Sophie's Companion: Introduction to Philosophy
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 138
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 140
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Great books deserve to be read more than once. Sophie’s World, by Jostein Gaarder, is just such a great book. Published in 1993 and in English in 1994, it remains a continual best-seller, translated into many languages. In Sophie’s World we watch fourteen-year-old Sophie come of age mentally, as a mysterious mentor guides her into a world peopled with fairy tale characters, a girl in a mirror, and disturbing, thrilling thinkers from history.
This book, Sophie’s Companion, comes alongside you as you read Sophie’s World. It gives you a philosophy course and an interpretive guide, all while you enjoy Gaarder’s fun and challenging novel.
Mark Curtis-Thames is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the El Centro Campus of Dallas College, in Dallas, Texas. Intrigued, disturbed by, but hopeful about the staggering diversity in America and around the world today, his teaching focuses on enabling regular people to understand, deal creatively with, and thrive in today’s pluralistic world.
Part One: A Partner—no, a Reader—no, a Guide—no, a Mentor—Ah! A Companion!
Welcome! An Introduction to an Invitation to Thoughtful Living
It’s a Companion
Well, Yeah, But Why Even?
A Companion to . . . What, Again?
Part Two: What Adult Would Care About A Teenage Girl in School?
Chapter One of Sophie’s World: The Garden of Eden
Chapter Two: The Top Hat
Chapter Three: The Myths
Chapter Four: The Natural Philosophers
Thales the Pre-Socratic
Chapter Five: Democritus
Chapter Six: Fate
Part Three: When The Pupil Is Ready, The Teacher Appears
Chapter Seven: Socrates
Apology
Chapters Eight and Nine: Athens and Plato
Plato
Chapter Ten: The Major’s Cabin
Chapter Eleven: Aristotle
Part Four: A Worldview Rooted in Tradition
Chapter Twelve: Hellenism
Diogenes of Sinope
Epictetus
Epicurus: The Letter to Menoeceus
Plotinus
Chapter Thirteen: The Postcards
Chapter Fourteen: The Two Cultures
Augustine
Chapter Fifteen: The Middle Ages
Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali: From The Deliverance from Error
Hildegard of Bingen: Liber Divinorum Operum (“Book of God’s Works”)
Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica (“Theological Summary”)
Part Five: The Modern Worldview Arises
Chapters Sixteen and Seventeen: The Renaissance and The Baroque
Thomas Hobbes
Chapter Eighteen: Descarteheads
Chapter Nineteen: Spinoza
Chapter Twenty: Locke
John Locke
Chapter Twenty-One: Hume
Chapters Twenty-Two and Twenty-Three: Berkeley and Bjerkeley
George Berkeley
Chapters Twenty-Four and Twenty-Five: “The Enlightenment and Kant
Immanuel Kant
Olympe des Gouges
Mary Wollstonecraft
Part Six: Into The Fog of Now
Chapter Twenty-Six:
Romanticism
Chapter Twenty-Seven:
Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Chapter Twenty-Eight:
Kierkegaard
Chapter Twenty-Nine:
Marx
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
On Liberty, chapter 1.
Chapter Thirty:
Darwin
Charles Peirce
William James
Chapter Thirty-One:
Freud
Chapter Thirty-Two:
In Our Own Time
Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialism Is a Humanism
Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex
Chapter Thirty-Three:
The Garden Party
Chapters Thirty-Four and Thirty-Five:
Counterpoint and The Big Bang
Part Seven: A Concluding . . . Invitation?!
Yes: Invitation…
Bibliography
Endnotes
Dr. Mark Curtis-Thames is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Dallas College in Dallas, Texas, USA. He works especially in the areas of religious and ethical diversity, the nature of human social relationships, and political ethics. He teaches a range of courses in the history of ideas, ethics, critical thinking, and the exploration of diverse worldviews. Married, with two grown children and two grossly-immature cats, Dr. Curtis-Thames enjoys camping and hiking.
Great books deserve to be read more than once. Sophie’s World, by Jostein Gaarder, is just such a great book. Published in 1993 and in English in 1994, it remains a continual best-seller, translated into many languages. In Sophie’s World we watch fourteen-year-old Sophie come of age mentally, as a mysterious mentor guides her into a world peopled with fairy tale characters, a girl in a mirror, and disturbing, thrilling thinkers from history.
This book, Sophie’s Companion, comes alongside you as you read Sophie’s World. It gives you a philosophy course and an interpretive guide, all while you enjoy Gaarder’s fun and challenging novel.
Mark Curtis-Thames is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the El Centro Campus of Dallas College, in Dallas, Texas. Intrigued, disturbed by, but hopeful about the staggering diversity in America and around the world today, his teaching focuses on enabling regular people to understand, deal creatively with, and thrive in today’s pluralistic world.
Part One: A Partner—no, a Reader—no, a Guide—no, a Mentor—Ah! A Companion!
Welcome! An Introduction to an Invitation to Thoughtful Living
It’s a Companion
Well, Yeah, But Why Even?
A Companion to . . . What, Again?
Part Two: What Adult Would Care About A Teenage Girl in School?
Chapter One of Sophie’s World: The Garden of Eden
Chapter Two: The Top Hat
Chapter Three: The Myths
Chapter Four: The Natural Philosophers
Thales the Pre-Socratic
Chapter Five: Democritus
Chapter Six: Fate
Part Three: When The Pupil Is Ready, The Teacher Appears
Chapter Seven: Socrates
Apology
Chapters Eight and Nine: Athens and Plato
Plato
Chapter Ten: The Major’s Cabin
Chapter Eleven: Aristotle
Part Four: A Worldview Rooted in Tradition
Chapter Twelve: Hellenism
Diogenes of Sinope
Epictetus
Epicurus: The Letter to Menoeceus
Plotinus
Chapter Thirteen: The Postcards
Chapter Fourteen: The Two Cultures
Augustine
Chapter Fifteen: The Middle Ages
Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali: From The Deliverance from Error
Hildegard of Bingen: Liber Divinorum Operum (“Book of God’s Works”)
Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica (“Theological Summary”)
Part Five: The Modern Worldview Arises
Chapters Sixteen and Seventeen: The Renaissance and The Baroque
Thomas Hobbes
Chapter Eighteen: Descarteheads
Chapter Nineteen: Spinoza
Chapter Twenty: Locke
John Locke
Chapter Twenty-One: Hume
Chapters Twenty-Two and Twenty-Three: Berkeley and Bjerkeley
George Berkeley
Chapters Twenty-Four and Twenty-Five: “The Enlightenment and Kant
Immanuel Kant
Olympe des Gouges
Mary Wollstonecraft
Part Six: Into The Fog of Now
Chapter Twenty-Six:
Romanticism
Chapter Twenty-Seven:
Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Chapter Twenty-Eight:
Kierkegaard
Chapter Twenty-Nine:
Marx
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
On Liberty, chapter 1.
Chapter Thirty:
Darwin
Charles Peirce
William James
Chapter Thirty-One:
Freud
Chapter Thirty-Two:
In Our Own Time
Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialism Is a Humanism
Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex
Chapter Thirty-Three:
The Garden Party
Chapters Thirty-Four and Thirty-Five:
Counterpoint and The Big Bang
Part Seven: A Concluding . . . Invitation?!
Yes: Invitation…
Bibliography
Endnotes
Dr. Mark Curtis-Thames is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Dallas College in Dallas, Texas, USA. He works especially in the areas of religious and ethical diversity, the nature of human social relationships, and political ethics. He teaches a range of courses in the history of ideas, ethics, critical thinking, and the exploration of diverse worldviews. Married, with two grown children and two grossly-immature cats, Dr. Curtis-Thames enjoys camping and hiking.