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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... least thought they had Luther behind them . " All privileges shall be done away , " Michael Geismayr proposed , " as they are con- trary to the Word of God , and distort the law which declares that no one shall suffer from the misdeeds ...
... least thought they had Luther behind them . " All privileges shall be done away , " Michael Geismayr proposed , " as they are con- trary to the Word of God , and distort the law which declares that no one shall suffer from the misdeeds ...
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... least from the Newtonian era on , in effect they conceived it as a sudden , belated leap into a state that man should always have enjoyed . They had not only little knowledge of the long ages during which man achieved whatever progress ...
... least from the Newtonian era on , in effect they conceived it as a sudden , belated leap into a state that man should always have enjoyed . They had not only little knowledge of the long ages during which man achieved whatever progress ...
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... least disposed to herald the political revolution in which the eighteenth century culminated . At its liveliest , political thought usually centered on party politics , a choice between the Tory and Whig oligarchies . Some radical ideas ...
... least disposed to herald the political revolution in which the eighteenth century culminated . At its liveliest , political thought usually centered on party politics , a choice between the Tory and Whig oligarchies . Some radical ideas ...
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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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