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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... effect of Mohammed's teaching about pre- destination . As a fervent missionary , he was bound to imply now and then that men were free , responsible agents , able to save their own souls . More often and more plainly he preached that ...
... effect of Mohammed's teaching about pre- destination . As a fervent missionary , he was bound to imply now and then that men were free , responsible agents , able to save their own souls . More often and more plainly he preached that ...
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... effect , or that they could have only a harmful effect . The concep- tion of a civilization - the gleam in some eyes - may be as important as its birth . Medieval men were unquestionably inspired as well as con- fused by their fiction ...
... effect , or that they could have only a harmful effect . The concep- tion of a civilization - the gleam in some eyes - may be as important as its birth . Medieval men were unquestionably inspired as well as con- fused by their fiction ...
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... effect and look important only in retrospect , like the lost cause of the Levellers . In their spirit Major John Cartwright attacked the idea that property was the main end of the social compact and the main qualification for a voice in ...
... effect and look important only in retrospect , like the lost cause of the Levellers . In their spirit Major John Cartwright attacked the idea that property was the main end of the social compact and the main qualification for a voice in ...
Inhalt
The Rise and Fall of Islam | 1 |
THE ORIGINS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION | 25 |
The Medieval Sources of Freedom | 47 |
Urheberrecht | |
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