{"product_id":"how-to-be","title":"How to Be","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1rem; color: #1f2124; font-family: -apple-system,'system-ui','San Francisco','Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003ePublished: UK, 2023\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003eLanguages: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 358\u003cbr\u003eISBN 13: 9780008490782\u003cbr\u003eISBN 10: 0008490783\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Adam Nicolson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44722189697290,"sku":"","price":32.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9780008490782.jpg?v=1694958293","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/how-to-be","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}