This will be the last posting I will ask you to do for SW. We will start the year off in EHAP with 50-question CPS MC test over the book so you'd better read it if you haven't!
Answer the following questions by July 20:
1. Are you a rationalist or an empiricist? Use examples from Alberto's lessons and Sophie's reactions to them in your response.
2. Why does Alberto tell Sophie several times that Berkeley will be a particularly important philosopher for them? (Hint: What is the solution to the mysteries in the first half of the novel, i.e., how can Hermes talk? How can Sophie have found the gold crucifix from her dream under her bed? Etc.)
3. What is the purpose of the chapter entitled “The Garden Party”?
4. Which of the philosophers that Sophie learns about do you find the most compelling? (In other words, which one do you think was/is right?)
5. Is Sophie real? Explain why you think she is or is not.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
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