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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... economic activ- ity had always been subordinated to noneconomic ends , some notion of the common good . Sixteenth - century Europe was beginning to evolve a predominantly economic society , governed by the struggle for wealth . Business ...
... economic activ- ity had always been subordinated to noneconomic ends , some notion of the common good . Sixteenth - century Europe was beginning to evolve a predominantly economic society , governed by the struggle for wealth . Business ...
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... economic life , seeking to avoid the shocking contradictions between medieval theory and practice . In giving his blessing to the economic virtues of enterprise and industry he like- wise sought to dedicate them to the service of God ...
... economic life , seeking to avoid the shocking contradictions between medieval theory and practice . In giving his blessing to the economic virtues of enterprise and industry he like- wise sought to dedicate them to the service of God ...
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... economic and class interests , but neglected to make a revolution . The plain influence that the English had on subsequent political history , particularly in France and America , was due most obviously to the principles they thought ...
... economic and class interests , but neglected to make a revolution . The plain influence that the English had on subsequent political history , particularly in France and America , was due most obviously to the principles they thought ...
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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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