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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... things that are Caesar's , and unto God the things that are God's . " It was a profoundly ambiguous , fateful statement . It could be used , as through most of Christian history it was , to justify Caesarism or absolute mon- archy ; it ...
... things that are Caesar's , and unto God the things that are God's . " It was a profoundly ambiguous , fateful statement . It could be used , as through most of Christian history it was , to justify Caesarism or absolute mon- archy ; it ...
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... things than the ancients and things more distant , but this is due neither to the sharp- ness of our own sight nor the greatness of our own stature , but to that giant mass on which we are raised and borne aloft . " By now we can see ...
... things than the ancients and things more distant , but this is due neither to the sharp- ness of our own sight nor the greatness of our own stature , but to that giant mass on which we are raised and borne aloft . " By now we can see ...
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... things possible . " The men of Renaissance Florence would have applauded his superb assurances : " I stake all on the victory of art over nature in the race . " In habitually stressing power , Bacon was not only speaking the lan- guage ...
... things possible . " The men of Renaissance Florence would have applauded his superb assurances : " I stake all on the victory of art over nature in the race . " In habitually stressing power , Bacon was not only speaking the lan- guage ...
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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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