Aristotle’s views on women are completely different than the way women are viewed today. It is a shame that someone with such great knowledge could be so inconsiderate about an important issue like this. It is also very upsetting, honestly. He basically said that women were inferior to men, and said that we were “incomplete” on page 115. Also, he said that women don’t contribute to the birth process. He said that women just receives the seed and conceives the baby, and the man creates the form and has all the characteristics that the child will receive. I thought this was an unfair thought because we are just as capable as men, especially in creating a child. I think it was favoritism because he himself was a man. Women have just as much potential as men as well. His thinking created a lot of false opinions about women, and it definitely made men give women less respect and rights.

            I think that Plato had admirable answers to questions about gender. Plato thought that women were equal to men. He said that women have the same powers as men, as long as they have the same education and training.

            I feel like the fact that the authorities in this novel are men is unfair and sexist, but it is understandable because back then the world was basically ruled by men. Women are capable of expressing their opinions and beliefs. Back then we were basically just slaves, sentenced to producing children and being housewives. I know that men were probably more knowledgeable back then, but that was only because they were given the opportunities to learn and create their own opinions. If women would have been given those opportunities, I’m sure they would have been extremely effective thinkers of that time period.

Many philosophers have struggled to answer questions like "Who am I?" and "Where did I come from?" which is explained in Sophie's World. They are both difficult concepts to comprehend when there are so many interpretations that people preach. You simply cannot just Google the answers to these questions. We truly can never know where we came from or who we are. We just believe in something that has no proof. We all have our own interpretations of who we are and where we think we came from.

I haven't quite figured myself out yet. As far as I know, I'm just a single person on this planet. My name is Abbey Elizabeth Morrison, and I was born on August 20^th, 1997. I am involved with figure skating, dancing, lacrosse, bowling, and color guard.  I think peoples' faith and goals play a big part in who they are. People can apply their faith in times of happiness or despair. Goals have a huge part to do with ones determination to succeed in whatever they do, such as high school. I want to be an architectural engineer. I plan to go to Purdue or Penn State after I graduate high school to get my college degree. Having this goal in place gives me motivation to try as hard as I possibly can in high school to succeed with my GPA in order to get into the college I want to. Determination says a lot about someone's character.

When I think about where I came from, I get confused. I was raised to be catholic, but I still am not confident that what I have learned is what is actually true. I don't understand how one person could have the power to create the world and everything in it. How did he come about? Was there a God before him that gave him his powers? We don't know. We just believe. I'm the type of person that likes proof before I believe something. Therefore, it makes it hard to believe in a God who created all things. That is why I believe that science had a lot to do with the creation of the earth. Although, we will never know the real reason. That is why it is such a great philosophical question because it makes people think outside of the box about how the world really was created.

Honestly, I have never sat down and contemplated these questions until I read Sophie's World. I never thought about how we truly don't have proof of where we came from. Thinking about who I am in a more complex way than the obvious traits was something I struggled with. It's no wonder why philosophers have struggled with finding the answers to these questions all this time.