1996《我從外星來》（又名《喂，有人在嗎？》）（Hello? Is Anybody There?）
一艘太空船穿越廣袤的銀河，嚮着一顆藍藍緑緑的星球一地球前進。來自艾爾喬星的男孩米加打開艙門，對着夜空大喊：“喂，有人在嗎？”《喂，有人在嗎？》是喬斯坦.賈德繼《蘇菲的世界》、〈紙牌的秘密〉之後推出的最新力作。故事場景從西方哲學的原鄉歐洲大陸延展至無垠的外達空，敘述小男孩喬金和外星人米加的第三類接觸奇遇。〈蘇菲的世界〉提出了“你是誰？”、“世界從哪裏來？”等問題：〈喂，有人在嗎？〉問的是“我們是誰？”、“我們從哪裏來”？ 可以說是一本“小蘇菲”。作者透過深入淺出的童話形式，讓奇遇之謎和哲學主題不斷地碰撞，穿透夢境和現實，極具夢幻寫實趣味，也展現出一個至為恢宏的地球觀和宇宙觀。
一艘太空船穿越廣袤的銀河，嚮着一顆藍藍緑緑的星球一地球前進。來自艾爾喬星的男孩米加打開艙門，對着夜空大喊：“喂，有人在嗎？”《喂，有人在嗎？》是喬斯坦.賈德繼《蘇菲的世界》、〈紙牌的秘密〉之後推出的最新力作。故事場景從西方哲學的原鄉歐洲大陸延展至無垠的外達空，敘述小男孩喬金和外星人米加的第三類接觸奇遇。〈蘇菲的世界〉提出了“你是誰？”、“世界從哪裏來？”等問題：〈喂，有人在嗎？〉問的是“我們是誰？”、“我們從哪裏來”？ 可以說是一本“小蘇菲”。作者透過深入淺出的童話形式，讓奇遇之謎和哲學主題不斷地碰撞，穿透夢境和現實，極具夢幻寫實趣味，也展現出一個至為恢宏的地球觀和宇宙觀。
如果這個世界是一場魔術表演，它背後一定有個偉大的魔術師，我希望，有一天，我能把他揪出來，但是，如果魔術師從不出現，你又怎能拆他的把戲呢？』紙牌的秘密
漢斯與父親從挪威到希臘，尋找離傢多年的母親，在途了漢斯遇上奇遇，得到一本衹有放大鏡纔可看到的小圓面包書，內容是一名水手遭遇船難，流落到一個奇異的小島，島上有５２個古怪的人物，原來是一人幻想中的一幅紙牌變成活生生的人物，故事虛幻迷離，故事中又含有另一個故事。然而漢斯卻要保守秘密，在途中偷看小圓面包書，不能告欣父親，最後發現這個二百年前的故事卻與漢斯有關．．．
作者喬斯坦．賈德保持一嚮的作風，除了一顆赤子之心，在故事中註入哲學的思想讓人墮入撲朔迷離的故事之餘，也不斷反思人生的問題，發人深省，值得提的是譯者李永平的功力深厚，把作者的筆觸充分展現於讀者的眼前。
本書已被譯為23種不同的語言，在世界各地發售，並榮獲『挪威文學評論協會奬』及『文化部奬』。如果以十粒星為滿分，這本書絶對值十一分！
紙牌的秘密-緻中文版讀者
每個人心裏都活着一個小醜——緻中文版讀者
最近這幾年來，每回去逛書店，我們這群對哲學有興趣的人總會感受到一種暖昧的樂趣。看到那——堆堆陳列在亮麗“新時代’，(Ncw Age)、“另類哲學”(A1ternatiVe Philosophy)下的新書，我們都會忍不住買上丁L本。另類哲學一本本展示在我們眼前，任由我們挑選，確實令人興奮，但我們同時也期盼這傢書店能供應更多“真正的”哲學書。我們在書架間兜來兜去，找了老半天，終於不得不面對一個事實：在偌大的一傢書店，要買一本真正的哲學書還真不容易呢。
這個現象馬上就要寫改變了。我們正面臨－－一個強勁的哲學復興運動。也許，我們對那些“另類玩意”已經感到厭足。這一類書，有些的確很有趣，但也攙雜着太多糟粕。
說穿了，另類哲學不啻是一種哲學式的春宮一—或許我們可以管它叫“速成哲學”。打開書本，一晃眼你就被引進一個哲學奇境，如同春宮電影或色情小說“瞬間” 把你吸入情欲世界。可是，大部分“另類哲學”跟真正的哲學壓根兒扯不上半點關係；同樣的，春宮電影呈現的並不是真誠的愛情。哲學和愛情都需要時間來培養、深化。追求智慧和愛情，是不能抄近路走捷徑的。
哲學興起於古希臘城邦的市集。今天，哲學同樣可以興起於小孩子就讀的幼稚園。這幾年來，我一直鼓吹將哲學帶回到最早的兩個根源——市場和學校。我願藉此機會，嚮中文版讀者說明，在《紙牌的秘密》一書中，我是如何將哲學帶回到人類的童年。我的另一本書《蘇菲的世界》，強調的則是哲學和市集之間的密切關係。這兩本書其實是姊妹篇，相輔相成。
《紙牌的秘密》這部小說的主角，是一個叫漢斯湯瑪士的小男孩。他跟隨父親，展開一趟漫長的穿越整個歐洲的旅程，進入“哲學的故鄉”。我想透過這樣一個故事，表達我對歐洲文化傳統和歷史的一些看法。我的最大企圖．是以年輕人覺得有趣的方式，嚮讀者們提出——連串有關生存的根本問題。
前往雅典的旅途中，在巧妙的機緣安排下，漢斯湯瑪寸：獲贈一本奇異的小書。那本書把他帶到公元1790年發生的——場海難。故事的主人翁是個名叫佛洛德的水手。船沉沒後，他漂流到加勒比海的—座荒島上，獨居五十二年；陪伴他度過漫長歲月、幫助他排遣寂寞的，就是隨身攜帶的—副撲剋牌。說也奇怪，後來這五十三張紙牌竟然變成了五十三個有血有肉、活蹦亂跳的侏儒。這群小矮人在島上建立一座村莊，環繞着佛洛德。除了—個侏儒外，他們都無法解釋自己究竟是誰、來自何方。唯—知道奧秘的侏儒，就是撲剋牌中的那張“醜角牌”。
在《紙牌的秘密》這本書中，小醜象徵“圈外人”——一他能夠看到別人看不到的人生真相。最重要的是，他能夠體認人生是場有趣的冒險。所以，在島-上那些日子。他不斷嚮同胞們提出有關人生的新問題。
在人生的紙牌遊戲中，我們每個人一生下來就是小醜。可是，隨着年齡增長，我們漸漸變成紅心、方塊、梅花、黑桃。但這並不意味我們心中的小醜從此消失無蹤。我們不妨攤開一副撲剋牌，看看那些紅心圖案或方塊圖案底下，是不是隱藏着一個醜角呢?
這讓我想起古老的羊皮紙文件。歐洲人使用這種羊皮紙。往往會颳掉上面原有的文字，重新寫上其他東西。於是，當我們翻閱中古世紀的一本賬簿，瀏覽當時五穀和魚貨的價目時，揉揉眼睛，仔細一瞧，會赫然發現．那些羊皮紙原先記載的，竟是古羅馬的—出喜劇。同樣的，我們對世界的好奇，也深深隱藏在每個人心中。在那兒，我們找到一群群耍把戲、變魔術、打諢插科逗觀衆發笑的傢夥，也看到許多小精靈、侏儒、仙女和妖魔鬼怪，甚至還跟隨愛麗絲漫遊奇境，陪伴王後一塊喝下午茶。
各位讀者想必會註意到，《紙牌的秘密》書中的小醜是一個侏儒。他是永恆的小孩，永遠都不會完全長大，永遠都不會對人生失去好奇。就這一點來說，他稱得．上古往今來所有偉大哲學家的親屬。在古希臘，蘇格拉底就是他那個時代的一副撲剋牌中的醜角牌(少年時期，他沒事就跑到雅典的市集，隨便抓個人問問題！)蘇格拉底曾說：“雅典就像一匹沒精打采的馬兒。我將扮演‘牛虻’的角色，狠狠咬它一口，讓它飛騰跳躍起來”。(而我們的“牛虻”卻在幹什麽呢?)
我們每個人心中都活着一個小醜。這也是蘇格拉底的看法。身為哲學家，蘇格拉底其實並不具備特殊的“資歷”；他衹是——個助産士而已。接生婆幫助産婦生下孩子，蘇格拉底幫助人們“生下”人生的智慧。這種比喻當然是老調，但這個古老的接生婆象徵卻具有另一層涵意，值得我們深思：需要被接生出來的，實際上是我們每個人心中的那個孩子。
幾千年來，人類總是遭受一連串重大問題睏擾，而四處卻找不到現成的答案。結果，我們被迫面對兩種選擇：我們可以欺騙自己，假裝我們知道一切值得知道的事情，或者，我們索性閉上眼睛，拒絶面對人生根本問題，樂得逍遙度日，擺脫煩惱。今天的人類基本上分成這兩大族群。我們若不是趾高氣揚，自以為通曉人間事理，就是幹脆承認自己無知，不去過問自認為不懂的事情。這種現象就如同把一副撲剋牌分成兩堆，紅的放在——邊，黑的擺在另一邊。可是，每隔一陣子，那張醜角牌就會從牌堆中探出臉來。它既不是紅心和方塊，也不是梅花和黑桃。
在雅典城，蘇格拉底就是這麽一個醜角——既不桀騖，也不冷漠。他衹知道一件事：人世間有很多事情他並不懂。這個；念頭時時折磨他，於是他就去當個哲學家，成為一個永不放棄探尋人生真相、對人生不斷提出新問題的人。
在我看來，哲學的最大功能，是幫助我們找出心中隱藏的那個“醜角”，讓我們跟他建立更親密的情誼。哲學家必須掃除覆蓋在世界上的那層塵埃，讓我們以兒童的清澈眼光，重新觀看和感受這個世界。人生原本是一則美妙的童話故事，而長大後變得“世故”的我們，竟然剝去它那襲神秘的外衣，把它看成——個枯燥無味的 “現實”。但我們每個人都還有復活的希望，因為我們全都是醜角的後裔。我們內心深處，都有一個活蹦亂跳、睜着一隻大眼睛、對人生充滿好奇的孩子在活着。儘管有時候我們會覺得自己渺小瑣碎，但是，切莫忘了，我們每個人的肌膚下面都隱藏着一小塊黃金：曾經，在這個世界上，我們是一個潔淨無塵、心如明鏡的赤子……
當年，我們被帶進一則童話故事中——這個童話比我們在孩提時代聽過的童話都要美妙動聽——可是，沒多久，我們就把周圍的一切視為當然，不再好奇。如今我們甚至不會註意到，我們傢中那張新買的嬰兒床上，有一件神奇的事正在發生。就在那兒——嬰兒床的欄桿後面——世界正被創造。
而世界永遠不會衰老；衰老的是我們。衹要嬰兒不斷出生，衹要新人不斷來到世上，我們的世界就會永葆清新，新得就跟上帝創 世第七天時一模一樣。孩子現在剛剛進入這則偉大的童話故事；他 睜着清澈澄淨的眼睛，責備我們把這個世界看成“現實”，離它愈來愈遠。
“媽‘天使為什麽會有翅膀呢?……星星為什麽會眨眼睛呢? ……鳥兒為什麽會飛呢?……大象的鼻子為什麽那樣長呢?”
“哎呀，我怎麽曉得呀!乖，現在該閉上眼睛睡覺噦，否則的話，媽可就要生氣囉！”
譏來詭譎，孩子喪失對世界的這種積極的、充滿活力的感受時，正巧是他開始學說話的時候。所以，孩子們需要神話和童話。大人們也需要神話和童話，因為它能幫助我們緊緊抓住兒時的經驗，不讓它流失。
我覺得，十九或二十歲纔開始接觸哲學書籍，實在已經太遲了。最近歐洲流行嬰兒遊泳，因為父母們覺得，既然遊泳是人類與生俱來的本能，但這種本能必須加以呵護。對人生好奇並不是學來的，而是我們自己遺忘掉的本能。
我們總愛誇誇其談，大談“人生的奧秘”。要親身體驗這個奧秘，我們就得擺脫世故的矯情，讓自己再當一次孩子。想當孩子，就得往後退一步－－也許，退了一步後，我們會發現眼前豁然出現一個美妙的世界。就在那一刻，我們目擊世界的創造過程。朗朗晴空下，一個嶄新的世界蹦地冒了出來……
而居然有人說他們覺得人生挺無聊！
李永平譯
Like Sophie's World, The Solitaire Mystery has a philosophical content, but unlike Sophie's World, it does not explicitly mention philosophers and theories, thus, the reader of the book may be unaware that he or she is actually engaging in philosophy.
Plot
The book follows two seemingly separate stories:
Hans Thomas
A twelve year old boy, Hans Thomas, and his father are driving through Europe on a journey to locate and bring home the boy's estranged mother. Whilst on their journey, a strange little bearded man gives Hans Thomas a magnifying glass, saying mystically: "You'll need it!"
Not long afterwards, Hans Thomas and his father stop in a roadside cafe where Hans Thomas gets a giant sticky bun from a kind baker to eat on his journey. To Hans Thomas's great surprise, hidden inside the sticky bun is a tiny book, with writing so small it cannot be read with the naked eye.
Hans Thomas begins to read the tiny book using his new magnifying glass, and the story then alternates between Hans Thomas's journey, and the story in the sticky bun book.
The Sticky Bun Book
The sticky bun book tells the story of an old baker whose grandfather gave him a drink of a wonderful liquid he called Rainbow Fizz (Rainbow Soda in the American edition). It came from an island which the grandfather had been shipwrecked on as a young man. On the island lived an old sailor called Frode, and fifty-three other people; the fifty three other people did not have names though, they referred to themselves as the numbers on playing cards (52 cards plus a Joker)
The red suits were all women, except for the Kings and Jacks, whilst the black suits were all men, except for the Queens and Aces. The Ace of Hearts was particularly enchanting, and Frode had quite a crush on her, even though she was forever 'losing herself'. The cards (as he called them) were scatterbrained and childish, and talked in card-related riddles about "when the game ends" and "turning a person face up" etc.
Frode told the young sailor the miraculous story about how the other people had come to be on the island with him:
Frode himself was shipwrecked on the island many years earlier, and had lost virtually all of his possessions, except for a pack of playing cards. As he had no way off the island, he played solitaire a lot to pass the time. After a few months, he started talking to the cards, and even creating personalities for each of them in his head.
Time passed, and through overuse, the pictures on the cards faded and disappeared, but Frode continued to talk to them in his mind. Then suddenly one day, the Three of Diamonds walked by -- a flesh and blood person -- and said hello to Frode as if they were old friends! Frode thought he must be going mad, and as the remaining fifty-two cards surfaced, he became convinced he had gone senile. But since there was no way off the island, he decided he may as well sink himself into his delusion and enjoy the company.
When the new sailor was shipwrecked on the island, it came as a huge shock to Frode that he could see and interact with the card people as well! It wasn't a delusion! But then it seemed that Frode had simply 'dreamt' them into existence - how could this be so?
The crossing over of worlds
As the plot progresses, the reader sees that the 'two' separate stories of Hans Thomas's journey, and the events in the sticky bun book are beginning to overlap:
The cards in the sticky bun book take part in a game, where each says a sentence, and Frode tries to interpret its bizarre meaning. But sentences such as "the inner box unpacks the outer at the same time as the outer box unpacks the inner" and "destiny is a snake so hungry it devours itself" seem devoid of meaning for Frode.
However, the cards' predictions as told in the tiny book begin to reveal details about Hans Thomas's own plight to find his mother. It occurs to Hans Thomas that his mother bears a striking resemblance in her personality to the Ace of Hearts in that she 'loses herself' (disappears) for long periods.
Also, throughout Hans Thomas's journey, he has seen the same odd little bearded man following him about (the man who gave him the magnifying glass which proved so useful to read the sticky bun book). But whenever Hans Thomas approaches the little man, he seems to dash away and vanish.
The baffling thing for Hans Thomas is that he stopped for the cake merely by chance, and chose to eat a sticky bun by chance - how is it possible that a tiny book from a random bun is telling him things about his own life?
In the end, it turns out that the man who gave Hans Thomas the sticky bun book was his estranged grandfather, the baker and writer of the sticky bun book, and grandson to the shipwrecked sailor who had met Frode and his cards on the magic island. The grandfather works this out at the same time Hans Thomas deduces it too (the inner box unpacks the outer at the same time as the outer box unpacks the inner), yet this understanding is never realised, as the grandfather passes away before Hans Thomas returns to the small alpine village, having reunited with his mother in Athens.
Back in the sticky bun book, we discover that just as the cards had played their prophetic game where they predicted exactly what would happen between Hans Thomas and his family, the magic island begins to close in on itself, fifty-two years to the day after it had sprung into existence. It seems as if it were meant to happen that way (destiny is a snake so hungry it devours itself).
The poor card-people get eaten up inside the island, and as the island folds in on itself and disappears into nothingness, the young sailor (Baker Hans) escapes on a rowing boat which he had brought. Only one of the 'cards' managed to escape the island: the Joker.
Hans Thomas realises that it is the Joker who gave him the magnifying glass, and who has been following him about all this time. Just as Hans Thomas reads the last sentence of the sticky bun book, closes it and looks up, he sees the Joker slip away into the crowd, and vanish...
Philosophical themes
The book encompasses several philosophical themes; the obvious ones which are covered in the overall plot, but also little snippets here and there. Hans Thomas's father is a smoker but doesn't like to smoke inside his car, and so on their long journey across Europe, they are forever stopping for cigarette breaks, and the father is talking philosophically with his son. These bite-size chunks of philosophy are far easier to swallow than the weighty lectures in Sophie's World, but are nonetheless potent.
The nature of existence
The nature of existence is a theme which runs throughout, especially the miraculous nature of life itself. The book explores the question of whether it is possible to imagine something into existence. This theme is also found in Australian aboriginal myth, where elders claim that the world was dreamt into existence.
It seems unimaginable that we can make something happen just by wanting it to happen, yet the placebo effect has been well-documented in psychology, and many psychic healers and suchlike will claim that you need to have faith in order for something to work.
Religious Themes
The Christian concept of the creator living within his creation is explored. The seemingly perfect creation is soon destroyed by the Joker, during the "Joker Game" sequence, which is arguably an intended parallel with the Garden of Eden.
Destiny
The fact that the cards in the sticky bun book predicted the goings on between Hans Thomas's family decades later gives the book a strong theme of destiny: the idea that some things are going to happen no matter what - it is fate.
Fate as a concept also has many supporters; those who believe that some things (or the more stronger claim, that all things) have been pre-planned from long ago -- perhaps from the dawn of time. This is a main theme running through theology as well as more pseudo-scientific disciplines such as tarot reading and palm reading.
It certainly seems possible (though highly improbable) that the cards could have predicted the goings-on in Hans Thomas's young life, but the unlikelihood of it all only adds to the mystery and wonder of the story.
漢斯與父親從挪威到希臘，尋找離傢多年的母親，在途了漢斯遇上奇遇，得到一本衹有放大鏡纔可看到的小圓面包書，內容是一名水手遭遇船難，流落到一個奇異的小島，島上有５２個古怪的人物，原來是一人幻想中的一幅紙牌變成活生生的人物，故事虛幻迷離，故事中又含有另一個故事。然而漢斯卻要保守秘密，在途中偷看小圓面包書，不能告欣父親，最後發現這個二百年前的故事卻與漢斯有關．．．
作者喬斯坦．賈德保持一嚮的作風，除了一顆赤子之心，在故事中註入哲學的思想讓人墮入撲朔迷離的故事之餘，也不斷反思人生的問題，發人深省，值得提的是譯者李永平的功力深厚，把作者的筆觸充分展現於讀者的眼前。
本書已被譯為23種不同的語言，在世界各地發售，並榮獲『挪威文學評論協會奬』及『文化部奬』。如果以十粒星為滿分，這本書絶對值十一分！
紙牌的秘密-緻中文版讀者
每個人心裏都活着一個小醜——緻中文版讀者
最近這幾年來，每回去逛書店，我們這群對哲學有興趣的人總會感受到一種暖昧的樂趣。看到那——堆堆陳列在亮麗“新時代’，(Ncw Age)、“另類哲學”(A1ternatiVe Philosophy)下的新書，我們都會忍不住買上丁L本。另類哲學一本本展示在我們眼前，任由我們挑選，確實令人興奮，但我們同時也期盼這傢書店能供應更多“真正的”哲學書。我們在書架間兜來兜去，找了老半天，終於不得不面對一個事實：在偌大的一傢書店，要買一本真正的哲學書還真不容易呢。
這個現象馬上就要寫改變了。我們正面臨－－一個強勁的哲學復興運動。也許，我們對那些“另類玩意”已經感到厭足。這一類書，有些的確很有趣，但也攙雜着太多糟粕。
說穿了，另類哲學不啻是一種哲學式的春宮一—或許我們可以管它叫“速成哲學”。打開書本，一晃眼你就被引進一個哲學奇境，如同春宮電影或色情小說“瞬間” 把你吸入情欲世界。可是，大部分“另類哲學”跟真正的哲學壓根兒扯不上半點關係；同樣的，春宮電影呈現的並不是真誠的愛情。哲學和愛情都需要時間來培養、深化。追求智慧和愛情，是不能抄近路走捷徑的。
哲學興起於古希臘城邦的市集。今天，哲學同樣可以興起於小孩子就讀的幼稚園。這幾年來，我一直鼓吹將哲學帶回到最早的兩個根源——市場和學校。我願藉此機會，嚮中文版讀者說明，在《紙牌的秘密》一書中，我是如何將哲學帶回到人類的童年。我的另一本書《蘇菲的世界》，強調的則是哲學和市集之間的密切關係。這兩本書其實是姊妹篇，相輔相成。
《紙牌的秘密》這部小說的主角，是一個叫漢斯湯瑪士的小男孩。他跟隨父親，展開一趟漫長的穿越整個歐洲的旅程，進入“哲學的故鄉”。我想透過這樣一個故事，表達我對歐洲文化傳統和歷史的一些看法。我的最大企圖．是以年輕人覺得有趣的方式，嚮讀者們提出——連串有關生存的根本問題。
前往雅典的旅途中，在巧妙的機緣安排下，漢斯湯瑪寸：獲贈一本奇異的小書。那本書把他帶到公元1790年發生的——場海難。故事的主人翁是個名叫佛洛德的水手。船沉沒後，他漂流到加勒比海的—座荒島上，獨居五十二年；陪伴他度過漫長歲月、幫助他排遣寂寞的，就是隨身攜帶的—副撲剋牌。說也奇怪，後來這五十三張紙牌竟然變成了五十三個有血有肉、活蹦亂跳的侏儒。這群小矮人在島上建立一座村莊，環繞着佛洛德。除了—個侏儒外，他們都無法解釋自己究竟是誰、來自何方。唯—知道奧秘的侏儒，就是撲剋牌中的那張“醜角牌”。
在《紙牌的秘密》這本書中，小醜象徵“圈外人”——一他能夠看到別人看不到的人生真相。最重要的是，他能夠體認人生是場有趣的冒險。所以，在島-上那些日子。他不斷嚮同胞們提出有關人生的新問題。
在人生的紙牌遊戲中，我們每個人一生下來就是小醜。可是，隨着年齡增長，我們漸漸變成紅心、方塊、梅花、黑桃。但這並不意味我們心中的小醜從此消失無蹤。我們不妨攤開一副撲剋牌，看看那些紅心圖案或方塊圖案底下，是不是隱藏着一個醜角呢?
這讓我想起古老的羊皮紙文件。歐洲人使用這種羊皮紙。往往會颳掉上面原有的文字，重新寫上其他東西。於是，當我們翻閱中古世紀的一本賬簿，瀏覽當時五穀和魚貨的價目時，揉揉眼睛，仔細一瞧，會赫然發現．那些羊皮紙原先記載的，竟是古羅馬的—出喜劇。同樣的，我們對世界的好奇，也深深隱藏在每個人心中。在那兒，我們找到一群群耍把戲、變魔術、打諢插科逗觀衆發笑的傢夥，也看到許多小精靈、侏儒、仙女和妖魔鬼怪，甚至還跟隨愛麗絲漫遊奇境，陪伴王後一塊喝下午茶。
各位讀者想必會註意到，《紙牌的秘密》書中的小醜是一個侏儒。他是永恆的小孩，永遠都不會完全長大，永遠都不會對人生失去好奇。就這一點來說，他稱得．上古往今來所有偉大哲學家的親屬。在古希臘，蘇格拉底就是他那個時代的一副撲剋牌中的醜角牌(少年時期，他沒事就跑到雅典的市集，隨便抓個人問問題！)蘇格拉底曾說：“雅典就像一匹沒精打采的馬兒。我將扮演‘牛虻’的角色，狠狠咬它一口，讓它飛騰跳躍起來”。(而我們的“牛虻”卻在幹什麽呢?)
我們每個人心中都活着一個小醜。這也是蘇格拉底的看法。身為哲學家，蘇格拉底其實並不具備特殊的“資歷”；他衹是——個助産士而已。接生婆幫助産婦生下孩子，蘇格拉底幫助人們“生下”人生的智慧。這種比喻當然是老調，但這個古老的接生婆象徵卻具有另一層涵意，值得我們深思：需要被接生出來的，實際上是我們每個人心中的那個孩子。
幾千年來，人類總是遭受一連串重大問題睏擾，而四處卻找不到現成的答案。結果，我們被迫面對兩種選擇：我們可以欺騙自己，假裝我們知道一切值得知道的事情，或者，我們索性閉上眼睛，拒絶面對人生根本問題，樂得逍遙度日，擺脫煩惱。今天的人類基本上分成這兩大族群。我們若不是趾高氣揚，自以為通曉人間事理，就是幹脆承認自己無知，不去過問自認為不懂的事情。這種現象就如同把一副撲剋牌分成兩堆，紅的放在——邊，黑的擺在另一邊。可是，每隔一陣子，那張醜角牌就會從牌堆中探出臉來。它既不是紅心和方塊，也不是梅花和黑桃。
在雅典城，蘇格拉底就是這麽一個醜角——既不桀騖，也不冷漠。他衹知道一件事：人世間有很多事情他並不懂。這個；念頭時時折磨他，於是他就去當個哲學家，成為一個永不放棄探尋人生真相、對人生不斷提出新問題的人。
在我看來，哲學的最大功能，是幫助我們找出心中隱藏的那個“醜角”，讓我們跟他建立更親密的情誼。哲學家必須掃除覆蓋在世界上的那層塵埃，讓我們以兒童的清澈眼光，重新觀看和感受這個世界。人生原本是一則美妙的童話故事，而長大後變得“世故”的我們，竟然剝去它那襲神秘的外衣，把它看成——個枯燥無味的 “現實”。但我們每個人都還有復活的希望，因為我們全都是醜角的後裔。我們內心深處，都有一個活蹦亂跳、睜着一隻大眼睛、對人生充滿好奇的孩子在活着。儘管有時候我們會覺得自己渺小瑣碎，但是，切莫忘了，我們每個人的肌膚下面都隱藏着一小塊黃金：曾經，在這個世界上，我們是一個潔淨無塵、心如明鏡的赤子……
當年，我們被帶進一則童話故事中——這個童話比我們在孩提時代聽過的童話都要美妙動聽——可是，沒多久，我們就把周圍的一切視為當然，不再好奇。如今我們甚至不會註意到，我們傢中那張新買的嬰兒床上，有一件神奇的事正在發生。就在那兒——嬰兒床的欄桿後面——世界正被創造。
而世界永遠不會衰老；衰老的是我們。衹要嬰兒不斷出生，衹要新人不斷來到世上，我們的世界就會永葆清新，新得就跟上帝創 世第七天時一模一樣。孩子現在剛剛進入這則偉大的童話故事；他 睜着清澈澄淨的眼睛，責備我們把這個世界看成“現實”，離它愈來愈遠。
“媽‘天使為什麽會有翅膀呢?……星星為什麽會眨眼睛呢? ……鳥兒為什麽會飛呢?……大象的鼻子為什麽那樣長呢?”
“哎呀，我怎麽曉得呀!乖，現在該閉上眼睛睡覺噦，否則的話，媽可就要生氣囉！”
譏來詭譎，孩子喪失對世界的這種積極的、充滿活力的感受時，正巧是他開始學說話的時候。所以，孩子們需要神話和童話。大人們也需要神話和童話，因為它能幫助我們緊緊抓住兒時的經驗，不讓它流失。
我覺得，十九或二十歲纔開始接觸哲學書籍，實在已經太遲了。最近歐洲流行嬰兒遊泳，因為父母們覺得，既然遊泳是人類與生俱來的本能，但這種本能必須加以呵護。對人生好奇並不是學來的，而是我們自己遺忘掉的本能。
我們總愛誇誇其談，大談“人生的奧秘”。要親身體驗這個奧秘，我們就得擺脫世故的矯情，讓自己再當一次孩子。想當孩子，就得往後退一步－－也許，退了一步後，我們會發現眼前豁然出現一個美妙的世界。就在那一刻，我們目擊世界的創造過程。朗朗晴空下，一個嶄新的世界蹦地冒了出來……
而居然有人說他們覺得人生挺無聊！
李永平譯
Like Sophie's World, The Solitaire Mystery has a philosophical content, but unlike Sophie's World, it does not explicitly mention philosophers and theories, thus, the reader of the book may be unaware that he or she is actually engaging in philosophy.
Plot
The book follows two seemingly separate stories:
Hans Thomas
A twelve year old boy, Hans Thomas, and his father are driving through Europe on a journey to locate and bring home the boy's estranged mother. Whilst on their journey, a strange little bearded man gives Hans Thomas a magnifying glass, saying mystically: "You'll need it!"
Not long afterwards, Hans Thomas and his father stop in a roadside cafe where Hans Thomas gets a giant sticky bun from a kind baker to eat on his journey. To Hans Thomas's great surprise, hidden inside the sticky bun is a tiny book, with writing so small it cannot be read with the naked eye.
Hans Thomas begins to read the tiny book using his new magnifying glass, and the story then alternates between Hans Thomas's journey, and the story in the sticky bun book.
The Sticky Bun Book
The sticky bun book tells the story of an old baker whose grandfather gave him a drink of a wonderful liquid he called Rainbow Fizz (Rainbow Soda in the American edition). It came from an island which the grandfather had been shipwrecked on as a young man. On the island lived an old sailor called Frode, and fifty-three other people; the fifty three other people did not have names though, they referred to themselves as the numbers on playing cards (52 cards plus a Joker)
The red suits were all women, except for the Kings and Jacks, whilst the black suits were all men, except for the Queens and Aces. The Ace of Hearts was particularly enchanting, and Frode had quite a crush on her, even though she was forever 'losing herself'. The cards (as he called them) were scatterbrained and childish, and talked in card-related riddles about "when the game ends" and "turning a person face up" etc.
Frode told the young sailor the miraculous story about how the other people had come to be on the island with him:
Frode himself was shipwrecked on the island many years earlier, and had lost virtually all of his possessions, except for a pack of playing cards. As he had no way off the island, he played solitaire a lot to pass the time. After a few months, he started talking to the cards, and even creating personalities for each of them in his head.
Time passed, and through overuse, the pictures on the cards faded and disappeared, but Frode continued to talk to them in his mind. Then suddenly one day, the Three of Diamonds walked by -- a flesh and blood person -- and said hello to Frode as if they were old friends! Frode thought he must be going mad, and as the remaining fifty-two cards surfaced, he became convinced he had gone senile. But since there was no way off the island, he decided he may as well sink himself into his delusion and enjoy the company.
When the new sailor was shipwrecked on the island, it came as a huge shock to Frode that he could see and interact with the card people as well! It wasn't a delusion! But then it seemed that Frode had simply 'dreamt' them into existence - how could this be so?
The crossing over of worlds
As the plot progresses, the reader sees that the 'two' separate stories of Hans Thomas's journey, and the events in the sticky bun book are beginning to overlap:
The cards in the sticky bun book take part in a game, where each says a sentence, and Frode tries to interpret its bizarre meaning. But sentences such as "the inner box unpacks the outer at the same time as the outer box unpacks the inner" and "destiny is a snake so hungry it devours itself" seem devoid of meaning for Frode.
However, the cards' predictions as told in the tiny book begin to reveal details about Hans Thomas's own plight to find his mother. It occurs to Hans Thomas that his mother bears a striking resemblance in her personality to the Ace of Hearts in that she 'loses herself' (disappears) for long periods.
Also, throughout Hans Thomas's journey, he has seen the same odd little bearded man following him about (the man who gave him the magnifying glass which proved so useful to read the sticky bun book). But whenever Hans Thomas approaches the little man, he seems to dash away and vanish.
The baffling thing for Hans Thomas is that he stopped for the cake merely by chance, and chose to eat a sticky bun by chance - how is it possible that a tiny book from a random bun is telling him things about his own life?
In the end, it turns out that the man who gave Hans Thomas the sticky bun book was his estranged grandfather, the baker and writer of the sticky bun book, and grandson to the shipwrecked sailor who had met Frode and his cards on the magic island. The grandfather works this out at the same time Hans Thomas deduces it too (the inner box unpacks the outer at the same time as the outer box unpacks the inner), yet this understanding is never realised, as the grandfather passes away before Hans Thomas returns to the small alpine village, having reunited with his mother in Athens.
Back in the sticky bun book, we discover that just as the cards had played their prophetic game where they predicted exactly what would happen between Hans Thomas and his family, the magic island begins to close in on itself, fifty-two years to the day after it had sprung into existence. It seems as if it were meant to happen that way (destiny is a snake so hungry it devours itself).
The poor card-people get eaten up inside the island, and as the island folds in on itself and disappears into nothingness, the young sailor (Baker Hans) escapes on a rowing boat which he had brought. Only one of the 'cards' managed to escape the island: the Joker.
Hans Thomas realises that it is the Joker who gave him the magnifying glass, and who has been following him about all this time. Just as Hans Thomas reads the last sentence of the sticky bun book, closes it and looks up, he sees the Joker slip away into the crowd, and vanish...
Philosophical themes
The book encompasses several philosophical themes; the obvious ones which are covered in the overall plot, but also little snippets here and there. Hans Thomas's father is a smoker but doesn't like to smoke inside his car, and so on their long journey across Europe, they are forever stopping for cigarette breaks, and the father is talking philosophically with his son. These bite-size chunks of philosophy are far easier to swallow than the weighty lectures in Sophie's World, but are nonetheless potent.
The nature of existence
The nature of existence is a theme which runs throughout, especially the miraculous nature of life itself. The book explores the question of whether it is possible to imagine something into existence. This theme is also found in Australian aboriginal myth, where elders claim that the world was dreamt into existence.
It seems unimaginable that we can make something happen just by wanting it to happen, yet the placebo effect has been well-documented in psychology, and many psychic healers and suchlike will claim that you need to have faith in order for something to work.
Religious Themes
The Christian concept of the creator living within his creation is explored. The seemingly perfect creation is soon destroyed by the Joker, during the "Joker Game" sequence, which is arguably an intended parallel with the Garden of Eden.
Destiny
The fact that the cards in the sticky bun book predicted the goings on between Hans Thomas's family decades later gives the book a strong theme of destiny: the idea that some things are going to happen no matter what - it is fate.
Fate as a concept also has many supporters; those who believe that some things (or the more stronger claim, that all things) have been pre-planned from long ago -- perhaps from the dawn of time. This is a main theme running through theology as well as more pseudo-scientific disciplines such as tarot reading and palm reading.
It certainly seems possible (though highly improbable) that the cards could have predicted the goings-on in Hans Thomas's young life, but the unlikelihood of it all only adds to the mystery and wonder of the story.
這是一本關於哲學史的小說，２０世紀百部經典著作之一 ，１９９４年獲"德國青少年文學奬"與"最優秀作品奬" 。
該書自１９９１年出版發行之後，長期雄踞各國暢銷書排行榜第一名，世界上已有３５個國傢購買了該書的版權。截止到１９９５年５月，該書德文版的銷售已達１２０萬册的天文數字。一部《蘇菲的世界》就是一部深入淺出的人類哲學史。它不僅能喚醒人們內心深處對生命的敬仰與贊嘆、對人生意義的關心與好奇，而且也為每一個人的成長——使生命從混沌走嚮智慧、由睏惑而進入覺悟之境，挂起了一盞盞明亮的桅燈……
《蘇菲的世界》以小說 蘇菲的世界(電影) 的形式，通過一名哲學導師嚮一個叫蘇菲的女孩傳授哲學知識的經過，揭示了西方哲學史發展的歷程。由前蘇格拉底時代到薩特，以及亞裏士多德、笛卡兒、黑格爾等人的思想都通過作者生動的筆觸躍然紙上，並配以當時的歷史背景加以解釋，引人入勝。評論傢認為，對於那些從未讀過哲學課程的人而言，此書是最為合適的入門書，而對於那些以往讀過一些哲學而已忘得一幹二淨的人士，也可起到溫故知新的作用。
《蘇菲的世界》[書籍]-概述
該書自1991年出版發行之後，長期雄踞各國暢銷書排行榜第一名，世界上已有35個國傢購買了該書的版權。截止到1995年5月，該書德文版的銷售已達120萬册的天文數字。一部《蘇菲的世界》就是一部深入淺出的人類哲學史。它不僅能喚醒人們內心深處對生命的敬仰與贊嘆、對人生意義的關心與好奇，而且也為每一個人的成長--使生命從混沌走嚮智慧、由睏惑而進入覺悟之境，挂起了一盞盞明亮的桅燈……
《蘇菲的世界》[書籍]-故事梗概
14歲的少女蘇菲某天放學回傢，收到了神秘的一封信——“你是誰？世界從哪裏來？”從這一天開始，蘇菲不斷接到一些極不尋常的來信，世界像謎團一般在她眼底展開。在一位神秘導師的指導引下，蘇菲開始思索從古希臘到康德，從祁剋果到佛洛伊德等各位大師所思考的根本問題。她運用少女天生的悟性與後天知識，企圖解開這些謎團。然而，事實真相遠比她所想的更怪異、更離奇……
《蘇菲的世界》，即是智慧的世界，夢的世界。它將會喚醒每個人內心深處對生命的贊嘆與對人生終極意義的關懷和好奇。
《蘇菲的世界》[書籍]-摘要
你是誰？
她怎麽會知道？不用說，她的名字叫蘇菲，但那個叫做蘇菲的人又是誰呢？她還沒想出來。
如果她取了另外一個名字呢？比如說，如果她叫做安妮的話，她會不會變成別人？
這使她想起爸爸原本要將她取名為莉莉。她試着想象自己與別人握手，並且介紹自己名叫莉莉的情景，但覺得好像很不對勁，像是別人在自我介紹一般。
她跳起來，走進浴室，手裏拿着那封奇怪的信。她站在鏡子前面，凝視着自己的眼睛。“我的名字叫莉莉。”她說。
鏡中的女孩卻連眼睛也不眨一下。無論蘇菲做什麽，她都依樣畫葫蘆。蘇菲飛快地做了一個動作，想使鏡中的影像追趕不及，但那個女孩卻和她一般的敏捷。
“你是誰？”蘇菲問。
鏡中的人也不回答。有一剎那，她覺得迷惑，弄不清楚剛纔問問題的到底是她，還是鏡中的影像。
蘇菲用食指點着鏡中的鼻子，說：“你是我。”
對方依舊沒有反應。於是她將句子顛倒過來，說：“我是你。”
《蘇菲的世界》[書籍]-書評
賈德這本關於哲學史的小說可謂是空前的，他再次用事實證明了哲學並不是脫離現實的學院人士在象牙塔裏所寫的東西。--《德意志星期日匯報》
該書是一個將學術作品通俗化的傑出範例，未曾修習哲學概論的人，可以把它作為一本最佳的入門讀物，而學習過此門課程但已忘卻大半的人，本書則是溫故而知新的得力之作。 --美國《新聞周刊》
挪威作傢喬斯坦·賈德不僅文筆卓爾不群，同時有多年擔任哲學教師的經歷，《蘇菲的世界》一書有助於使讀者以閱讀偵探小說般的心情遊覽從柏拉圖以前一直到２０世紀的世界哲學史，而絲毫不産生任何枯燥厭煩的感覺。 --著名作傢與評論傢馬德蘭·藍格爾
哲學不是萬靈丹，但是從來不去留意“愛好智慧”的重要與前人的心得，那麽註定會陷於心靈封閉與終結。這或許是本書廣受歡迎的原因吧為了使人從睏惑到覺悟，本書提供了一盞明燈。--哲學教授傅佩茱
《蘇菲的世界》可以當做哲學啓蒙書來閱讀。它的小說部分，蘇菲的主體自覺過程則頗像偵探故事加上現代版的————《愛麗絲夢遊仙境》，哲學加偵探，加幻想，再加上宇宙觀，它讓人更加心胸開闊，這不正是哲學“愛智”最古典的要義嗎知名作傢南方朔
這本書的流行有其重要性，我們可以從好幾方面來看。全書雖非學術性著作，但它是一本捍衛哲學的書，正因為其大衆化，它也就代表了“大多數人的看法”。這本書不是在探討哲學上的某一特別思潮或歷史，而是嘗試對每一派別做概論式的介紹，並說明它在今日的地位。可以說是一本集“學術界一般看法的摘要錄”。因此，這本書表達了當今知識分子的立場。
假如《蘇菲的世界》代表着主流知識分子的哲學觀點，它所表達的也極引人註目。這本書對真實的哲學給予極崇高的評價：批判的、理性的和公正的評論；去除偏見、迷信和慣例；不做倉促和輕率的判斷，一意追求真理、知識、美善和道德。
Mostly consisting of dialogues between Sophie Amundsen and a mysterious man named Alberto Knox, interwoven with an increasingly bizarre and mysterious plot, Sophie's World acts as both a novel and a basic guide to philosophy.
Plot summary
Sophie Amundsen is fourteen years old when the book begins. She begins a strange correspondence course in philosophy. Every day, a letter comes to her mailbox that contains a few questions and then later in the day a package comes with some typed pages describing the ideas of a philosopher who dealt with the issues raised by the questions. Although at first she does not know, later on Sophie learns that Alberto Knox is the name of the philosopher who is teaching her. He sends her packages via his dog Hermes. Alberto first tells Sophie that philosophy is extremely relevant to life and that if we do not question and ponder our very existence we are not really living. Then he proceeds to go through the history of western philosophy. Alberto teaches Sophie about the ancient myths that people had in the days before they tried to come up with natural explanations for the processes in the world. Then she learns about the natural philosophers who were concerned with change. Next Alberto describes Democritus and the theory of indivisible atoms underlying all of nature as well as the concept of fate.
At the same time as she takes the philosophy course, Sophie receives a strange postcard sent to Hilde Møller Knag, care of Sophie. The postcard is from Hilde's father and wishes Hilde happy birthday. Sophie is confused, and more so when she finds a scarf with Hilde's name on it. She does not know what is happening but she is sure that Hilde and the philosophy course must somehow be connected. She learns about Socrates, who was wise enough to know that he knew nothing. Then Alberto sends her a video that shows him in present day Athens and somehow he seems to go back in time to ancient Athens. She learns about Plato and his world of ideas and then about Aristotle, who critiqued Plato, classified much of the natural world, and founded logic and our theory of concepts.
Then, as Sophie's education continues, the Hilde situation begins to get more complicated. She finds many more postcards to Hilde, and some of them are even dated on June 15, the day Sophie will turn 15. The problem is that June 15 is still over a month away. She discovers some of this with her best friend Joanna, and one of the postcards tells Hilde that one day she will meet Sophie and also mentions Joanna. Strange things are happening that the girls cannot figure out. Sophie's relationship with her mother becomes somewhat strained as she tries both to cover up the correspondence with Alberto and to practice her philosophical thinking on her mom. Meanwhile, Alberto teaches Sophie about Jesus and the meeting of Indo-European and Semitic culture. She learns about St. Augustine, St. Aquinas, and the christianization of Greek philosophy that occurred in the Middle Ages. By this time, Sophie has met Alberto and he begins hinting that the philosophy is about to get extremely relevant to the strange things that are happening to her.
Sophie learns about the focus on humanity in the Renaissance and the extremes of the Baroque and then Alberto focuses on some key philosophers. Urgently, he teaches her about Descartes, who doubted, and by doing so knew at least that he could doubt. They move on to Spinoza as it becomes clear that Hilde's father has some awesome power over them. Then Sophie learns about the empiricists. Locke believed in natural rights and that everything we know is gained from experience. Hume, an important influence on Kant, showed that our actions are guided by feelings and warned against making laws based upon our experiences. But Berkeley is most important to Sophie because he suggested that perhaps our entire lives were inside the mind of God. And Alberto says that their lives are inside the mind of Albert Knag, Hilde's father.
At this point the story switches to Hilde's point of view. On June 15, the day she turns fifteen, Hilde receives a birthday gift from her father entitled Sophie's World. She begins to read and is enthralled. We follow the rest of Sophie's story from Hilde's perspective. Hilde becomes certain that Sophie exists, that she is not just a character in a book. Alberto has a plan to escape Albert Knag's mind, and they must finish the philosophy course before that can happen. He teaches Sophie about the Enlightenment and its humane values and about Kant and his unification of empiricist and rationalist thought. Things in Sophie's life have become completely insane but she and Alberto know they must figure out a way to do something. It will have to occur on the night of June 15, when Hilde's father returns home. They learn about the world spirit of Romanticism, Hegel's dialectical view of history, and Kierkegaard's belief that the individual's existence is primary. Meanwhile, Hilde plans a surprise for her father on his return home. They rush through Marx, Darwin, Freud, and Sartre, desperate to come up with a plan to escape even though everything they do is known by Hilde's father. Then at the end of Sophie's World, the book that Hilde is reading, while at a party for Sophie on June 15, Alberto and Sophie disappear. Hilde's father comes home and they talk about the book, and Hilde is sure that Sophie exists somewhere. Meanwhile, Sophie and Alberto have a new existence as spirit. They have escaped from Albert Knag's mind but they are invisible to other people and can walk right through them. Sophie wants to try to interfere in the world of Hilde and her father, and at the end of the book she is learning how to do so.
該書自１９９１年出版發行之後，長期雄踞各國暢銷書排行榜第一名，世界上已有３５個國傢購買了該書的版權。截止到１９９５年５月，該書德文版的銷售已達１２０萬册的天文數字。一部《蘇菲的世界》就是一部深入淺出的人類哲學史。它不僅能喚醒人們內心深處對生命的敬仰與贊嘆、對人生意義的關心與好奇，而且也為每一個人的成長——使生命從混沌走嚮智慧、由睏惑而進入覺悟之境，挂起了一盞盞明亮的桅燈……
《蘇菲的世界》以小說 蘇菲的世界(電影) 的形式，通過一名哲學導師嚮一個叫蘇菲的女孩傳授哲學知識的經過，揭示了西方哲學史發展的歷程。由前蘇格拉底時代到薩特，以及亞裏士多德、笛卡兒、黑格爾等人的思想都通過作者生動的筆觸躍然紙上，並配以當時的歷史背景加以解釋，引人入勝。評論傢認為，對於那些從未讀過哲學課程的人而言，此書是最為合適的入門書，而對於那些以往讀過一些哲學而已忘得一幹二淨的人士，也可起到溫故知新的作用。
《蘇菲的世界》[書籍]-概述
該書自1991年出版發行之後，長期雄踞各國暢銷書排行榜第一名，世界上已有35個國傢購買了該書的版權。截止到1995年5月，該書德文版的銷售已達120萬册的天文數字。一部《蘇菲的世界》就是一部深入淺出的人類哲學史。它不僅能喚醒人們內心深處對生命的敬仰與贊嘆、對人生意義的關心與好奇，而且也為每一個人的成長--使生命從混沌走嚮智慧、由睏惑而進入覺悟之境，挂起了一盞盞明亮的桅燈……
《蘇菲的世界》[書籍]-故事梗概
14歲的少女蘇菲某天放學回傢，收到了神秘的一封信——“你是誰？世界從哪裏來？”從這一天開始，蘇菲不斷接到一些極不尋常的來信，世界像謎團一般在她眼底展開。在一位神秘導師的指導引下，蘇菲開始思索從古希臘到康德，從祁剋果到佛洛伊德等各位大師所思考的根本問題。她運用少女天生的悟性與後天知識，企圖解開這些謎團。然而，事實真相遠比她所想的更怪異、更離奇……
《蘇菲的世界》，即是智慧的世界，夢的世界。它將會喚醒每個人內心深處對生命的贊嘆與對人生終極意義的關懷和好奇。
《蘇菲的世界》[書籍]-摘要
你是誰？
她怎麽會知道？不用說，她的名字叫蘇菲，但那個叫做蘇菲的人又是誰呢？她還沒想出來。
如果她取了另外一個名字呢？比如說，如果她叫做安妮的話，她會不會變成別人？
這使她想起爸爸原本要將她取名為莉莉。她試着想象自己與別人握手，並且介紹自己名叫莉莉的情景，但覺得好像很不對勁，像是別人在自我介紹一般。
她跳起來，走進浴室，手裏拿着那封奇怪的信。她站在鏡子前面，凝視着自己的眼睛。“我的名字叫莉莉。”她說。
鏡中的女孩卻連眼睛也不眨一下。無論蘇菲做什麽，她都依樣畫葫蘆。蘇菲飛快地做了一個動作，想使鏡中的影像追趕不及，但那個女孩卻和她一般的敏捷。
“你是誰？”蘇菲問。
鏡中的人也不回答。有一剎那，她覺得迷惑，弄不清楚剛纔問問題的到底是她，還是鏡中的影像。
蘇菲用食指點着鏡中的鼻子，說：“你是我。”
對方依舊沒有反應。於是她將句子顛倒過來，說：“我是你。”
《蘇菲的世界》[書籍]-書評
賈德這本關於哲學史的小說可謂是空前的，他再次用事實證明了哲學並不是脫離現實的學院人士在象牙塔裏所寫的東西。--《德意志星期日匯報》
該書是一個將學術作品通俗化的傑出範例，未曾修習哲學概論的人，可以把它作為一本最佳的入門讀物，而學習過此門課程但已忘卻大半的人，本書則是溫故而知新的得力之作。 --美國《新聞周刊》
挪威作傢喬斯坦·賈德不僅文筆卓爾不群，同時有多年擔任哲學教師的經歷，《蘇菲的世界》一書有助於使讀者以閱讀偵探小說般的心情遊覽從柏拉圖以前一直到２０世紀的世界哲學史，而絲毫不産生任何枯燥厭煩的感覺。 --著名作傢與評論傢馬德蘭·藍格爾
哲學不是萬靈丹，但是從來不去留意“愛好智慧”的重要與前人的心得，那麽註定會陷於心靈封閉與終結。這或許是本書廣受歡迎的原因吧為了使人從睏惑到覺悟，本書提供了一盞明燈。--哲學教授傅佩茱
《蘇菲的世界》可以當做哲學啓蒙書來閱讀。它的小說部分，蘇菲的主體自覺過程則頗像偵探故事加上現代版的————《愛麗絲夢遊仙境》，哲學加偵探，加幻想，再加上宇宙觀，它讓人更加心胸開闊，這不正是哲學“愛智”最古典的要義嗎知名作傢南方朔
這本書的流行有其重要性，我們可以從好幾方面來看。全書雖非學術性著作，但它是一本捍衛哲學的書，正因為其大衆化，它也就代表了“大多數人的看法”。這本書不是在探討哲學上的某一特別思潮或歷史，而是嘗試對每一派別做概論式的介紹，並說明它在今日的地位。可以說是一本集“學術界一般看法的摘要錄”。因此，這本書表達了當今知識分子的立場。
假如《蘇菲的世界》代表着主流知識分子的哲學觀點，它所表達的也極引人註目。這本書對真實的哲學給予極崇高的評價：批判的、理性的和公正的評論；去除偏見、迷信和慣例；不做倉促和輕率的判斷，一意追求真理、知識、美善和道德。
Mostly consisting of dialogues between Sophie Amundsen and a mysterious man named Alberto Knox, interwoven with an increasingly bizarre and mysterious plot, Sophie's World acts as both a novel and a basic guide to philosophy.
Plot summary
Sophie Amundsen is fourteen years old when the book begins. She begins a strange correspondence course in philosophy. Every day, a letter comes to her mailbox that contains a few questions and then later in the day a package comes with some typed pages describing the ideas of a philosopher who dealt with the issues raised by the questions. Although at first she does not know, later on Sophie learns that Alberto Knox is the name of the philosopher who is teaching her. He sends her packages via his dog Hermes. Alberto first tells Sophie that philosophy is extremely relevant to life and that if we do not question and ponder our very existence we are not really living. Then he proceeds to go through the history of western philosophy. Alberto teaches Sophie about the ancient myths that people had in the days before they tried to come up with natural explanations for the processes in the world. Then she learns about the natural philosophers who were concerned with change. Next Alberto describes Democritus and the theory of indivisible atoms underlying all of nature as well as the concept of fate.
At the same time as she takes the philosophy course, Sophie receives a strange postcard sent to Hilde Møller Knag, care of Sophie. The postcard is from Hilde's father and wishes Hilde happy birthday. Sophie is confused, and more so when she finds a scarf with Hilde's name on it. She does not know what is happening but she is sure that Hilde and the philosophy course must somehow be connected. She learns about Socrates, who was wise enough to know that he knew nothing. Then Alberto sends her a video that shows him in present day Athens and somehow he seems to go back in time to ancient Athens. She learns about Plato and his world of ideas and then about Aristotle, who critiqued Plato, classified much of the natural world, and founded logic and our theory of concepts.
Then, as Sophie's education continues, the Hilde situation begins to get more complicated. She finds many more postcards to Hilde, and some of them are even dated on June 15, the day Sophie will turn 15. The problem is that June 15 is still over a month away. She discovers some of this with her best friend Joanna, and one of the postcards tells Hilde that one day she will meet Sophie and also mentions Joanna. Strange things are happening that the girls cannot figure out. Sophie's relationship with her mother becomes somewhat strained as she tries both to cover up the correspondence with Alberto and to practice her philosophical thinking on her mom. Meanwhile, Alberto teaches Sophie about Jesus and the meeting of Indo-European and Semitic culture. She learns about St. Augustine, St. Aquinas, and the christianization of Greek philosophy that occurred in the Middle Ages. By this time, Sophie has met Alberto and he begins hinting that the philosophy is about to get extremely relevant to the strange things that are happening to her.
Sophie learns about the focus on humanity in the Renaissance and the extremes of the Baroque and then Alberto focuses on some key philosophers. Urgently, he teaches her about Descartes, who doubted, and by doing so knew at least that he could doubt. They move on to Spinoza as it becomes clear that Hilde's father has some awesome power over them. Then Sophie learns about the empiricists. Locke believed in natural rights and that everything we know is gained from experience. Hume, an important influence on Kant, showed that our actions are guided by feelings and warned against making laws based upon our experiences. But Berkeley is most important to Sophie because he suggested that perhaps our entire lives were inside the mind of God. And Alberto says that their lives are inside the mind of Albert Knag, Hilde's father.
At this point the story switches to Hilde's point of view. On June 15, the day she turns fifteen, Hilde receives a birthday gift from her father entitled Sophie's World. She begins to read and is enthralled. We follow the rest of Sophie's story from Hilde's perspective. Hilde becomes certain that Sophie exists, that she is not just a character in a book. Alberto has a plan to escape Albert Knag's mind, and they must finish the philosophy course before that can happen. He teaches Sophie about the Enlightenment and its humane values and about Kant and his unification of empiricist and rationalist thought. Things in Sophie's life have become completely insane but she and Alberto know they must figure out a way to do something. It will have to occur on the night of June 15, when Hilde's father returns home. They learn about the world spirit of Romanticism, Hegel's dialectical view of history, and Kierkegaard's belief that the individual's existence is primary. Meanwhile, Hilde plans a surprise for her father on his return home. They rush through Marx, Darwin, Freud, and Sartre, desperate to come up with a plan to escape even though everything they do is known by Hilde's father. Then at the end of Sophie's World, the book that Hilde is reading, while at a party for Sophie on June 15, Alberto and Sophie disappear. Hilde's father comes home and they talk about the book, and Hilde is sure that Sophie exists somewhere. Meanwhile, Sophie and Alberto have a new existence as spirit. They have escaped from Albert Knag's mind but they are invisible to other people and can walk right through them. Sophie wants to try to interfere in the world of Hilde and her father, and at the end of the book she is learning how to do so.
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