Freedom in the Western World: From the Dark Ages to the Rise of DemocracyHarper & Row, 1963 - 428 Seiten Herbert J. Muller examines the meaning of freedom in the great civilizations of the past including the Sumerian, Egyptian, Minoan, Assyrian, Persian, Phoenician, Greek, Roman and early Christian. Ranging from the attempts of the cave man to free himself from the tyranny of nature through magic and ritual, to the religious despotism of Byzantium, the author surveys freedom's gains and triumps, its losses and failures. In doing so, he provides the reader with new insight into the meaning and destiny of freedom in Western Civilization. |
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... parliament . No British invention , the Parliament that was to become the major political creation of England was at first no more designed as a citadel of liberty . It never met by initiative of the governed or by regular insti ...
... parliament . No British invention , the Parliament that was to become the major political creation of England was at first no more designed as a citadel of liberty . It never met by initiative of the governed or by regular insti ...
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... Parliament . Royalist nobles and dons might talk wildly of the absolute divine right of monarchs , but Charles II knew better . Although it re- mained unclear just how much authority Parliament had , he never tried to exercise all the ...
... Parliament . Royalist nobles and dons might talk wildly of the absolute divine right of monarchs , but Charles II knew better . Although it re- mained unclear just how much authority Parliament had , he never tried to exercise all the ...
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... Parliament , and that Parliament should be held frequently , election to it and debate within it should be free from any interference . This was all quite conservative , quite legal ; so Edmund Burke could rhapsodize over the most ...
... Parliament , and that Parliament should be held frequently , election to it and debate within it should be free from any interference . This was all quite conservative , quite legal ; so Edmund Burke could rhapsodize over the most ...
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The Rise and Fall of Islam | 1 |
THE Origins of WESTERN CIVILIZATION | 25 |
The Medieval Sources of Freedom | 47 |
Urheberrecht | |
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