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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... society to devote so much more wealth and energy to the service of its God than modern society does . Only a bigot or an utter sentimentalist can overlook the pride , greed , lust , hate , and cruelty that ran through the whole society ...
... society to devote so much more wealth and energy to the service of its God than modern society does . Only a bigot or an utter sentimentalist can overlook the pride , greed , lust , hate , and cruelty that ran through the whole society ...
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... society , past or present . It seems stranger in a Christian society , in which death presumably meant a blessed reunion with one's Creator , an escape from a world commonly described as a vale of tears ; for if death might also mean ...
... society , past or present . It seems stranger in a Christian society , in which death presumably meant a blessed reunion with one's Creator , an escape from a world commonly described as a vale of tears ; for if death might also mean ...
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... Society was busy weighing air . ) They soon started publishing papers , like the Philo- sophical Transactions of the Royal Society , thereby making their find- ings promptly available to inquirers elsewhere . Incidentally they made it ...
... Society was busy weighing air . ) They soon started publishing papers , like the Philo- sophical Transactions of the Royal Society , thereby making their find- ings promptly available to inquirers elsewhere . Incidentally they made it ...
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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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