Jostein Gaarder is the author of Sophie's World, the New York Times bestseller and a novel about the History of Philosophy. Just by looking at the cover of the book we can imagine that Jostein is talking about the Presocratic era, and the four most common names in the world, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Each philosopher has a different point of view of life, nature, and truth. The Presocratic and other three philosophers can be called "natural philosophers," since, as most early Greek philosophers were concerned with the natural (physical) world and its process.

To start talking about philosophy, we must know who were all these philosophers and their philosophical ideas. For furthering my understanding I looked for extra help to know more about each philosopher. First I thought that all this was crazy, but later on I recognize that during that time people were very interested in knowing everything, like why we live, how we live, and how and what nature is? These

Later on, Socrates appeared. Socrates was a philosopher that was always helping people. He said that society shapes consciousness. This is why we can say that he was practical and humanistic. "His perspective was based on Humanistic (Encarta Encyclopedia)."

Plato was concerned with what is eternal and immutable in nature, morals, and society. His thinking was like the Presocratic, metaphysical. I say this because he tried to explain what was reality using two worlds, the world of senses, which is incomplete knowledge by using five senses, and the world of ideas, true knowledge by using our reason. He wanted to answer those questions that can't have an answer. Plato believed in absolute truth because "reality is behind the world of ideas." His view of philosophy was not as I expected to be, but he gave a lot of importance to reason, and to a world of ideas.

The philosophers had a point of view about "truth." The Presocratic philosophers believed in absolute truth. They said that everything in the world is made out of substances. One thi

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