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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... inspired to make his kingdom worthy of it , bringing poets and scholars to court and exhorting churchmen to ... inspire . They commonly blind men to their own original achievements , and to the new problems arising from them ...
... inspired to make his kingdom worthy of it , bringing poets and scholars to court and exhorting churchmen to ... inspire . They commonly blind men to their own original achievements , and to the new problems arising from them ...
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... inspire a sense of mystery and awe , he pictured man and nature more freely as he saw them , with more attention to ... inspired , Giotto set the tradition for the great age of Florence . He was a practical , civic- minded man , who ...
... inspire a sense of mystery and awe , he pictured man and nature more freely as he saw them , with more attention to ... inspired , Giotto set the tradition for the great age of Florence . He was a practical , civic- minded man , who ...
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... inspired the most creative thought of the age , the growth of modern philosophy and science . Most directly it inspired fine art and belles - lettres , which now became most purely the property of a ruling class . While the reigning ...
... inspired the most creative thought of the age , the growth of modern philosophy and science . Most directly it inspired fine art and belles - lettres , which now became most purely the property of a ruling class . While the reigning ...
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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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