By rec­om­men­da­tion I read Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder. It is a nov­el about the his­to­ry of phi­los­o­phy, writ­ten in such a way the the con­cepts from the pre-Socrat­ics through Kant and up to Sartre could be grasped by a juve­nile. Spoil­ers past the jump.
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