Text: Sophie's world. This book tells the story of Sophie, a girl of 14 years old, who came home from school one day and found a mysterious letter. Who are you? Where does the world come from? In this way, under the guidance of a mysterious tutor, Sophie began to think about the fundamental problems that masters from ancient Greece to Kant, from Kierkegaard to Freud were thinking about. Most of the plot writers in the book think about his relationship with the world by themselves, and occasionally insert some small chapters about Sophie's constant receipt of some extremely unusual letters, and the world unfolds before her like a path. Sophie used the girl's natural understanding and acquired knowledge to try to solve these traces, but the truth was far more bizarre and bizarre than she imagined.
Sophie's mentor Albert is also very cute. He is a special philosopher. From the initial correspondence to face-to-face correspondence, Albert always attracts people's attention with a special existence. For example, when expounding new philosophy, he always puts on the unique costumes of that era, disguised as the suspense monk costume of Middle-earth, the clown costume of Renaissance and so on. Every time it appears, it is a fashion show of the times, and it is deliberately mysterious. There are also some special experiments and videos in teaching methods. I have to admit that Albert caught the child's longing heart.
Sophie's world can be divided into two parts. The first book is written by Major Abbott, Sophie and philosopher Albert are the characters in the book, while Major Abbott and Sid are the "real characters", while the latter major Abbott, Sid, Sophie and philosopher Albert all become the characters in the book. The truth of the former part is mixed with absurdity, which makes people clearly know that the world is fictional, but the latter part is true, except for one place where the author has made absurd treatment, that is, the golden cross collected by mom for Sid is missing. This book basically covers past lives in the history of human philosophy. Every time I read a chapter, I feel that time becomes very heavy. Ancient sages spent their lives rubbing their hands on paper, and their thoughts attracted me like magnets, which made me unable to escape. Time flies. As soon as the bell rings, a hundred years may have passed. It seems that one in front just visited, but he couldn't get out. Time flies so fast that I have entered a new era before I can digest what I just put in my head. Dizziness is really a long-lost possession. I have known each other for a long time for this book.
I have been thinking that if Sophie has a happy and complete family, this tutor can be taken by her father. However, Sophie's father is not at home all the year round, and his role in Sophie's growth is lacking. Therefore, Sophie's heart longs for the appearance of the spiritual father. Campbell, a famous American comparative mythologist, believes that myth is enduring because it plays a leading role in the spiritual world of human beings by using metaphors and symbols. However, the themes of classic literary works are consistent with those of some myths. In Sophie's world, Sophie's spiritual world entered a brand-new field with the intervention of Albert. This theme has appeared in many fairy tales. The story is often that the mother takes the hero to find her super-powerful father, and finally gets the power to return from him.
"Sophie, we are a living planet. The earth is a big ship sailing around the burning sun in the universe. And each of us is a ship full of genes and has sailed through life. When we safely transport the goods on board to the next port, we will not live in vain. " This is my favorite passage in Sophie's World, which makes people feel the true meaning of life at once. This may be hard to understand, that is to say, we are a small part of this grand world, and we have our unshirkable responsibilities, which is also the true meaning of our life. "If you don't realize that people will die, you won't feel the taste of living." She thought. However, similarly, if you don't think that living is a wonderful and incredible thing, you can't realize the fact that you must die. "I think this is an eternal topic and a sincere feeling after a sincere experience of life.
"Life is sad and serious. We came to this beautiful world, met each other, greeted each other and traveled briefly together. Then we lost each other and disappeared inexplicably, just as we suddenly came into this world inexplicably. " For the alternative explanation of life philosophy, we still have no solution and can only understand it in this way. But since then, we have understood the word cherish. Since our life is so short (to some extent), it encourages us to cherish it. When it comes to philosophy, which is a subject that we can't fully understand, we can only put forward various ideological contents about it. For ordinary people and people who have never studied philosophy, there is no substance at all, but in fact it guides all of us. Although I don't know much about philosophy. But now at least I understand the influence of some philosophy on us.
If you don't touch this book, you may always be the same as the characters in the book say: take this world for granted, and you won't feel the surprise and beauty of this world. Because we always rely too much on habits, ordinary plots and ordinary life, there is nothing new under the sun, and boring life thinking limits life. When reading, I always imagine myself as Sophie who is full of curiosity. I regard the mysterious philosopher in the book as a teacher who inspired my life. In that wonderful world, I think about all kinds of questions thrown by philosophers day and night.
Perhaps, as long as you are curious, you can become a philosopher. In the past, people thought that philosophers only put forward their own opinions through the process of thinking about what they get from everything in the world. In my opinion, philosophy can also be a kind of life, because it contains your perception of the world. With the growth and experience of life, people's ideas will also change. In life, you should get along with all kinds of people as much as possible, and experience his attitude and angle of seeing the world with him; In life, you should know that you are a unique existence in the world, and you are unique, so that you can not be bound by other people's opinions, and you can start to live a brand-new self and have a wonderful life without regrets.
Conclusion: Children, we are not only living in the era we belong to, but also bearing the history. Don't forget that everything you see in this room was once brand-new.
Excerpts from good sentences
1. Life is sad and serious. We came to this beautiful world, met each other, greeted each other and traveled briefly together. Then we lost each other and disappeared for no reason, just as we suddenly came into this world for no reason.
You are too used to the world to be surprised by anything.
True knowledge comes from the heart, not from others. At the same time, only inner knowledge can make people have real wisdom.
But the meaning in our life must be created by ourselves, and the meaning of existence is to create our own life.
Throughout the history of philosophy, philosophers have always wanted to explore human nature. But Sartre believes that people do not have a constant "nature". Therefore, it is useless to pursue a broad sense of life. In other words, we are destined to create this meaning ourselves. We are like actors who have been dragged onto the stage before reciting their lines. There is no script or teleprompter to tell us what to do in a low voice. We must decide for ourselves how to live.
6. What hinders us from achieving real happiness and harmony is our inner impulse. Like our ambition and stupidity. But if we realize that everything has its inevitability, we can intuitively understand the whole nature. We will clearly realize that everything is related and everything is one. The ultimate goal is to understand things in the world from a completely accepted point of view. Only in this way can we get real happiness and satisfaction.
7. Life is sad and serious. We came to this beautiful world, met each other, greeted each other and traveled briefly together. Then we lost each other and disappeared for no reason, just as we suddenly came into this world for no reason.
Throughout the history of philosophy, philosophers have always wanted to explore human nature. But Sartre believes that people do not have a constant "nature". Therefore, it is useless to pursue a broad sense of life. In other words, we are destined to create this meaning ourselves. We are like actors who have been dragged onto the stage before reciting their lines. There is no script or teleprompter to tell us what to do in a low voice. We must decide for ourselves how to live.
9. Freud claimed that our daily life is full of such subconscious mechanisms. We often forget other people's names, touch our clothes when we speak, or move things that are misplaced in the room. We also often stutter or seem innocent to say the wrong thing and write wrong words. But Freud pointed out that these behaviors are not accidental or unintentional as we think. These mistakes may actually reveal our deepest secrets.
10. We may become slaves to all kinds of things, or even to self-centered thoughts. Independence and freedom are the ways to get rid of our own desires and evil thoughts.