1996《我从外星来》（又名《喂，有人在吗？》）（Hello? Is Anybody There?）
一艘太空船穿越广袤的银河，向着一颗蓝蓝绿绿的星球一地球前进。来自艾尔乔星的男孩米加打开舱门，对着夜空大喊：“喂，有人在吗？”《喂，有人在吗？》是乔斯坦.贾德继《苏菲的世界》、〈纸牌的秘密〉之后推出的最新力作。故事场景从西方哲学的原乡欧洲大陆延展至无垠的外达空，叙述小男孩乔金和外星人米加的第三类接触奇遇。〈苏菲的世界〉提出了“你是谁？”、“世界从哪里来？”等问题：〈喂，有人在吗？〉问的是“我们是谁？”、“我们从哪里来”？ 可以说是一本“小苏菲”。作者透过深入浅出的童话形式，让奇遇之谜和哲学主题不断地碰撞，穿透梦境和现实，极具梦幻写实趣味，也展现出一个至为恢宏的地球观和宇宙观。
一艘太空船穿越广袤的银河，向着一颗蓝蓝绿绿的星球一地球前进。来自艾尔乔星的男孩米加打开舱门，对着夜空大喊：“喂，有人在吗？”《喂，有人在吗？》是乔斯坦.贾德继《苏菲的世界》、〈纸牌的秘密〉之后推出的最新力作。故事场景从西方哲学的原乡欧洲大陆延展至无垠的外达空，叙述小男孩乔金和外星人米加的第三类接触奇遇。〈苏菲的世界〉提出了“你是谁？”、“世界从哪里来？”等问题：〈喂，有人在吗？〉问的是“我们是谁？”、“我们从哪里来”？ 可以说是一本“小苏菲”。作者透过深入浅出的童话形式，让奇遇之谜和哲学主题不断地碰撞，穿透梦境和现实，极具梦幻写实趣味，也展现出一个至为恢宏的地球观和宇宙观。
如果这个世界是一场魔术表演，它背後一定有个伟大的魔术师，我希望，有一天，我能把他揪出来，但是，如果魔术师从不出现，你又怎能拆他的把戏呢？』纸牌的秘密
汉斯与父亲从挪威到希腊，寻找离家多年的母亲，在途了汉斯遇上奇遇，得到一本只有放大镜才可看到的小圆面包书，内容是一名水手遭遇船难，流落到一个奇异的小岛，岛上有５２个古怪的人物，原来是一人幻想中的一幅纸牌变成活生生的人物，故事虚幻迷离，故事中又含有另一个故事。然而汉斯却要保守秘密，在途中偷看小圆面包书，不能告欣父亲，最後发现这个二百年前的故事却与汉斯有关．．．
作者乔斯坦．贾德保持一向的作风，除了一颗赤子之心，在故事中注入哲学的思想让人堕入扑朔迷离的故事之馀，也不断反思人生的问题，发人深省，值得提的是译者李永平的功力深厚，把作者的笔触充分展现於读者的眼前。
本书已被译为23种不同的语言，在世界各地发售，并荣获『挪威文学评论协会奖』及『文化部奖』。如果以十粒星为满分，这本书绝对值十一分！
纸牌的秘密-致中文版读者
每个人心里都活着一个小丑——致中文版读者
最近这几年来，每回去逛书店，我们这群对哲学有兴趣的人总会感受到一种暖昧的乐趣。看到那——堆堆陈列在亮丽“新时代’，(Ncw Age)、“另类哲学”(A1ternatiVe Philosophy)下的新书，我们都会忍不住买上丁L本。另类哲学一本本展示在我们眼前，任由我们挑选，确实令人兴奋，但我们同时也期盼这家书店能供应更多“真正的”哲学书。我们在书架间兜来兜去，找了老半天，终于不得不面对一个事实：在偌大的一家书店，要买一本真正的哲学书还真不容易呢。
这个现象马上就要写改变了。我们正面临－－一个强劲的哲学复兴运动。也许，我们对那些“另类玩意”已经感到厌足。这一类书，有些的确很有趣，但也搀杂着太多糟粕。
说穿了，另类哲学不啻是一种哲学式的春宫一—或许我们可以管它叫“速成哲学”。打开书本，一晃眼你就被引进一个哲学奇境，如同春宫电影或色情小说“瞬间” 把你吸入情欲世界。可是，大部分“另类哲学”跟真正的哲学压根儿扯不上半点关系；同样的，春宫电影呈现的并不是真诚的爱情。哲学和爱情都需要时间来培养、深化。追求智慧和爱情，是不能抄近路走捷径的。
哲学兴起于古希腊城邦的市集。今天，哲学同样可以兴起于小孩子就读的幼稚园。这几年来，我一直鼓吹将哲学带回到最早的两个根源——市场和学校。我愿借此机会，向中文版读者说明，在《纸牌的秘密》一书中，我是如何将哲学带回到人类的童年。我的另一本书《苏菲的世界》，强调的则是哲学和市集之间的密切关系。这两本书其实是姊妹篇，相辅相成。
《纸牌的秘密》这部小说的主角，是一个叫汉斯汤玛士的小男孩。他跟随父亲，展开一趟漫长的穿越整个欧洲的旅程，进入“哲学的故乡”。我想透过这样一个故事，表达我对欧洲文化传统和历史的一些看法。我的最大企图．是以年轻人觉得有趣的方式，向读者们提出——连串有关生存的根本问题。
前往雅典的旅途中，在巧妙的机缘安排下，汉斯汤玛寸：获赠一本奇异的小书。那本书把他带到公元1790年发生的——场海难。故事的主人翁是个名叫佛洛德的水手。船沉没后，他漂流到加勒比海的—座荒岛上，独居五十二年；陪伴他度过漫长岁月、帮助他排遣寂寞的，就是随身携带的—副扑克牌。说也奇怪，后来这五十三张纸牌竟然变成了五十三个有血有肉、活蹦乱跳的侏儒。这群小矮人在岛上建立一座村庄，环绕着佛洛德。除了—个侏儒外，他们都无法解释自己究竟是谁、来自何方。唯—知道奥秘的侏儒，就是扑克牌中的那张“丑角牌”。
在《纸牌的秘密》这本书中，小丑象征“圈外人”——一他能够看到别人看不到的人生真相。最重要的是，他能够体认人生是场有趣的冒险。所以，在岛-上那些日子。他不断向同胞们提出有关人生的新问题。
在人生的纸牌游戏中，我们每个人一生下来就是小丑。可是，随着年龄增长，我们渐渐变成红心、方块、梅花、黑桃。但这并不意味我们心中的小丑从此消失无踪。我们不妨摊开一副扑克牌，看看那些红心图案或方块图案底下，是不是隐藏着一个丑角呢?
这让我想起古老的羊皮纸文件。欧洲人使用这种羊皮纸。往往会刮掉上面原有的文字，重新写上其他东西。于是，当我们翻阅中古世纪的一本账簿，浏览当时五谷和鱼货的价目时，揉揉眼睛，仔细一瞧，会赫然发现．那些羊皮纸原先记载的，竟是古罗马的—出喜剧。同样的，我们对世界的好奇，也深深隐藏在每个人心中。在那儿，我们找到一群群耍把戏、变魔术、打诨插科逗观众发笑的家伙，也看到许多小精灵、侏儒、仙女和妖魔鬼怪，甚至还跟随爱丽丝漫游奇境，陪伴王后一块喝下午茶。
各位读者想必会注意到，《纸牌的秘密》书中的小丑是一个侏儒。他是永恒的小孩，永远都不会完全长大，永远都不会对人生失去好奇。就这一点来说，他称得．上古往今来所有伟大哲学家的亲属。在古希腊，苏格拉底就是他那个时代的一副扑克牌中的丑角牌(少年时期，他没事就跑到雅典的市集，随便抓个人问问题！)苏格拉底曾说：“雅典就像一匹没精打采的马儿。我将扮演‘牛虻’的角色，狠狠咬它一口，让它飞腾跳跃起来”。(而我们的“牛虻”却在干什么呢?)
我们每个人心中都活着一个小丑。这也是苏格拉底的看法。身为哲学家，苏格拉底其实并不具备特殊的“资历”；他只是——个助产士而已。接生婆帮助产妇生下孩子，苏格拉底帮助人们“生下”人生的智慧。这种比喻当然是老调，但这个古老的接生婆象征却具有另一层涵意，值得我们深思：需要被接生出来的，实际上是我们每个人心中的那个孩子。
几千年来，人类总是遭受一连串重大问题困扰，而四处却找不到现成的答案。结果，我们被迫面对两种选择：我们可以欺骗自己，假装我们知道一切值得知道的事情，或者，我们索性闭上眼睛，拒绝面对人生根本问题，乐得逍遥度日，摆脱烦恼。今天的人类基本上分成这两大族群。我们若不是趾高气扬，自以为通晓人间事理，就是干脆承认自己无知，不去过问自认为不懂的事情。这种现象就如同把一副扑克牌分成两堆，红的放在——边，黑的摆在另一边。可是，每隔一阵子，那张丑角牌就会从牌堆中探出脸来。它既不是红心和方块，也不是梅花和黑桃。
在雅典城，苏格拉底就是这么一个丑角——既不桀骛，也不冷漠。他只知道一件事：人世间有很多事情他并不懂。这个；念头时时折磨他，于是他就去当个哲学家，成为一个永不放弃探寻人生真相、对人生不断提出新问题的人。
在我看来，哲学的最大功能，是帮助我们找出心中隐藏的那个“丑角”，让我们跟他建立更亲密的情谊。哲学家必须扫除覆盖在世界上的那层尘埃，让我们以儿童的清澈眼光，重新观看和感受这个世界。人生原本是一则美妙的童话故事，而长大后变得“世故”的我们，竟然剥去它那袭神秘的外衣，把它看成——个枯燥无味的 “现实”。但我们每个人都还有复活的希望，因为我们全都是丑角的后裔。我们内心深处，都有一个活蹦乱跳、睁着一只大眼睛、对人生充满好奇的孩子在活着。尽管有时候我们会觉得自己渺小琐碎，但是，切莫忘了，我们每个人的肌肤下面都隐藏着一小块黄金：曾经，在这个世界上，我们是一个洁净无尘、心如明镜的赤子……
当年，我们被带进一则童话故事中——这个童话比我们在孩提时代听过的童话都要美妙动听——可是，没多久，我们就把周围的一切视为当然，不再好奇。如今我们甚至不会注意到，我们家中那张新买的婴儿床上，有一件神奇的事正在发生。就在那儿——婴儿床的栏杆后面——世界正被创造。
而世界永远不会衰老；衰老的是我们。只要婴儿不断出生，只要新人不断来到世上，我们的世界就会永葆清新，新得就跟上帝创 世第七天时一模一样。孩子现在刚刚进入这则伟大的童话故事；他 睁着清澈澄净的眼睛，责备我们把这个世界看成“现实”，离它愈来愈远。
“妈‘天使为什么会有翅膀呢?……星星为什么会眨眼睛呢? ……鸟儿为什么会飞呢?……大象的鼻子为什么那样长呢?”
“哎呀，我怎么晓得呀!乖，现在该闭上眼睛睡觉哕，否则的话，妈可就要生气啰！”
讥来诡谲，孩子丧失对世界的这种积极的、充满活力的感受时，正巧是他开始学说话的时候。所以，孩子们需要神话和童话。大人们也需要神话和童话，因为它能帮助我们紧紧抓住儿时的经验，不让它流失。
我觉得，十九或二十岁才开始接触哲学书籍，实在已经太迟了。最近欧洲流行婴儿游泳，因为父母们觉得，既然游泳是人类与生俱来的本能，但这种本能必须加以呵护。对人生好奇并不是学来的，而是我们自己遗忘掉的本能。
我们总爱夸夸其谈，大谈“人生的奥秘”。要亲身体验这个奥秘，我们就得摆脱世故的矫情，让自己再当一次孩子。想当孩子，就得往后退一步－－也许，退了一步后，我们会发现眼前豁然出现一个美妙的世界。就在那一刻，我们目击世界的创造过程。朗朗晴空下，一个崭新的世界蹦地冒了出来……
而居然有人说他们觉得人生挺无聊！
李永平译
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.
汉斯与父亲从挪威到希腊，寻找离家多年的母亲，在途了汉斯遇上奇遇，得到一本只有放大镜才可看到的小圆面包书，内容是一名水手遭遇船难，流落到一个奇异的小岛，岛上有５２个古怪的人物，原来是一人幻想中的一幅纸牌变成活生生的人物，故事虚幻迷离，故事中又含有另一个故事。然而汉斯却要保守秘密，在途中偷看小圆面包书，不能告欣父亲，最後发现这个二百年前的故事却与汉斯有关．．．
作者乔斯坦．贾德保持一向的作风，除了一颗赤子之心，在故事中注入哲学的思想让人堕入扑朔迷离的故事之馀，也不断反思人生的问题，发人深省，值得提的是译者李永平的功力深厚，把作者的笔触充分展现於读者的眼前。
本书已被译为23种不同的语言，在世界各地发售，并荣获『挪威文学评论协会奖』及『文化部奖』。如果以十粒星为满分，这本书绝对值十一分！
纸牌的秘密-致中文版读者
每个人心里都活着一个小丑——致中文版读者
最近这几年来，每回去逛书店，我们这群对哲学有兴趣的人总会感受到一种暖昧的乐趣。看到那——堆堆陈列在亮丽“新时代’，(Ncw Age)、“另类哲学”(A1ternatiVe Philosophy)下的新书，我们都会忍不住买上丁L本。另类哲学一本本展示在我们眼前，任由我们挑选，确实令人兴奋，但我们同时也期盼这家书店能供应更多“真正的”哲学书。我们在书架间兜来兜去，找了老半天，终于不得不面对一个事实：在偌大的一家书店，要买一本真正的哲学书还真不容易呢。
这个现象马上就要写改变了。我们正面临－－一个强劲的哲学复兴运动。也许，我们对那些“另类玩意”已经感到厌足。这一类书，有些的确很有趣，但也搀杂着太多糟粕。
说穿了，另类哲学不啻是一种哲学式的春宫一—或许我们可以管它叫“速成哲学”。打开书本，一晃眼你就被引进一个哲学奇境，如同春宫电影或色情小说“瞬间” 把你吸入情欲世界。可是，大部分“另类哲学”跟真正的哲学压根儿扯不上半点关系；同样的，春宫电影呈现的并不是真诚的爱情。哲学和爱情都需要时间来培养、深化。追求智慧和爱情，是不能抄近路走捷径的。
哲学兴起于古希腊城邦的市集。今天，哲学同样可以兴起于小孩子就读的幼稚园。这几年来，我一直鼓吹将哲学带回到最早的两个根源——市场和学校。我愿借此机会，向中文版读者说明，在《纸牌的秘密》一书中，我是如何将哲学带回到人类的童年。我的另一本书《苏菲的世界》，强调的则是哲学和市集之间的密切关系。这两本书其实是姊妹篇，相辅相成。
《纸牌的秘密》这部小说的主角，是一个叫汉斯汤玛士的小男孩。他跟随父亲，展开一趟漫长的穿越整个欧洲的旅程，进入“哲学的故乡”。我想透过这样一个故事，表达我对欧洲文化传统和历史的一些看法。我的最大企图．是以年轻人觉得有趣的方式，向读者们提出——连串有关生存的根本问题。
前往雅典的旅途中，在巧妙的机缘安排下，汉斯汤玛寸：获赠一本奇异的小书。那本书把他带到公元1790年发生的——场海难。故事的主人翁是个名叫佛洛德的水手。船沉没后，他漂流到加勒比海的—座荒岛上，独居五十二年；陪伴他度过漫长岁月、帮助他排遣寂寞的，就是随身携带的—副扑克牌。说也奇怪，后来这五十三张纸牌竟然变成了五十三个有血有肉、活蹦乱跳的侏儒。这群小矮人在岛上建立一座村庄，环绕着佛洛德。除了—个侏儒外，他们都无法解释自己究竟是谁、来自何方。唯—知道奥秘的侏儒，就是扑克牌中的那张“丑角牌”。
在《纸牌的秘密》这本书中，小丑象征“圈外人”——一他能够看到别人看不到的人生真相。最重要的是，他能够体认人生是场有趣的冒险。所以，在岛-上那些日子。他不断向同胞们提出有关人生的新问题。
在人生的纸牌游戏中，我们每个人一生下来就是小丑。可是，随着年龄增长，我们渐渐变成红心、方块、梅花、黑桃。但这并不意味我们心中的小丑从此消失无踪。我们不妨摊开一副扑克牌，看看那些红心图案或方块图案底下，是不是隐藏着一个丑角呢?
这让我想起古老的羊皮纸文件。欧洲人使用这种羊皮纸。往往会刮掉上面原有的文字，重新写上其他东西。于是，当我们翻阅中古世纪的一本账簿，浏览当时五谷和鱼货的价目时，揉揉眼睛，仔细一瞧，会赫然发现．那些羊皮纸原先记载的，竟是古罗马的—出喜剧。同样的，我们对世界的好奇，也深深隐藏在每个人心中。在那儿，我们找到一群群耍把戏、变魔术、打诨插科逗观众发笑的家伙，也看到许多小精灵、侏儒、仙女和妖魔鬼怪，甚至还跟随爱丽丝漫游奇境，陪伴王后一块喝下午茶。
各位读者想必会注意到，《纸牌的秘密》书中的小丑是一个侏儒。他是永恒的小孩，永远都不会完全长大，永远都不会对人生失去好奇。就这一点来说，他称得．上古往今来所有伟大哲学家的亲属。在古希腊，苏格拉底就是他那个时代的一副扑克牌中的丑角牌(少年时期，他没事就跑到雅典的市集，随便抓个人问问题！)苏格拉底曾说：“雅典就像一匹没精打采的马儿。我将扮演‘牛虻’的角色，狠狠咬它一口，让它飞腾跳跃起来”。(而我们的“牛虻”却在干什么呢?)
我们每个人心中都活着一个小丑。这也是苏格拉底的看法。身为哲学家，苏格拉底其实并不具备特殊的“资历”；他只是——个助产士而已。接生婆帮助产妇生下孩子，苏格拉底帮助人们“生下”人生的智慧。这种比喻当然是老调，但这个古老的接生婆象征却具有另一层涵意，值得我们深思：需要被接生出来的，实际上是我们每个人心中的那个孩子。
几千年来，人类总是遭受一连串重大问题困扰，而四处却找不到现成的答案。结果，我们被迫面对两种选择：我们可以欺骗自己，假装我们知道一切值得知道的事情，或者，我们索性闭上眼睛，拒绝面对人生根本问题，乐得逍遥度日，摆脱烦恼。今天的人类基本上分成这两大族群。我们若不是趾高气扬，自以为通晓人间事理，就是干脆承认自己无知，不去过问自认为不懂的事情。这种现象就如同把一副扑克牌分成两堆，红的放在——边，黑的摆在另一边。可是，每隔一阵子，那张丑角牌就会从牌堆中探出脸来。它既不是红心和方块，也不是梅花和黑桃。
在雅典城，苏格拉底就是这么一个丑角——既不桀骛，也不冷漠。他只知道一件事：人世间有很多事情他并不懂。这个；念头时时折磨他，于是他就去当个哲学家，成为一个永不放弃探寻人生真相、对人生不断提出新问题的人。
在我看来，哲学的最大功能，是帮助我们找出心中隐藏的那个“丑角”，让我们跟他建立更亲密的情谊。哲学家必须扫除覆盖在世界上的那层尘埃，让我们以儿童的清澈眼光，重新观看和感受这个世界。人生原本是一则美妙的童话故事，而长大后变得“世故”的我们，竟然剥去它那袭神秘的外衣，把它看成——个枯燥无味的 “现实”。但我们每个人都还有复活的希望，因为我们全都是丑角的后裔。我们内心深处，都有一个活蹦乱跳、睁着一只大眼睛、对人生充满好奇的孩子在活着。尽管有时候我们会觉得自己渺小琐碎，但是，切莫忘了，我们每个人的肌肤下面都隐藏着一小块黄金：曾经，在这个世界上，我们是一个洁净无尘、心如明镜的赤子……
当年，我们被带进一则童话故事中——这个童话比我们在孩提时代听过的童话都要美妙动听——可是，没多久，我们就把周围的一切视为当然，不再好奇。如今我们甚至不会注意到，我们家中那张新买的婴儿床上，有一件神奇的事正在发生。就在那儿——婴儿床的栏杆后面——世界正被创造。
而世界永远不会衰老；衰老的是我们。只要婴儿不断出生，只要新人不断来到世上，我们的世界就会永葆清新，新得就跟上帝创 世第七天时一模一样。孩子现在刚刚进入这则伟大的童话故事；他 睁着清澈澄净的眼睛，责备我们把这个世界看成“现实”，离它愈来愈远。
“妈‘天使为什么会有翅膀呢?……星星为什么会眨眼睛呢? ……鸟儿为什么会飞呢?……大象的鼻子为什么那样长呢?”
“哎呀，我怎么晓得呀!乖，现在该闭上眼睛睡觉哕，否则的话，妈可就要生气啰！”
讥来诡谲，孩子丧失对世界的这种积极的、充满活力的感受时，正巧是他开始学说话的时候。所以，孩子们需要神话和童话。大人们也需要神话和童话，因为它能帮助我们紧紧抓住儿时的经验，不让它流失。
我觉得，十九或二十岁才开始接触哲学书籍，实在已经太迟了。最近欧洲流行婴儿游泳，因为父母们觉得，既然游泳是人类与生俱来的本能，但这种本能必须加以呵护。对人生好奇并不是学来的，而是我们自己遗忘掉的本能。
我们总爱夸夸其谈，大谈“人生的奥秘”。要亲身体验这个奥秘，我们就得摆脱世故的矫情，让自己再当一次孩子。想当孩子，就得往后退一步－－也许，退了一步后，我们会发现眼前豁然出现一个美妙的世界。就在那一刻，我们目击世界的创造过程。朗朗晴空下，一个崭新的世界蹦地冒了出来……
而居然有人说他们觉得人生挺无聊！
李永平译
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.
这是一本关于哲学史的小说，２０世纪百部经典著作之一 ，１９９４年获"德国青少年文学奖"与"最优秀作品奖" 。
该书自１９９１年出版发行之后，长期雄踞各国畅销书排行榜第一名，世界上已有３５个国家购买了该书的版权。截止到１９９５年５月，该书德文版的销售已达１２０万册的天文数字。一部《苏菲的世界》就是一部深入浅出的人类哲学史。它不仅能唤醒人们内心深处对生命的敬仰与赞叹、对人生意义的关心与好奇，而且也为每一个人的成长——使生命从混沌走向智慧、由困惑而进入觉悟之境，挂起了一盏盏明亮的桅灯……
《苏菲的世界》以小说 苏菲的世界(电影) 的形式，通过一名哲学导师向一个叫苏菲的女孩传授哲学知识的经过，揭示了西方哲学史发展的历程。由前苏格拉底时代到萨特，以及亚里士多德、笛卡儿、黑格尔等人的思想都通过作者生动的笔触跃然纸上，并配以当时的历史背景加以解释，引人入胜。评论家认为，对于那些从未读过哲学课程的人而言，此书是最为合适的入门书，而对于那些以往读过一些哲学而已忘得一干二净的人士，也可起到温故知新的作用。
《苏菲的世界》[书籍]-概述
该书自1991年出版发行之后，长期雄踞各国畅销书排行榜第一名，世界上已有35个国家购买了该书的版权。截止到1995年5月，该书德文版的销售已达120万册的天文数字。一部《苏菲的世界》就是一部深入浅出的人类哲学史。它不仅能唤醒人们内心深处对生命的敬仰与赞叹、对人生意义的关心与好奇，而且也为每一个人的成长--使生命从混沌走向智慧、由困惑而进入觉悟之境，挂起了一盏盏明亮的桅灯……
《苏菲的世界》[书籍]-故事梗概
14岁的少女苏菲某天放学回家，收到了神秘的一封信——“你是谁？世界从哪里来？”从这一天开始，苏菲不断接到一些极不寻常的来信，世界像谜团一般在她眼底展开。在一位神秘导师的指导引下，苏菲开始思索从古希腊到康德，从祁克果到佛洛伊德等各位大师所思考的根本问题。她运用少女天生的悟性与后天知识，企图解开这些谜团。然而，事实真相远比她所想的更怪异、更离奇……
《苏菲的世界》，即是智慧的世界，梦的世界。它将会唤醒每个人内心深处对生命的赞叹与对人生终极意义的关怀和好奇。
《苏菲的世界》[书籍]-摘要
你是谁？
她怎么会知道？不用说，她的名字叫苏菲，但那个叫做苏菲的人又是谁呢？她还没想出来。
如果她取了另外一个名字呢？比如说，如果她叫做安妮的话，她会不会变成别人？
这使她想起爸爸原本要将她取名为莉莉。她试着想象自己与别人握手，并且介绍自己名叫莉莉的情景，但觉得好像很不对劲，像是别人在自我介绍一般。
她跳起来，走进浴室，手里拿着那封奇怪的信。她站在镜子前面，凝视着自己的眼睛。“我的名字叫莉莉。”她说。
镜中的女孩却连眼睛也不眨一下。无论苏菲做什么，她都依样画葫芦。苏菲飞快地做了一个动作，想使镜中的影像追赶不及，但那个女孩却和她一般的敏捷。
“你是谁？”苏菲问。
镜中的人也不回答。有一刹那，她觉得迷惑，弄不清楚刚才问问题的到底是她，还是镜中的影像。
苏菲用食指点着镜中的鼻子，说：“你是我。”
对方依旧没有反应。于是她将句子颠倒过来，说：“我是你。”
《苏菲的世界》[书籍]-书评
贾德这本关于哲学史的小说可谓是空前的，他再次用事实证明了哲学并不是脱离现实的学院人士在象牙塔里所写的东西。--《德意志星期日汇报》
该书是一个将学术作品通俗化的杰出范例，未曾修习哲学概论的人，可以把它作为一本最佳的入门读物，而学习过此门课程但已忘却大半的人，本书则是温故而知新的得力之作。 --美国《新闻周刊》
挪威作家乔斯坦·贾德不仅文笔卓尔不群，同时有多年担任哲学教师的经历，《苏菲的世界》一书有助于使读者以阅读侦探小说般的心情游览从柏拉图以前一直到２０世纪的世界哲学史，而丝毫不产生任何枯燥厌烦的感觉。 --著名作家与评论家马德兰·蓝格尔
哲学不是万灵丹，但是从来不去留意“爱好智慧”的重要与前人的心得，那么注定会陷于心灵封闭与终结。这或许是本书广受欢迎的原因吧为了使人从困惑到觉悟，本书提供了一盏明灯。--哲学教授傅佩茱
《苏菲的世界》可以当做哲学启蒙书来阅读。它的小说部分，苏菲的主体自觉过程则颇像侦探故事加上现代版的————《爱丽丝梦游仙境》，哲学加侦探，加幻想，再加上宇宙观，它让人更加心胸开阔，这不正是哲学“爱智”最古典的要义吗知名作家南方朔
这本书的流行有其重要性，我们可以从好几方面来看。全书虽非学术性著作，但它是一本捍卫哲学的书，正因为其大众化，它也就代表了“大多数人的看法”。这本书不是在探讨哲学上的某一特别思潮或历史，而是尝试对每一派别做概论式的介绍，并说明它在今日的地位。可以说是一本集“学术界一般看法的摘要录”。因此，这本书表达了当今知识分子的立场。
假如《苏菲的世界》代表着主流知识分子的哲学观点，它所表达的也极引人注目。这本书对真实的哲学给予极崇高的评价：批判的、理性的和公正的评论；去除偏见、迷信和惯例；不做仓促和轻率的判断，一意追求真理、知识、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.
该书自１９９１年出版发行之后，长期雄踞各国畅销书排行榜第一名，世界上已有３５个国家购买了该书的版权。截止到１９９５年５月，该书德文版的销售已达１２０万册的天文数字。一部《苏菲的世界》就是一部深入浅出的人类哲学史。它不仅能唤醒人们内心深处对生命的敬仰与赞叹、对人生意义的关心与好奇，而且也为每一个人的成长——使生命从混沌走向智慧、由困惑而进入觉悟之境，挂起了一盏盏明亮的桅灯……
《苏菲的世界》以小说 苏菲的世界(电影) 的形式，通过一名哲学导师向一个叫苏菲的女孩传授哲学知识的经过，揭示了西方哲学史发展的历程。由前苏格拉底时代到萨特，以及亚里士多德、笛卡儿、黑格尔等人的思想都通过作者生动的笔触跃然纸上，并配以当时的历史背景加以解释，引人入胜。评论家认为，对于那些从未读过哲学课程的人而言，此书是最为合适的入门书，而对于那些以往读过一些哲学而已忘得一干二净的人士，也可起到温故知新的作用。
《苏菲的世界》[书籍]-概述
该书自1991年出版发行之后，长期雄踞各国畅销书排行榜第一名，世界上已有35个国家购买了该书的版权。截止到1995年5月，该书德文版的销售已达120万册的天文数字。一部《苏菲的世界》就是一部深入浅出的人类哲学史。它不仅能唤醒人们内心深处对生命的敬仰与赞叹、对人生意义的关心与好奇，而且也为每一个人的成长--使生命从混沌走向智慧、由困惑而进入觉悟之境，挂起了一盏盏明亮的桅灯……
《苏菲的世界》[书籍]-故事梗概
14岁的少女苏菲某天放学回家，收到了神秘的一封信——“你是谁？世界从哪里来？”从这一天开始，苏菲不断接到一些极不寻常的来信，世界像谜团一般在她眼底展开。在一位神秘导师的指导引下，苏菲开始思索从古希腊到康德，从祁克果到佛洛伊德等各位大师所思考的根本问题。她运用少女天生的悟性与后天知识，企图解开这些谜团。然而，事实真相远比她所想的更怪异、更离奇……
《苏菲的世界》，即是智慧的世界，梦的世界。它将会唤醒每个人内心深处对生命的赞叹与对人生终极意义的关怀和好奇。
《苏菲的世界》[书籍]-摘要
你是谁？
她怎么会知道？不用说，她的名字叫苏菲，但那个叫做苏菲的人又是谁呢？她还没想出来。
如果她取了另外一个名字呢？比如说，如果她叫做安妮的话，她会不会变成别人？
这使她想起爸爸原本要将她取名为莉莉。她试着想象自己与别人握手，并且介绍自己名叫莉莉的情景，但觉得好像很不对劲，像是别人在自我介绍一般。
她跳起来，走进浴室，手里拿着那封奇怪的信。她站在镜子前面，凝视着自己的眼睛。“我的名字叫莉莉。”她说。
镜中的女孩却连眼睛也不眨一下。无论苏菲做什么，她都依样画葫芦。苏菲飞快地做了一个动作，想使镜中的影像追赶不及，但那个女孩却和她一般的敏捷。
“你是谁？”苏菲问。
镜中的人也不回答。有一刹那，她觉得迷惑，弄不清楚刚才问问题的到底是她，还是镜中的影像。
苏菲用食指点着镜中的鼻子，说：“你是我。”
对方依旧没有反应。于是她将句子颠倒过来，说：“我是你。”
《苏菲的世界》[书籍]-书评
贾德这本关于哲学史的小说可谓是空前的，他再次用事实证明了哲学并不是脱离现实的学院人士在象牙塔里所写的东西。--《德意志星期日汇报》
该书是一个将学术作品通俗化的杰出范例，未曾修习哲学概论的人，可以把它作为一本最佳的入门读物，而学习过此门课程但已忘却大半的人，本书则是温故而知新的得力之作。 --美国《新闻周刊》
挪威作家乔斯坦·贾德不仅文笔卓尔不群，同时有多年担任哲学教师的经历，《苏菲的世界》一书有助于使读者以阅读侦探小说般的心情游览从柏拉图以前一直到２０世纪的世界哲学史，而丝毫不产生任何枯燥厌烦的感觉。 --著名作家与评论家马德兰·蓝格尔
哲学不是万灵丹，但是从来不去留意“爱好智慧”的重要与前人的心得，那么注定会陷于心灵封闭与终结。这或许是本书广受欢迎的原因吧为了使人从困惑到觉悟，本书提供了一盏明灯。--哲学教授傅佩茱
《苏菲的世界》可以当做哲学启蒙书来阅读。它的小说部分，苏菲的主体自觉过程则颇像侦探故事加上现代版的————《爱丽丝梦游仙境》，哲学加侦探，加幻想，再加上宇宙观，它让人更加心胸开阔，这不正是哲学“爱智”最古典的要义吗知名作家南方朔
这本书的流行有其重要性，我们可以从好几方面来看。全书虽非学术性著作，但它是一本捍卫哲学的书，正因为其大众化，它也就代表了“大多数人的看法”。这本书不是在探讨哲学上的某一特别思潮或历史，而是尝试对每一派别做概论式的介绍，并说明它在今日的地位。可以说是一本集“学术界一般看法的摘要录”。因此，这本书表达了当今知识分子的立场。
假如《苏菲的世界》代表着主流知识分子的哲学观点，它所表达的也极引人注目。这本书对真实的哲学给予极崇高的评价：批判的、理性的和公正的评论；去除偏见、迷信和惯例；不做仓促和轻率的判断，一意追求真理、知识、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.
作者:[挪威]乔斯坦·贾德 莫光华 译
一个来自遥远冰雪世界的缠绵悱恻、...
橙色女孩
主人公乔治在14岁的某一天，意外地得到了已去世多年的父亲写给他的一封信。信中，父亲向乔治吐露了一个秘密，一个令人感动的爱情故事——70年代末一个深秋的下午，在电车站，父亲撞翻了一个身着橙色衣服的女孩怀抱的满筐橙子。之后他们在一间咖啡馆里再次邂逅，女孩仍然穿着那件橙色衣服，怀里依旧抱着一大袋橙子。正当父亲为他俩再次的偶遇感到诧异时，女孩眼里竟满含泪水地转身而去。父亲木然地伫立在街头，任由她消失在茫茫的人海中......
橙色女孩(1)
橙色女孩(2)
橙色女孩(3)
橙色女孩(4)
橙色女孩(5)
橙色女孩(6)
橙色女孩(7)
橙色女孩(8)
橙色女孩(9)
橙色女孩(10)
橙色女孩(11)
橙色女孩(12)
橙色女孩(13)
橙色女孩(14)
橙色女孩(15)
橙色女孩(16)
橙色女孩(17)
橙色女孩(18)
橙色女孩(19)
橙色女孩(20)
橙色女孩(21)
橙色女孩(22)
橙色女孩(23)
橙色女孩(24)
橙色女孩(25)
橙色女孩(26)
橙色女孩(27)
橙色女孩(28)
一个来自遥远冰雪世界的缠绵悱恻、...
橙色女孩
主人公乔治在14岁的某一天，意外地得到了已去世多年的父亲写给他的一封信。信中，父亲向乔治吐露了一个秘密，一个令人感动的爱情故事——70年代末一个深秋的下午，在电车站，父亲撞翻了一个身着橙色衣服的女孩怀抱的满筐橙子。之后他们在一间咖啡馆里再次邂逅，女孩仍然穿着那件橙色衣服，怀里依旧抱着一大袋橙子。正当父亲为他俩再次的偶遇感到诧异时，女孩眼里竟满含泪水地转身而去。父亲木然地伫立在街头，任由她消失在茫茫的人海中......
橙色女孩(1)
橙色女孩(2)
橙色女孩(3)
橙色女孩(4)
橙色女孩(5)
橙色女孩(6)
橙色女孩(7)
橙色女孩(8)
橙色女孩(9)
橙色女孩(10)
橙色女孩(11)
橙色女孩(12)
橙色女孩(13)
橙色女孩(14)
橙色女孩(15)
橙色女孩(16)
橙色女孩(17)
橙色女孩(18)
橙色女孩(19)
橙色女孩(20)
橙色女孩(21)
橙色女孩(22)
橙色女孩(23)
橙色女孩(24)
橙色女孩(25)
橙色女孩(26)
橙色女孩(27)
橙色女孩(28)