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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... hope of a new start , a regeneration . This historic drama of redemption , visibly represented in Christian liturgy , helps to explain why there was very little quietism or fatalistic resignation throughout the Dark Ages . Now , in a ...
... hope of a new start , a regeneration . This historic drama of redemption , visibly represented in Christian liturgy , helps to explain why there was very little quietism or fatalistic resignation throughout the Dark Ages . Now , in a ...
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... hope of progress — the most novel social idea to come out of the scientific revolution . Though a consider- ably cooler type , Descartes also promised that by his method men could become " the lords and possessors of nature . " The ...
... hope of progress — the most novel social idea to come out of the scientific revolution . Though a consider- ably cooler type , Descartes also promised that by his method men could become " the lords and possessors of nature . " The ...
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... hope . " He called upon Americans to bury their private differences and their selfish interests because " the last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us , " and their failure would " seal the heresy that man is incapable of ...
... hope . " He called upon Americans to bury their private differences and their selfish interests because " the last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us , " and their failure would " seal the heresy that man is incapable 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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