Chapter 2 (pp.12-22)
The Top Hat
...the only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder...
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Page 12:
1. What effect do the questions posed to Sophie from chapter one have on Sophie's attitude about the world?
Page 13:
2. Why do you think Sophie kept the letters a secret from Joanna?
3. Why did Joanna take the short-cut home?
Page 14-15:
4. Answer all of the following questions based on your own beliefs and give at least one reason to support your answer:
a - WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY?
b - How was the world created?
c - Is there any will or meaning behind what happens?
d - Is there life after death?
e - How can we answer these questions?
f - How ought we to live?
"Each individual has to discover his own answer to these same questions"
Reading what other people believe help us to formulate our own version of life
Philosophy is a detective story -the search for truth
Even if a question is difficult there may be one - or only one - right answer. Either there is some form of existence after death, or there is not.
- a lot has been explained by science. ie. what the dark side of the moon looks like.
Page 16
We are the magician's white rabbit, the difference is that we are aware that we are taking part in a magic trick, and we have the desire to know how it all works.
Page 17:
"A STRANGE CREATURE"
5. What about babies and children does the instructor find to be , "a pity, if you ask me"?
Page 18:
6. "But you might stumble upon yourself one day." Explain this line in the context of Sophie in front of the mirror from Chapter One.
Page 19:
7. Explain in your own words the difference between Thomas' and his Mother's reaction to Thomas' dad floating around under the ceiling.
8. How are philosophers different than most adults and more like small children? (bottom of page 19)
Page 20:
9. Reread paragraph five on page twenty. Explain what you think is meant in the last sentence when it states, "Some of them fall off..."
10. Why do you think those deep in the rabbit's fur would consider philosophers, "a bunch of trouble makers"?
11. Explain how Sophie reacts to the latest reading.
12. What was Sophie's Mother's reaction to how Sophie was acting?
The Top Hat
...the only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder...
Read this Chapter
Listen to this Chapter
Page 12:
1. What effect do the questions posed to Sophie from chapter one have on Sophie's attitude about the world?
Page 13:
2. Why do you think Sophie kept the letters a secret from Joanna?
3. Why did Joanna take the short-cut home?
Page 14-15:
4. Answer all of the following questions based on your own beliefs and give at least one reason to support your answer:
a - WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY?
b - How was the world created?
c - Is there any will or meaning behind what happens?
d - Is there life after death?
e - How can we answer these questions?
f - How ought we to live?
"Each individual has to discover his own answer to these same questions"
Reading what other people believe help us to formulate our own version of life
Philosophy is a detective story -the search for truth
Even if a question is difficult there may be one - or only one - right answer. Either there is some form of existence after death, or there is not.
- a lot has been explained by science. ie. what the dark side of the moon looks like.
Page 16
We are the magician's white rabbit, the difference is that we are aware that we are taking part in a magic trick, and we have the desire to know how it all works.
Page 17:
"A STRANGE CREATURE"
5. What about babies and children does the instructor find to be , "a pity, if you ask me"?
Page 18:
6. "But you might stumble upon yourself one day." Explain this line in the context of Sophie in front of the mirror from Chapter One.
Page 19:
7. Explain in your own words the difference between Thomas' and his Mother's reaction to Thomas' dad floating around under the ceiling.
8. How are philosophers different than most adults and more like small children? (bottom of page 19)
Page 20:
9. Reread paragraph five on page twenty. Explain what you think is meant in the last sentence when it states, "Some of them fall off..."
10. Why do you think those deep in the rabbit's fur would consider philosophers, "a bunch of trouble makers"?
11. Explain how Sophie reacts to the latest reading.
12. What was Sophie's Mother's reaction to how Sophie was acting?