Sophie's World Chapters 1-6 David Nolasco 11A

1. The Garden of Eden

1.1. Who are you?

1.2. Where does the world come from?

1.3. Space must sometime have been created by something else.

1.4. Sophie was very confused

1.5. She thought that everything that existed had to have a beginning

2. The Top Hat

2.1. Philosopher's search for the truth resembles a detective story

2.2. Experience the world incredulously just as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat

2.3. We are part of the world so it can't all be deceitful

2.4. The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder

3. The Myths

3.1. Stories about persons or Gods

3.2. Tried to explain natural events

3.3. Self-justifying

3.4. Greek philosophers did not trust myths

4. The Natural Philosophers

4.1. Many theories on what makes up nature

4.2. Nothing can come from nothing

4.3. Heraclitus: Everything flows

4.4. Anaxagoras: Natures is built up of an infinite number of particles invisible to the eye

5. Democritus

5.1. He believed that everything was built up of tiny invisible blocks

5.2. Lego is the most ingenious toy in the world

5.3. Nature is really built up of different atoms that join and separate again

5.4. Atoms flowed through nature

6. Fate

6.1. If God or Fate governed the course of history, people had no free will.

6.2. People believed that they could learn their fate from an oracle

6.3. Greeks believed that sickness could be ascribed to divine intervention