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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... Americans have long been united in a conviction of the necessity , propriety , and beneficence of the American Revolution , there has been a growing disposition to regard it as not really a revolution at all - only a war of independence ...
... Americans have long been united in a conviction of the necessity , propriety , and beneficence of the American Revolution , there has been a growing disposition to regard it as not really a revolution at all - only a war of independence ...
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... Americans because they belonged to so many different sects . Religion was accordingly not a vital issue in the American Revolution , nor clearly a vital inspiration . “ It will never be pretended , " John Adams wrote later , " that the ...
... Americans because they belonged to so many different sects . Religion was accordingly not a vital issue in the American Revolution , nor clearly a vital inspiration . “ It will never be pretended , " John Adams wrote later , " that the ...
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... Americans . By the same token Americans were less disposed to reverence for authority , tradition , the past . That a custom or institution was old was not automatic proof that it was sound ; appeals to the wisdom of the ancestors ...
... Americans . By the same token Americans were less disposed to reverence for authority , tradition , the past . That a custom or institution was old was not automatic proof that it was sound ; appeals to the wisdom of the ancestors ...
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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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