philosophy lessons. As she gets more and more involved with these lessons she soon

starts to really look at things in the world at a different perspective. Still strange things

are occurring to Sophie like her getting postcards from Hildes father from the UN

Battalion in Lebanon. Sophie still can not figure out why these postcards are coming to

her and not Hilde. Sophie starts learning about the Hellenistic Age in pages 121- 139.

Hellenism, is an interest in, a devotion to, and imitation of the culture and ideals of

ancient Greece, especially as developed in Athens n the 5th and 4th centuries BC. The

term, implying an unrestricted, pagan love of life, is often used in contrast to Hebraism,

which implies an austerely moralistic, less sensuous, way of life. The two main

philosophical schools that Sophie learned about were Stoicism and Epicureanism. The

Stoics taught that one should live according to nature, which is the reason of Logos that

permenates all things. The sage who follows this advice will achieve apatheia, or freedom

from suffering. The Epicureans held that all things are composed of atoms and the void

thought: MAYBE OUR ENTIRE LIVES ARE A DREAM. What a strange concept.

Descartes stated , "In our search for the direct road to truth, we should busy ourselves

lesson she went home but she had to take the bus home but remembered she had no

began was expressed by him in his famous words, "I think therefore I am". From this

thought. Thought and extension are considered to depend on and exist in an ultimate

a picture of Madonna with a little drop water from under her eye. She questioned whether

there must be a mind in which all the ideas exist, an infinite omnipresent spirit, namely,

experiences. Hume denied the existence of the individual self, maintaining that because

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