil/juvenil y aburrido para un público adulto.

This novel is truly extraordinary. I don't think it's easy to find such novels in the history of world literature. From the very beginning, the novel is characterized by a good dramatic hook that distinguishes the plot itself. It can be divided into two main aspects.

The first is the path of philosophy through Alberto Knox's chapters on the history of philosophers, their philosophical projects, and the important ideas that characterized those projects.

The second aspect is the events in the conflict between consciousness and unconsciousness, and between imagination and nothingness in the struggle of Alberto and Sophie to understand their existence and escape from the chrome-magnetic reality of existence in the consciousness of a living being.

I don't want to talk about what I liked in the novel because it is mostly wonderful and has aroused endless admiration within me. However, I was dominated by several reservations about mentioning it here, and they are not many, perhaps only two or three.

The first point is that the author seems to be influenced by the romantic classical view of the Arab contributions in the golden age of Islam in human civilization and philosophy, simply because it was an intermediate stage and the Arabs played the role of temporary custodians of the Greek heritage and their ancient philosophy. Then, he only mentions Ibn Khaldun (and only mentions him as a passing note in two lines), which can be explained in a certain way through the common pattern that the vast majority in the West believes today. But a person like this, who is aware of the history of philosophy in such a wonderful way, should not miss such a point!

The second point: It is good that the novel contains characters whose work and influence are not mainly related to their philosophical projects, but rather the consequences of their scientific ideas and their philosophical implications are the ones that are truly influential, and this is most clearly shown in the chapter that tells about Darwin. But despite all this, the talk about modern contemporary philosophy after that, even in the time period that the story is supposed to tell in the early 1990s of the last century, we cannot ignore the role that scientific development has played in our understanding of the universe and the world from the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. And perhaps the last chapter about the universe is the answer to that, but this matter is subject to my third or last reservation, which will answer this question that someone may ask when reading what I am writing now.

The third point: As I said, the last chapter was not enough for us to talk about contemporary philosophy or talk about the age of science where its concepts dominate our view and the whole world around us. Despite all this, the treatment of the idea of the Big Bang was full of scientific errors.

Perhaps I fully understand the difficulty of presenting the idea of the unique universe and the details of this matter, but the simplification that omits the widespread ideas about the Big Bang, the expansion of the universe, and cosmological concepts rises to a state of complete ignorance, which I find a lot these days in most books for non-specialists that try to deal with this point.

But despite all the previous reservations, this was one of the reading pleasures that I had in my life.

I leave it with the hope of returning to it again one day.

Or perhaps I will find another inspiring novel that touches the soul like it one day.

Who knows?

**"A Review of 'Sophie's World'"**

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. We seek refuge in Allah from misfortune. The moment has come to end the story of the Sufi world and write a review about it.


We have been waiting for this moment :))))




Sufi said:


- You are the most just and noble professor of philosophy I have known in my life.


And I have learned more from him than I have learned in school in eight years.


And it was true.






I can now think or imagine that Sophie is an ordinary Egyptian high school student and the philosopher Alberto came to her and told her the story of philosophy, history, the world, and geology together.


And she gave up her special lessons, rather she loved those subjects and lived in them, and answered a need and ninety, and it is not far that I entered the faculty of philosophy to study philosophy after that.


And I said in my heart, "Oh, you blessed girl!!!"


I wish I had found this story when I was in high school.



Far from joking, I have learned in 8 days from reading this story what I have not learned in 16 years of education.


Without any exaggeration, really.






I wish every philosophy teacher would speak in Alberto's way or explain the curriculum in the way of Hilde's father or the author himself.


I wish all teachers of all subjects would do this seriously, so that our education would be profound in every sense of the word.



The story is about Sophie, the girl who receives letters from the philosopher Alberto, which keep her mind busy getting to know him closely and explain to her all that humanity has gone through in terms of theories and changes, from the atom to the stars and the universe.


The book contains a lot of destructive information. Entire books have been arranged in a way that makes them connected and cannot be separated in an unusual way. It is amazing how the author's ability to create a wonderful fictional world to this extent and a story that contains information that would not have reached my mind even if I had read references in it.


In a simple way and in a very exciting framework.



The beginning of philosophy through Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, and the Sophists.


Ancient and modern philosophy from it.


The Acropolis and the Greek ruins - told about the Middle Ages and its characteristics - then moved from it to Isaac Newton and his scientific theories and whether they conflict with the philosophical thinking of the universe, existence, and man through religions and the story of the Jewish creation and benefited a lot in Christianity and described Christ as being either God or a human or both and the reason for the Jews' rejection of him and what was his message and whether the ideas of the Holy Book conflict with what scientists have reached, especially philosophers...


It bravely talks about the idea of the existence of God, what proves it and what denies it. There is a lot and a lot of talk on this subject in a very wonderful way.



And I recorded here this position that was mentioned in the book and I really liked it.


There was a Russian astronaut who was discussing one day with a Russian brain surgeon about religion. The surgeon was a believing Christian, while the astronaut was not a believer. So the astronaut said:


(I have traveled in space many times, but I have never seen God or the angels.)


The surgeon replied to him, saying:


(And I have performed many operations on very intelligent brains, but I have never seen any idea!)



The author then smoothly moves to classicism and its main landmarks through the Baroque era - talks a lot about Hellenism that I studied and memorized for a whole year and took an exam in it and did not understand anything in it.


In a few pages, he made me understand what Hellenism means.



It talks about very important personalities in history in an amazing and wonderful orderly manner, such as Descartes, then from him to Baruch Spinoza, then to John Locke, then to Berkeley.


Personalities that I did not know existed and explained their views in a very simple and wonderful way.



Then it talks about French Enlightenment philosophy and talks about the personality of Kant, then the Romantic era, then Hegel, and also Kierkegaard.


Then it told us about Marxism and Marx himself and how the Marxists were divided into two types in their approach to his theories.


Then it talks about Darwin and his shocking theories and how society received them at that time.


Then it moves on to Freud and tells us a very scary side of the science of psychology, consciousness, the unconscious, the ego, the id, and the imagination and its repression.


I really liked the story of the turtle and the forty-year-old mother as a very wonderful example of depicting how the mind chokes the imagination.



Then it reaches existentialism and from it to the universe and its journey, the form of the soul, and its essence.



All of this you will find in this story, Sophie's World.


Isn't this amazing??? Isn't this profound that all this information is presented to the reader in one book in a smooth and easy-to-understand style and also with very close examples to the reader's mind so that the information is engraved in his mind.



This is my form of all the information or ideas I read in the story :D

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My problem is that I don't stay in the same book for more than four or five days because I read a large number of pages in one day. But this story really must be read carefully because every page contains a lot of information that must be understood bit by bit.


And we cannot skip a part and leave a part because he made all the sciences in a creative and interconnected way, depending on each other.



Therefore, it is difficult to quote from the story.



And finally, I stopped a lot at the end.


Alberto is a philosopher and Sophie is nothing but fictional characters in the author's mind, like Hilde, the little girl, who in turn is a character in the mind of the author, Gaarder.


I wondered what life is like when it is similar to a story written by the hand of Allah, the Exalted.


I felt in an indirect way that the author wants to describe the difference between destiny and fate with this sudden and strange ending.



This is the most beautiful part of the story, the part related to the dialogue between Alberto and Sophie. They are part of the author's mind, and Hilde, who in turn is part of the story of another author, the hidden one... This series of orders leads us to Allah, the Exalted.



I highly recommend reading this story and even making it in the school curriculum :D






And I would like to point out that I read the Arabic translation by the author Ahmed Lutfi and not the translation by the author Haya.


Ahmed's translation brings the story to 676 pages.


And its style is very wonderful and accurate.


Then I flipped through the translation by the author Haya and felt that the two translations are somewhat similar, but there are many differences.


I felt that Haya's version is shorter and some things are written in a different way.






Five stars are much less than its due.

For a long time, I wanted to read about philosophy, its principles and history. And considering the reviews and... I chose "The World of Sufism" as my first book and I'm satisfied with this choice. It explains philosophy at a basic level very easily and vividly! Although these topics are a bit scattered and you can't learn a lot by reading it once, but it gives you a general view of philosophy which will probably be very helpful for reading future philosophy books. I want to read more about philosophy. Please recommend a book for me :)

Philosophy is a vast and profound subject that has intrigued humans for centuries. It delves into the fundamental questions of existence, knowledge, ethics, and more. By reading about philosophy, we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and the world around us.

"The World of Sufism" provides a great introduction to the world of philosophy. It presents the ideas and concepts in a way that is accessible to beginners. The author uses simple language and examples to explain complex philosophical theories. This makes it an ideal book for those who are new to the subject.

However, it's important to note that this book is just the tip of the iceberg. To truly understand philosophy, one needs to read a wide range of books and explore different philosophical traditions. There are many great philosophy books out there, each offering a unique perspective on the subject.

If you're interested in reading more about philosophy, I would recommend starting with some of the classic works. For example, Plato's "Republic" is a must-read for anyone interested in political philosophy. Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" is another great book that explores the nature of virtue and happiness.

In conclusion, reading about philosophy can be a rewarding and enriching experience. It can help us to think more deeply about the important issues in life and to develop our own philosophical perspectives. So, if you have the time and the inclination, I encourage you to pick up a philosophy book and start reading.

Aristotle, an ancient Greek philosopher who lived thousands of years ago, believed that philosophy was born out of human wonder. He thought that the very fact of being alive was so strange that philosophical questions would naturally arise.

The truth is that my knowledge of the history of philosophy is like Socrates' knowledge of the Internet...

Although it was required of me in the second year of high school, with my ten years of experience in Al-Azhar, through taking notes and hard work, I learned that those who don't take notes won't succeed. So this year, I decided not to open any book throughout the year...

The conclusion of this confusion and what I want to say is that I am as far away from philosophy as possible, and I can't even define my feelings towards it! My attitude towards the book was initially skeptical (I can't read about philosophy without falling in love with it!), and after I finished the novel, I still had no feelings towards philosophy.

A Sufi scholar as a book is great, but as a novel, it's just good...

If we talk about it as a novel, it's a surprisingly engaging novel, to say the least. It's told in a wonderful way, but the dialogue is rather poor in a way. It exists more to serve the narrative than as an essential element of the novel. You can see that most of Sufi's responses are like: "I understood," "Like," "Clear," which shows that it's a bit memorized, and many of the responses are neither vivid nor enriching...

In the first 150 pages, the philosopher's letters to Sufi in the novel were rather cold, as if we were facing a philosophy course rather than a novel... Then the novel gradually got out of this state, and we entered a completely different curve after Sufi and Alberto discovered that they were characters in a novel, which was the only event that made me feel like I was reading a novel... The ending is good... The novel itself is more historical than philosophical, and as the author said at the end of the novel, he wanted to write the history of philosophy and address it to the youth. I think for this reason, he presented it in a novel format.

If we talk about it as a historical book, it's a great book that loves the history of philosophy in an excellent way... It covers every era of philosophy: from the beginning of the Greek philosophers, the pre-Socratic period where there were natural philosophers like Democritus, through the periods of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Hellenistic period where there were the Cynics, the Stoics, the Epicureans, the Neo-Platonists, and it also talked about Sufism, Judaism, Christianity, and then it moved on to the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Baroque period, Descartes, Spinoza, the empiricist philosophers, the rationalists, it covered the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx, Darwin, Freud, and then it talked about the modern era where there were the existentialist, materialist, and Neo-Marxist schools, and others. It ended this journey in history with the Big Bang theory - in a very simplified way, and explained each of the philosophers' theories with simple examples... What tired me was the part about Plato and the modern era where the existentialist school was, I had to read them several times.

Plato's story about the people chained in the cave is one of the parts that I liked the most in the novel, and the part about Hume was also interesting. You feel that it's different from the rest of the novel, and the part about Freud was one of the things that excited me the most, because I love psychology, and the information I encountered in it was extremely wonderful.

The best thing about the book is that the author is not biased towards a particular philosopher or a particular point of view, but rather he just presents and simplifies the theories.

And what caught my attention in the novel was the philosopher's words to Sufi:

"Philosophy is not something that can be learned, but rather it is possible to learn to think in a philosophical way."
And his words: "True knowledge only comes from within each of us and no one can force it upon us."

As for the story of the astronaut and the surgeon, it's an extremely wonderful story, and the surgeon's answer was profound. The astronaut said to him:

"I have been to space several times and I have never met God or the angels."
So the surgeon replied:
"As for me, I have performed several operations on the human brain and I have never come across any idea."

There is also a moment that requires us to stop and think carefully, and it's in the conversation between Alberto and Sufi when Alberto is late for his appointment:

"Sufi: Have you looked at the time? It's a quarter past twelve.
Alberto: Isn't this what we call 'the quarter of an hour allowed'?"

Oh God, what beauty. This shows that all Egyptians are philosophers. When my friend asks me: What delayed you? I will answer with confidence: With philosophy. How wonderful you are, Alberto!

At the end of the novel, Alberto and Sufi will leave the white rabbit after learning everything, and the ending is good.

This book opened many doors for me that I had never stepped through before, and made me have a strong need to read about every philosopher to understand them better... I think it's an excellent introduction to philosophy.

If you set a specific time to read this novel, you're wrong, my dear; it requires taking your time to read it in order to enjoy it as it should be.

Νάιντις.

Ephebeia, basketball, parties, loneliness, curtains for girls, girls, Pink Floyd, Holes, Freedom of expression, Click (of Terzopoulos, no one ever let us down), CINEMA, Pop & Rock, Instead, Para Pente, CDs, vinyl records, cassettes, tabletop, outdoor, province, family, soy, friends, reading for school, the foster home, our party, Hyperrealism, Poetry, Philosophy.

In the search, then and still.

The world of Sofia. The first - so massive - book I read. Philosophy for the uninitiated and magic for all. So many memories and only (;) five stars in the book that reminded me of all the above? Ah! And I will never forget how difficult it was for someone to read the Norwegian place names (if I remember correctly, it had some words, real railways!).

This text seems to be a collection of various words and phrases that might be related to the author's experiences or interests. It could potentially be developed into a more detailed narrative or exploration of these themes. For example, the author could expand on their memories of reading the first book, describe their experiences with the different forms of media like CDs and vinyl records, or share more about their time in the province or at the foster home. By adding more context and details, the text would become more engaging and meaningful.

Perhaps the author could also explore the connections between these different elements. How did their love for music, like Pink Floyd, influence their view of the world? Did their experiences in the foster home shape their understanding of family and friendship? These are just some of the questions that could be explored to further expand and enrich the text.

A Journey in the History of Human Ideas.

The book is supposed to be targeted at young people to introduce the philosophical theories throughout the ages. However, the truth is that my knowledge of philosophy is very limited. I can know most of the names, but I don't know in detail what they did. That's why the topic was a bit heavy on my mind and quite boring at many times.

In the Egyptian education system, we cannot learn something pure about philosophy, especially in the scientific department. And I think this deprives us of an important part that could have an impact on our thinking.

Philosophy plays a crucial role in shaping our understanding of the world and ourselves. It helps us question assumptions, think critically, and explore different perspectives. By not having a comprehensive education in philosophy, we may miss out on valuable opportunities for intellectual growth and development.

It is essential that we recognize the importance of philosophy and find ways to incorporate it into our educational curriculum. This could involve introducing philosophy courses at an earlier stage, providing more resources and support for teachers, and encouraging students to engage with philosophical ideas through discussions, debates, and writing.

In conclusion, while my initial experience with the topic of philosophy was challenging and sometimes dull, I now understand the significance of this field of study. We should strive to make philosophy more accessible and relevant to young people, so that they can benefit from its wisdom and insights.

**Jostein Gaarder - The World of Sophie**

Jostein Gaarder is a Norwegian author born in 1952. He has written 19 books, including short story collections and novels. His first book was published in 1986, and the latest in 2016.

The World of Sophie is his fourth book and one of his most widely known works. It was published in 1991 and is a novel that讲述了哲学的历史. The reader may be surprised by the presence of Darwin and Freud in the list of philosophers that Gaarder discusses, as they are not strictly philosophers. However, this is part of the charm of the book.
This novel is a prime example of using a novel as an educational tool. Given Gaarder's family history - his father was a school inspector and his mother was a writer of children's stories and books - we can see a beautiful combination of both professions in Jostein. He is both a teacher and a children's book author. This novel may not appeal to those who generally enjoy novels for the sake of the story, as the story here is secondary to the educational subject. Perhaps the story is just an example of some of the ideas of the educational subject.
We may also ask the eternal question: Can an educational novel be as strong artistically as a narrative novel? The answer is always no. Using a novel for educational purposes will be successful educationally, but it will definitely weaken the novel artistically. This is clearly seen in this novel, where the story is completely secondary to the educational subject of philosophy. Nevertheless, this novel has been moderately successful and has been translated into 60 languages, which led to Gaarder establishing the Sophie Prize for environmental development. Gaarder is known for his important environmental activities. The prize was established in 1997 and ended in 2013 due to lack of funding. The value of the prize was $100,000.
The reader will surely notice the style that is very similar to children's books. In fact, it is not entirely for children, but rather for those who are the age of the protagonists of the novel, "Sophie" and "Hilde", which is 14 - 15 years old. However, despite this, it serves as an introduction and summary to all the history of thought - philosophy - that humans have known.
The novel centers around the story of Sophie and her philosophy teacher who suddenly appears before her 15th birthday to give her lessons on the history of philosophy from its beginnings before Socrates to the modern era. While this is the main story, the story of Hilde, who is the same age as Sophie, also comes to the surface. And their stories merge exactly when they reach the philosopher Berkeley, in a physical and practical example of his philosophical thought. Here, I may quote some similar ideas in literature:
"Life is basically a game of some kind. The prerequisite is that the players must suffer from loss of memory, and then they must cope in the best way possible with the series of choices presented to them over a period of three-quarters of a century. In this case, we can consider the criminals as the losers, for they are the ones who chose the worst possible alternatives. As for the winners, they must be those who came close to victory through the usual 'forgetting' with which we start the game." - Colin Wilson, "Man and His Hidden Powers".
Also:
"In the novel 'The Mysterious Stranger', Mark Twain makes a disturbing assertion that God is too lonely to be alone in an empty universe, so he created the shadowy dream that we call life, where there is no one real but himself, and the others are mechanical beings made to seem alive."
Also:
"The founder of the science of science, L. Ron Hubbard, says that people are gods who created the world as a game for themselves. They descended into it, and then became victims of losing their memories, and thus fell into the pride of their game." - Colin Wilson, "Man and His Hidden Powers".
This is what Gaarder tried to convey in the end - the awakening that we may be a dream of other beings, and all our lives, knowledge, and precious things are just illusions. And how interesting this idea is.
We return again to Darwin and Freud. They are not philosophers, but Gaarder could not ignore what they put before us, which was the basis for important philosophical thought after them. As I mentioned earlier, Darwin, Freud, and Smith are the basis on which Western civilization was built. In fact, Gaarder has the right to simplify the ideas of all philosophers from Socrates and before Socrates to Sartre and after Sartre. I don't think philosophy can be simplified more than what Gaarder has done here.
One point remains: In the last scene, the philosophical party of Sophie and her teacher, we see Sophie's 15-year-old friend Joanna suddenly accept the boy Joachim without prior warning. And it doesn't end there. They engage in a passionate embrace in front of everyone and then turn under a peach tree while Joanna's father watches, saying: "It is impossible to stop sex." This is an extremely symbolic scene. Joanna is between a child and a woman, and Gaarder did not shy away from depicting this scene that is furthest from childhood. In fact, there is no fault in Gaarder for this. He is only showing us what he has perceived as "human animality" as a result of the work of Darwin, who proved the animal origin of humans, and Freud, who emphasized the need not to suppress the animal instincts that drive humans and form their main motivation for behavior. The result is this scene. The scene of Joanna the child/woman taking her first sips from the cup of sex and liking it, while her father watches from a distance without the ability to prevent her. If we are living a dream in the imagination of other beings, perhaps we are "higher", but why should we suppress what we truly are - just sexually promiscuous animals? It may be unfortunate that a civilization in such a state of regression is the civilization that dominates this beautiful planet. However, this is always the case with a civilization in which science flourishes, no matter how great the moral regression. It will prevail, at least for a while.
Then comes the issue of Sophie and her teacher's escape in affirmation of Berkeley's idea.
In conclusion, this is a more than excellent work. If it weren't for the scene of Joanna, I would have recommended it to everyone who has reached the age of 14 to read. In any case, it is one of the books that must be read at some point in life. But, definitely at an age older than 14.

Read this book if the following conditions are present in you:

- If you are a lover of philosophy.

- If you don't like philosophy.

- If you are a lover of novels.

- If you don't like novels.

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A Sufi world will completely charm you

Between useful pleasure and pleasant benefit.

A book that will change - and I bet - your thinking and your view of life.

...

“The Sufi has reached the conclusion that philosophy is not something that can be learned, but rather one can learn to think in a philosophical way.”

This book offers a unique perspective that can appeal to a wide range of readers. Whether you have a passion for philosophy or not, whether you love novels or not, it has the potential to engage and inspire you. The Sufi world it presents is full of charm and mystery, blurring the lines between pleasure and benefit. It challenges your existing thinking and view of life, inviting you to explore new ideas and ways of looking at things. The statement about philosophy not being something to be learned but rather a way of thinking philosophically is a thought-provoking one that can lead to deeper reflections. Overall, this book seems to have the potential to be a truly transformative read.

The world of Sophie is a novel that the Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder managed to present in a mysterious, exciting, and thought-provoking way, simplifying the history of philosophy and philosophers in a fictional format.

This intelligent novel makes you fall in love with Sophie's story, a fourteen-year-old girl who suddenly receives philosophy lessons by mail from a person she doesn't know, disrupting her peaceful life and presenting her with the great mysteries of the universe.

"The philosopher is a person who has not been able to return to the world. And the world remains for him something inexplicable, something strange, and puzzling."

Sophie finds herself for the first time facing questions she can't answer. The first letter contains a simple two-word question ("Who are you?") but it's a tricky riddle that some people may spend their lives trying to answer and perhaps leave this world without a clear answer.

"Isn't it strange that she doesn't know who she is?"

The lessons she receives seem to lead to an endless stream of questions that have been faced by hundreds of philosophers throughout history. Maybe Sophie's knowledge of their attempts to answer those questions allows her to think about answering her own questions.

"Philosophy is not something that can be learned but rather one can learn to think philosophically."

The period of philosophy that has lasted for thousands of years, the purpose of simplifying it for Sophie is not to preserve it for different philosophy schools or for the names of philosophers and the repetition of their ideas, but it is a journey whose most important goal is to change Sophie's way of thinking, not to submit to the dazzle of trivialities.

But who is Hilde Moller Knag, whose father Major Albert Knag keeps sending postcards from Lebanon to Sophie to reach her? And why do the birth dates of Sophie and Hilde and their ages seem to be the same? And who is Alberto Knox, the sender of the mysterious letters?

The answers to these questions and many others can be found in this remarkable novel, but there will always be questions whose mystery lies in remaining unanswered.