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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... called “ spiritual freedom , " and that further complicates my subject ; with it went a religious tolerance that Europe would achieve only after centuries of strife . Still , such " spiritual freedom " also helps to explain why they ...
... called “ spiritual freedom , " and that further complicates my subject ; with it went a religious tolerance that Europe would achieve only after centuries of strife . Still , such " spiritual freedom " also helps to explain why they ...
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... called be- cause of the stone axes found in their graves , were herdsmen who came in from the east about 2000 B.C. and spread over northern and central Europe . They were almost certainly Indo - Europeans , the first to arrive of these ...
... called be- cause of the stone axes found in their graves , were herdsmen who came in from the east about 2000 B.C. and spread over northern and central Europe . They were almost certainly Indo - Europeans , the first to arrive of these ...
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... called for universal suffrage , which would have been hopelessly impractical . The problems faced by Joseph II explain why the philosophes generally put their faith in reform from above , or government for rather than by the people ...
... called for universal suffrage , which would have been hopelessly impractical . The problems faced by Joseph II explain why the philosophes generally put their faith in reform from above , or government for rather than by the people ...
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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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