Reflections & Connections #4

In the chapter about Hume and Berkeley in Sophie’s World, there are many twists that came straight out of left field. First of all, it blew my mind when Hilde ripped open the ominous package in her room only to find a book written by her father entitled Sophie’s world. As soon as this happened, I knew that the book had trolled me hard. I thought something was up when Sophie started seeing and hearing weird things, but I thought nothing of it. I was absolutely sure that Alberto was somehow playing tricks on Sophie; hiding the cross underneath her pillow, and deceiving her into believe that Hermes could speak. It never even crossed my mind that Sophie’s existence may not be real. In the book, Sophie’s life and actions seem entirely plausible, and I would have never guessed that it was fiction. In the novel, if Sophie truly does not exist at all in the real world at all in the real world I will be thoroughly upset. I can relate the events occurring in the book to my life because all of my actions and all of the people in my life seem entirely real. Only until I was enrolled in the Honors Philosophy course and stated reading Sophie’s World did I start to question the reality of my existence. My life could be similar to Sophie’s and that is scary. I could just be a thought in someone’s head or words on a sheet of paper. My existence could be entirely false. I really really hope it’s not.