How to Be
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A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR What is the nature of things? Must I think
my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How
should we treat each other? Before the Greeks, the idea of the
world was dominated by god-kings and their priests, in a life ruled
by imagined metaphysical monsters. 2,500 years ago, in a succession
of small eastern Mediterranean harbour-cities, that way of thinking
began to change. Men (and some women) decided to cast off mental
subservience and apply their own worrying and thinking minds to the
conundrums of life. These great innovators shaped the beginnings of
philosophy. Through the questioning voyager Odysseus, Homer
explored how we might navigate our way through the world.
Heraclitus in Ephesus was the first to consider the
interrelatedness of things. Xenophanes of Colophon was the first
champion of civility. In Lesbos, the Aegean island of Sappho and
Alcaeus, the early lyric poets asked themselves ‘How can I be true
to myself?’ In Samos, Pythagoras imagined an everlasting soul and
took his ideas to Italy where they flowered again in surprising and
radical forms. Prize-winning and bestselling writer Adam Nicolson
travels through this transforming world and asks what light these
ancient thinkers can throw on our deepest preconceptions. Sparkling
with maps, photographs and artwork, How to Be is a journey into the
origins of Western thought. Hugely formative ideas emerged in these
harbour-cities: fluidity of mind, the search for coherence, a need
for the just city, a recognition of the mutability of things, a
belief in the reality of the ideal ? all became the Greeks’ legacy
to the world. Born out of a rough, dynamic?and often cruel? moment
in human history, it was the dawn of enquiry, where these
fundamental questions about self, city and cosmos, asked for the
first time, became, as they remain, the unlikely bedrock of
understanding.
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