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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... less agreeable name of bureaucracy , which feudal society had managed without , this society had therefore had to manage without extensive public works or an orderly economy either . At any rate , Colbert made France the first really ...
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... less faith in the power of reason than did the philosophes , and was less popular with them than he was with later conservatives . But even so he was a major precursor of the Enlighten- ment . Montesquieu typified the social , political ...
... less faith in the power of reason than did the philosophes , and was less popular with them than he was with later conservatives . But even so he was a major precursor of the Enlighten- ment . Montesquieu typified the social , political ...
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... less crusted tradition than the aristocracy of Europe , the American ruling class proved less stubbornly conservative , or more enlightened in self- interest . The task of the Constitutional Convention was properly a conservative one in ...
... less crusted tradition than the aristocracy of Europe , the American ruling class proved less stubbornly conservative , or more enlightened in self- interest . The task of the Constitutional Convention was properly a conservative one in ...
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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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