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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... equality and brotherhood . It is perhaps more emphatic in the gospel according to Mohammed , if only because all men alike were dwarfed by the transcendent mightiness of Allah ; Maude Royden went so far as to say that Islam " proclaimed ...
... equality and brotherhood . It is perhaps more emphatic in the gospel according to Mohammed , if only because all men alike were dwarfed by the transcendent mightiness of Allah ; Maude Royden went so far as to say that Islam " proclaimed ...
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... equality — an equality in death , not a social or political equality in life ; they took for granted a hierarchical social order , corresponding to the order of the Church , which logically implied a principle of natural inequality ...
... equality — an equality in death , not a social or political equality in life ; they took for granted a hierarchical social order , corresponding to the order of the Church , which logically implied a principle of natural inequality ...
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... equality . The sophisticated Jean de Meun anticipated Rousseau by describing an egalitarian " state of nature ” in his immensely popular Roman de la Rose . Above all , some of the lowly began taking seriously a more demo- cratic idea of ...
... equality . The sophisticated Jean de Meun anticipated Rousseau by describing an egalitarian " state of nature ” in his immensely popular Roman de la Rose . Above all , some of the lowly began taking seriously a more demo- cratic idea of ...
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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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