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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... apparent sympathy , and the rising science trumpeted by Francis Bacon , in which he took no apparent interest . Yet these various cur- rents , which in leading away from him alike led to simplified views of the nature and condition of ...
... apparent sympathy , and the rising science trumpeted by Francis Bacon , in which he took no apparent interest . Yet these various cur- rents , which in leading away from him alike led to simplified views of the nature and condition of ...
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... apparent failure of the Cartesians to bridge the gap between matter and mind , or by the double standard of truth that scientific thinkers were operating on ; for ever since St. Paul Christians had been accus- tomed to a radical dualism ...
... apparent failure of the Cartesians to bridge the gap between matter and mind , or by the double standard of truth that scientific thinkers were operating on ; for ever since St. Paul Christians had been accus- tomed to a radical dualism ...
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... apparent difference it had made in the English character ; he pointed to the basic fact of cultural diversity , with its implication of the power of custom or " second nature " ; he pointed to a similar diver- sity by his stress upon ...
... apparent difference it had made in the English character ; he pointed to the basic fact of cultural diversity , with its implication of the power of custom or " second nature " ; he pointed to a similar diver- sity by his stress upon ...
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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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