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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From the Dark Ages to the Rise of Democracy Herbert Joseph Muller. Prologue THE RISE AND FALL OF ISLAM It might well seem Western conceit that reduces the history of Islam to a mere prologue to the history of Europe . Certainly there is ...
From the Dark Ages to the Rise of Democracy Herbert Joseph Muller. Prologue THE RISE AND FALL OF ISLAM It might well seem Western conceit that reduces the history of Islam to a mere prologue to the history of Europe . Certainly there is ...
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... rise of civilization . Again wealth and power went to the few , at consid- erable expense of freedom and justice to the many . Only so , it would again appear , can a society rise above barbarism . A ruling class that may squander the ...
... rise of civilization . Again wealth and power went to the few , at consid- erable expense of freedom and justice to the many . Only so , it would again appear , can a society rise above barbarism . A ruling class that may squander the ...
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... rise of in the Middle Ages , 51 , 72-80 , 84 , 86-87 , 126 ; the connections of with the Renaissance , 79 , 111 , 112 ; and the Reformation , 153-54 ; and the eco- nomic revolution of the sixteenth century , 191-94 , 198 ; and the rise ...
... rise of in the Middle Ages , 51 , 72-80 , 84 , 86-87 , 126 ; the connections of with the Renaissance , 79 , 111 , 112 ; and the Reformation , 153-54 ; and the eco- nomic revolution of the sixteenth century , 191-94 , 198 ; and the rise ...
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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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