What is philosophy? A Greek philosopher who lived more than two thousand years ago believed that philosophy had its origin in people's sense of wonder. People naturally ask philosophical questions because they are trying to understand the meaning and purpose of life. It is like watching a magic trick. We cannot understand how it is done. So we ask: how can the magician change a couple of white silk scarves into a live rabbit? A lot of people experience the world with the same disbelief as when a magician suddenly pulls a rabbit out of a hat which they saw earlier was empty. In the case of the rabbit, we know the magician has tricked us. What we would like to know is just how he did it. But when it comes to the world and life, it is very different. We know that the world is not all a magician's trick because we are here in it, we are part of it. Actually, we are the white rabbit being pulled out of a hat. The only difference between us and the white rabbit is that the rabbit does not realise it is taking part in a magic trick. Unlike us. We feel we are part of something mysterious and we would like to know how it works. P.S. It might be better to compare the white rabbit with the whole universe. We who live here are microscopic insects existing in the rabbit's fur. But philosophers are always trying to climb up the fine hairs of the fur in order to look into the magician's eyes. Are you still there Sophie? To be continue afterwards, however, in fact, since, so they can, therefore, to start with, when, while
