The Descartes and Spinoza chapters in Sophie's World very much connect to what we have been discussing in class, because the majority of our conversations have had to do with fate vs freewill, reality, or religion. These philosophers touch on all of the above criteria. In class, some people have had similar views to Descartes, where by thinking we are indeed real and also have a form of free will, and some have had more similarities to Spinoza by seeing us as a direct piece of God and having only God's plan to guide us through our lives. Some people in our class also agree with both of the two when it comes to doubting what we can't explain and believe if what we can with reason, and others have looked at it in more of a theological way, by depending on fate rather than reason. The majority of our class has also taken the side of Spinoza on the issue of the Bible. Spinoza was the first to truest critique the Bible, and I think that many of my class mates would agree with him. Our class is made up of many agnostics or atheists, and I believe that many people see the Bible to have little credibility. The two philosophers that we have most recently read about, directly connect to our class discussions and the real world! From what we have discussed in class and read in the book, I have started to think of many examples in the real world. People believing they have complete free will or thinking they follow God's path. People believing anything that they are told or that their senses tell them or people choosing to only believe reasonable and logical things. A lot of our discussions in class and a lot of the teachings of the two philosophers in the book directly relate to some of the groupings of people in today's society.