Sophie’s World Guide

Hypothesis OF KNOWLEDGEFALL 2012 SOPHIE’S WORLD: READING GUIDE DR. Lobby The epic Sophie’s World (1991) by Norwegian creator Jostein Gaarder offers a voyage through the historical backdrop of Western way of thinking just as a post-current investigator story. We picked this perusing for IB Seniors since it ties in so well with our crucial TOK questions and issues. As a result of the scholarly excursion the novel graphs, it makes an ally to Siddhartha which includes, notwithstanding, an eastern antithesis toward the western direction of Gaarder’s novel.For examination and conversation purposes, I have partitioned the novel into the accompanying five areas. Kindly sort out or compose flawlessly your reactions to this guide on discrete pages. Refer to page numbers for all sections you rework or quote in ( ). You are free to include your own remarks/evaluates. Around one area will be expected every week during the initial 5 †a month and a half of the main quarter . We will talk about your reactions during the relegated a long time of class just as take perusing tests on each area. We may likewise compose practice TOK expositions dependent on thoughts and issues introduced in Sophie’s World.Note that this book is an interpretation. It will improve your comprehension on the off chance that you gaze upward Gaarder on the web. Print and study an article you find provocative; this will be a piece of your article record. I)â€Å"The Garden of Eden† †â€Å"Aristotle†pages 1 †120 This initial area presents Sophie and her universe of home and school. It sets up the connection among Sophie and her way of thinking educator, who speaks with her basically through letters. It surveys a portion of the material we concentrated in the spring (Socrates) and some you have concentrated before at Central (Greek folklore). Make a rundown of the characters as you are acquainted with them. Like Sophie, you will start attempting to dis tinguish Hilde and her dad. 2 For each area make a rundown of the significant schools of theory referenced, notinga trademark thinker and portraying his fundamental ideas.(Do this based on Gaarder’s data despite the fact that you might need to discover increasingly around ones that interest you. ) Cite page ##s in text and additionally sources on the off chance that you look into data. 3Find a few instances of how the PLOT of the novel mirrors the different thoughts regarding which Sophie is learning. Discover a few instances of Gaarder’s utilization of the Socratic strategy. 5Compare Plato’s perfect society with the perfect ward depicted by Gonzalo in Act II of The Tempest. II)â€Å"Hellenism† †â€Å"The Baroque†pages 121 †232 In this area you will find the personality of Sophie’s instructor. You will likewise push ahead in time from the Greek philosophical custom to its replacements in European history up to the l600s. 1Describe the conversations of magic and consider how they may connect to a work like Antigone or Chronicle of a Death Foretold. 2Find the picture of history as a clock; at that point attempt to draw the clock. This may help you to remember the learning style spoke to by the shading wheel in Girl With a Pearl Earring. ) 3Make a note when you stumble into jargon that we have characterized in TOK. 4 Continue your rundown of key savants and their thoughts (or if nothing else the qualities of key philosophical periods). 5In light of Siddhartha and other information, give instances of or perceptions on Western direction in Gaarder’s portrayal of the advancement of thoughts. III)â€Å"Descartes† †â€Å"Kant†pages 233 †341 In this area you will start to determine the riddles of Hilde’s and her father’s identities.There will by hybrids between the first plot with Sophie and the tale of Hilde. 1Why does Gaarder decided to structure his story along these lin es? How may this structure show the philosophical thoughts being introduced? 2Pay specific thoughtfulness regarding the division of brain/body in Descartes and to the similitudes/contrasts among Berkeley and Bjerkely. 3 Recall our conversations of the Enlightenment in the work and composing style of Benjamin Franklin. Find a few sections that help light up (haha) Franklin’s text. 4FOR NEW JERUSALEM: SEE SECTION ON SPINOZA, 247-256.Reflect on Alberto’s address considering the play. 5Explain Locke’s relationship to experimentation. Check implications of the term. 6 Compare/differentiate this conversation of Kant with conversation of Kant and obligation morals in our TOK course reading. IV)â€Å"Romanticism† †â€Å"Freud†pages 342 †446 This area highlights Marx, Darwin, and Freud, some of the time called â€Å"The Triple Thinkers† for their effect on late nineteenth †mid twentieth century history, legislative issues, financial ma tters, science, expressions of the human experience, and human conduct. Notice that â€Å"philosophy† has expanded into what we would call separate disciplinary fields. Do you think the Freud part is appropriately positioned and enticing? Why or why not, founded on what you are aware of Freud from Psychology class and on different sorts of scholars remembered for this book? 2Compare the delineation of Freud in Gaarder with that in Brave New World. 3Discuss the parody of Darwinism in Brave New World with the clarification of advancement in Sophie’s World. Note the comparative titles. 4Do you concur that â€Å"philosophy is the reflection of the world spirit†? (371). Would you be able to give a few representations of this case from your different readings or encounters? V)â€Å"Our Own Time† †â€Å"The Big Bang†pages 447 †513 Please look into a meaning of â€Å"existentialism.† Do you concur â€Å"To exist is to make your own lifeâ €  (458)? Who is Sartre? Who is Camus? You read this Algerian-conceived writer’s novel The Stranger in junior IB English. 2Compare meaning of â€Å"paradigm shift† on 464 with Thomas Kuhn’s. 3What book does Alberto purchase Sophie? Clarify. 4What occurs at the nursery party? Apply â€Å"big blast theory† to the plot(s) of the novel. 5Compare/differentiate Gaarder’s and Kuhn’s (and Franklin’s) disposition toward science, in view of the disordered penultimate scene of every novel. 6Why may the book deduce in a paddle boat on a lake? Clarify the political significance of Hilde’s father’s profound inclusion in Lebanon and in United Nations strategies. What are the likenesses and contrasts among Lebanon and the battle Khaled Hosseini portrays in A Thousand Splendid Suns (and The Kite Runner)? What is the significance of both of these settings for IB? What's going on in the spring/summer of 2011 in the Middle East that coul d be comprehended through the perspective of Gaarder’s epic? 8Go back and read the epigraph by Goethe: is this what the novel is intended to represent? How can it do as such? Who is Goethe? What is the significance of the epigraph for TOK?