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100	1		_aNicolson, Adam, _d1957- _eauthor. _9256475
245	1	0	_aHow to be : _blife lessons from the early Greeks / _cAdam Nicolson.
250			_aFirst American edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bFarrar, Straus and Giroux, _c2023.
264		4	_c©2023.
300			_a356 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations (some color), maps ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 295-341) and index.
520			_a"Adam Nicolson crafts a geography of the ancient world and a brilliant exploration of our connections to the past"-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0		_aIntroduction: Philosophy has a geography -- Harbour minds -- Must I think my own way through the world? -- What is existence made of? -- How to be me -- Is politeness a virtue? -- If life a fire? -- Is the world full of souls? -- Can I live in multiple realities? -- Does love rule the universe?
520			_aBefore the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests. Twenty-five hundred years ago, in a succession of small eastern Mediterranean harbor cities, a few heroic men and women decided to cast off mental subservience and apply their own thinking minds to the conundrums of life. These great innovators shaped the beginnings of western 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. On the Aegean island of Lesbos, the early lyric poets Sappho and Alcaeus asked themselves, "How can I be true to myself?" On Samos, Pythagoras imagined an everlasting soul and took his ideas to Italy, where they flowered again in surprising and radical forms. The award-winning writer Adam Nicolson travels with us through this transforming world and asks what light these ancient thinkers can throw on our deepest preconceptions. Enhanced with maps, photographs, and artwork, How to Be is an expedition into early ideas. Nicolson takes us to the dawn of investigative thought and makes the fundamental questions of the ancient philosophers new again. What are the principles of the physical world? How can we be good in it? And why do we continue to ask these questions? It is an enthralling, exhilarating journey.
650		0	_aPhilosophy, Ancient _xInfluence.
650		0	_aExistential phenomenology. _9165616
650		0	_aConduct of life. _98518
651		0	_aGreece _xIntellectual life _yTo 146 B.C.
651		0	_aGreece _xAntiquities. _925630
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