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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... political theory because the authors of Scripture had no interest in such theory . More clearly than Machiavelli , he forced the basic issues of political philosophy , beyond practical politics . Thereby he facilitated the rise of more ...
... political theory because the authors of Scripture had no interest in such theory . More clearly than Machiavelli , he forced the basic issues of political philosophy , beyond practical politics . Thereby he facilitated the rise of more ...
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... political thought usually centered on party politics , a choice between the Tory and Whig oligarchies . Some radical ideas that did get into print , with the agitation for parliamentary reform that began in the last decades of the ...
... political thought usually centered on party politics , a choice between the Tory and Whig oligarchies . Some radical ideas that did get into print , with the agitation for parliamentary reform that began in the last decades of the ...
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... political virtue . He made such a point of the balance of powers be- cause any absolute rule seemed to him corrupt in principle , fatal to political virtue . In this spirit he argued that the common people should have some say in the ...
... political virtue . He made such a point of the balance of powers be- cause any absolute rule seemed to him corrupt in principle , fatal to political virtue . In this spirit he argued that the common people should have some say in the ...
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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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