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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... practical , in keeping with the tradition and the economic development of Europe . Long greedy enough , Europeans were now roused because the Ottoman Empire sat on the overland trade route to the East and its spices , treasured as both ...
... practical , in keeping with the tradition and the economic development of Europe . Long greedy enough , Europeans were now roused because the Ottoman Empire sat on the overland trade route to the East and its spices , treasured as both ...
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... practical concerns . As it turned out to be the greatest power that man had yet discovered it became the supreme demonstra- tion of the value of " mere " theory , which hardheaded men continued to scorn . ( So a secretary of defense in ...
... practical concerns . As it turned out to be the greatest power that man had yet discovered it became the supreme demonstra- tion of the value of " mere " theory , which hardheaded men continued to scorn . ( So a secretary of defense in ...
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... 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 older and more nearly universal than the unhistorical standards they set up ...
... 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 older and more nearly universal than the unhistorical standards they set up ...
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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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