Realizations (9.20.11)

*This post was copied from my original blog on Google Docs*

We sorted ourselves into smaller groups today, but continued to discuss “Sophie’s World.” At first, we weren’t even sure if Gaarder had actually even criticized philosophy at all in the book, but then we realized that he does seem to have stronger opinions about women’s rights -- he defended them. Furthermore, we discussed that the author makes the story lineal chronologically, but often referred back to other philosophers, which made his approach cyclical, too. The story became more confusing once we learned that Hilde “read” about Sophie in one day, while we thought that all of the events had taken place over a longer period of time. We thought that telling of the story in this fashion actually made it more brilliant.