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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... natural world , the apparent sum of Greek science . The empirical premises of St. Thomas could and did survive all criticism of his theological superstructure , as well as the later efforts of his Church to stand on dogmas that ...
... natural world , the apparent sum of Greek science . The empirical premises of St. Thomas could and did survive all criticism of his theological superstructure , as well as the later efforts of his Church to stand on dogmas that ...
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... natural law , and the modern corollary of natural rights . In the same spirit men sought out the princi- ples of " natural morality " and " natural religion , " always equating " natural " with " rational . " Hence another ancient Greek ...
... natural law , and the modern corollary of natural rights . In the same spirit men sought out the princi- ples of " natural morality " and " natural religion , " always equating " natural " with " rational . " Hence another ancient Greek ...
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... natural rights of man . Worse , their honorific term " natural " was for practical purposes not only vague but dangerously ambiguous . All the custom they deplored as unnatural might as properly be called natural , since it was much ...
... natural rights of man . Worse , their honorific term " natural " was for practical purposes not only vague but dangerously ambiguous . All the custom they deplored as unnatural might as properly be called natural , since it was much ...
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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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