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by Jostein Gaarder


  Big Bang

  Böhme, Jakob (1575–1624)

  Bohr, Niels (1855–1962)

  book printing

  Brahman

  brain

  Breton, André (1896–1966)

  Bruno, Giordano (1548–1600)

  Buddha, Gautama (c. 565–485 B.C.)

  Buddhism

  Byron, Lord (1788–1824)

  Byzantian, Byzantine

  Byzantium

  Calderón de la Barca, Pedro (1600–1681)

  Camus, Albert (1913–1960)

  capitalism, capitalist

  carpe diem

  caste system

  categorical imperative

  causality, law of; cause

  Cave, Myth of the

  cells, division of

  censorship

  chaos, forces of; monsters of

  Chaplin, Sir Charles (1889–1977)

  child, childhood

  children, sexuality in

  choices

  chromosome

  Chuang-tzu (365–290 B.C.)

  Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

  class struggle

  classless society

  cogito ergo sum

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772–1834)

  Communist Manifesto

  complex; complex idea

  Condorcet, Marquis de (1743–1794)

  conscience

  consciousness

  Constantinople

  contrapuntal form

  Copernicus, Nicolaus (1473–1543)

  cosmic, cosmos

  creation, moment of

  credo quia absurdum

  creed

  Crime and Punishment

  cultural criticism

  cultural optimism

  culture

  cyclic

  Cynics

  Damaris

  Darwin, Charles (1809–1882)

  Darwin, Erasmus (1731–1802)

  Dass, Petter (1647–1707)

  David (c. 1000 B.C.)

  degeneration

  deism

  Delphi

  democracy

  Democritus of Abdera (c. 460–370 B.C.)

  depth psychology

  Descartes, René (1596–1650)

  determinism

  dialectic

  dialogue

  Dickens, Charles (1812–1870)

  Ding an sich, das

  Diogenes of Sinope (d. c. 320 B.C.)

  Dionysos

  Diotima

  divine

  DNA molecule

  dogma

  Dostoevsky, Fyodor (1821–1881)

  dream and reality

  dream work

  dreams, interpretation of

  dualism

  Dyaus

  dynamic, dynamism

  dynamic logic

  ecocatastrophe

  ecological

  economist, economy

  ecophilosophy

  ego, ego concept

  Eleatics

  elemental particles

  Empedocles (c. 490–430 B.C.)

  “Emperor’s New Clothes, The,” 69

  empirical method

  empiricism, empiricist

  Engels, Friedrich (1820–1895)

  Enlightenment

  environment

  Epicurean

  Epicurus (341–270 B.C.)

  epoch

  equality of the sexes

  Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466–1536)

  eros

  essence

  eternal truths

  eternity, view of

  ethics

  Euripides (c. 484–406 B.C.)

  evil, problem of

  existence

  existence, struggle for

  existential, existentialism

  experiment

  faculty

  fairy tales

  faith

  Fall, the Fall of Man

  false ideas

  fate

  Faust

  feelings

  feminine values

  feminism, feminist

  fertility god, goddess

  feudal, feudalism

  Fichte, Johann Gottlieb (1762–1814)

  Ficino, Marsilio (1433–1499)

  figment of the imagination

  First Cause

  flesh, resurrection of the

  folk music

  folk songs, tales

  form

  fossils

  Franklin, Benjamin (1706–1790)

  freedom

  free will

  Freud, Sigmund (1856–1939)

  Freya

  Freyja

  frugality

  galaxy

  Galilei, Galileo (1564–1642)

  genes

  genius, worship of

  geocentric

  God

  “God is dead,” 450

  God’s existence

  God’s son

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749–1832)

  golden mean

  Gombrowicz, Witold (1904–1969)

  Gothic

  Gouges, Olympe de (1748–1793)

  gravitation; gravity, law of

  Grimm, Brothers

  Gustav III (1746–1792)

  Hamlet

  Handel, George Frideric (1685–1759)

  Hardy, Thomas (1840–1928)

  heaven

  Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770–1831)

  Heidegger, Martin (1889–1976)

  Heidelberg

  Heimdall

  heliocentric

  Hellenism

  Hephaestos

  Hera

  Heracles

  Heraclitus of Ephesus (c. 540–480 B.C.)

  Herder, Johann Gottfried von (1744–1803)

  hereditary factors

  hereditary hygiene

  heretic, heresy

  Hermes

  Herodotus (484–424 B.C.)

  Hesiod (c. 800 B.C.)

  High Gothic

  Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179)

  Hinduism

  Hippocrates (c. 460–c. 377 B.C.)

  historical materialist

  historico-critical

  Hobbes, Thomas (1588–1679)

  Hoder

  Hoffmann, E.T.A. (1776–1822)

  Holberg, Ludvig (1684–1754)

  Homer (8th century B.C.)

  human rights

  humanism

  Hume, David (1711–1776)

  Ibsen, Henrik (1828–1906)

  id

  ideal, idealism

  ideal state

  ideas, theory of

  ideas, world of

  immortal potions, immortality

  incunabulum

  individualism

  Indo-European

  indulgences, trade in

  inertia, law of

  inner cause

  insight

  intuitive

  Ionesco, Eugène (1912–1994)

  ironic, irony

  Islam

  Israel

  Jena

  Jeppe on the Mount

  Jerusalem

  Jesus Christ

  Judaism

  Jupiter

  justice

  Kant, Immanuel (1724–1804)

  Kepler, Johannes (1571–1630)

  Kierkegaard, Søren (1813–1855)

  Kingdom of God

  Koran

  Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste de (1744–1829)

  La Mettrie, Julien Offroy de (1709–1751)

  Laplace, Pierre-Simon (1749–1827)

  Late antiquity

  Latin

  Leibniz, G. W. (1646–1716)

  Leninism

  Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)

  life, philosophy of

  linear

  Little Match Girl

  Little Red Ridinghood

  Locke, John (1632–1704)

  logic

  Loki

  London

 
Louis XIV (1638–1715)

  Luther, Martin (1483–1546)

  Lyell, Sir Charles (1797–1875)

  Malthus, Thomas (1766–1834)

  Manichaeans

  manifest dream content

  Marcus Aurelius (121–180)

  Marx, Karl (1818–1883)

  Marxism, Marxist

  Marxism-Leninism

  material, materialism, matter

  mathematics

  mechanic, mechanistic

  mechanistic world view

  medical ethics

  medical science

  memento mori

  Mephistopheles

  Messiah

  method

  microcosmos

  Middle Ages

  Midgard

  Miletus

  Milky Way

  Mill, John Stuart (1806–1873)

  Mirandola, Pico della (1463–1494)

  mode

  Moe, Jørgen (1813–1882)

  molecule

  monarchy

  monetary economy

  monism, monist

  monotheism

  Montesquieu (1689–1755)

  moral law

  morals

  Moses (c. 1400 B.C.)

  mother nature

  Muhammad (c. 570–632)

  mutant, mutation

  mystery

  mystic, mysticism

  myth, mythology

  mythological world picture

  natural processes

  natural science

  necessity

  negation

  Neo-Darwinism

  Neoplatonic, Neoplatonism

  New Age

  new religiosity

  Newton, Sir Isaac (1642–1727)

  Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844–1900)

  nihilist

  Nils Holgersson

  Niord

  Noah, Noah’s Ark

  Novalis (1722–1801)

  objective truth

  occultism

  Odin

  Oedipus

  Of Mice and Men

  Old Testament

  oracle

  Oracle at Delphi

  organic

  organism

  Origin of Species, The

  Øverland, Arnulf (1889–1968)

  oxygen

  ozone layer

  pact

  pantheism, pantheist

  paradigm shift

  parapsychology

  Parmenides (c. 540–480 B.C.)

  Parthenon

  Passion, the

  Paul, St. (d. c. A.D. 67)

  Peace, Prince of

  pedagogical, pedagogy

  Peer Gynt

  penicillin

  perception

  Pharisee

  phenomenon

  philosopher, philosophy

  philosophical system

  planet, planetary orbit

  Plato (422–347 B.C.)

  pleasure ethic

  Plotinus (c. 205–270)

  polytheism

  population, growth of

  power, division of

  practical postulate

  practical reason

  pre-Socratics

  primal soup

  primary qualities

  primary senses

  primate

  primordial cell

  production, mode of

  progressive

  proletariat, dictatorship of the

  Protagoras of Abdera (c. 485–410 B.C.)

  psychic disorders

  psychoanalysis

  Pythia

  qualitative characteristics

  quantitative characteristics

  Radhakrishnan, Sarrepalli (1888–1975)

  radiation

  rationalism, rationalist

  reason

  reasoned truth

  reflection, reflective ideas

  Reformation

  religion, religious

  Renaissance

  responsibility

  revelation

  revolution

  Roman Empire, Roman period

  Romantic, Romanticism

  Rome

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712–1778)

  Ruskin, John (1819–1900)

  Russell, Bertrand (1872–1970)

  salvation

  Sartre, Jean-Paul (1905–1980)

  Saul (d. c. 1015 B.C.)

  Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von (1775–1854)

  Schiller, Friedrich von (1759–1805)

  Scrooge, Ebenezer

  seasons, myth of the

  secondary qualities

  Semite, Semitic

  Seneca (4 B.C.–A.D. 65)

  sense perception

  sensory world

  sex, sexual, sexuality

  shadow images

  Shakespeare, William (1564–1616)

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792–1822)

  Silesius, Angelus (1624–1677)

  sin

  sins, forgiveness of

  skeptic, skepticism

  slave morality

  slave society

  Snorri Sturluson (1179–1241)

  social classes

  social criticism

  social democracy

  socialism

  Socrates (470–399 B.C.)

  solar system

  Solomon (d. c. 936 B.C.)

  Sophia

  Sophist

  Sophocles (c. 496–406 B.C.)

  soul

  soul, body and

  speculation

  Spinoza, Baruch (1632–1677)

  spiritualism

  state

  static

  Steffens, Henrik (1773–1845)

  Steinbeck, John (1902–1968)

  Stoic, stoicism

  subjective truth

  substance

  Surrealism, surrealist

  syncretism

  synthesis

  tabula rasa

  technical, technology

  telepathy

  telescope

  Thales of Miletus (c. 625–c. 545 B.C.)

  theater

  theology

  Thirty Years’ War

  Thor

  Thrym, Lay of

  Thucydides (c. 460–400 B.C.)

  time and space

  tragedy

  transcendent

  trauma

  truth

  Tyr

  tyranny

  unconscious, the

  United Nations

  universal romanticism

  universe

  Utgard

  utopian

  values, priority of

  vanity

  variation

  Veda scriptures

  Venus

  video

  Vinje, Aasmund O. (1818–1870)

  virus

  vision

  Vivekananda, Swami (1862–1902)

  Voltaire (1694–1778)

  Wergeland, Henrik (1808–1845)

  witch hunts

  women, equality of

  work, worker

  Xenophanes of Colophon (c. 570–480 B.C.)

  Xerxes, king of Persia (519–465 B.C.)

  Yule, yuletide

  Zeno of Citium (c. 335–c. 263 B.C.)

  Zeus

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  Originally published in Norwegian under the title Sofies verden, copyright © 1991 by H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), Oslo

  Originally published in English in 1994 in the United States by

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