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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... liberty of conscience ; when liberty of conscience is entire it includes civil liberty . ” Though both liberties were far from entire when he wrote ( or for that matter are today ) he pointed to the fundamental connection that the ...
... liberty of conscience ; when liberty of conscience is entire it includes civil liberty . ” Though both liberties were far from entire when he wrote ( or for that matter are today ) he pointed to the fundamental connection that the ...
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... liberty . " Although his theory rested on the ancient idea of the social contract , Locke gave this idea a new twist by interpreting it in the light of English experience . He insisted more emphatically that government rested on the ...
... liberty . " Although his theory rested on the ancient idea of the social contract , Locke gave this idea a new twist by interpreting it in the light of English experience . He insisted more emphatically that government rested on the ...
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... liberty - liberty as the necessary condition of political virtue . He made such a point of the balance of powers be- cause any absolute rule seemed to him corrupt in principle , fatal to political virtue . In this spirit he argued that ...
... liberty - liberty as the necessary condition of political virtue . He made such a point of the balance of powers be- cause any absolute rule seemed to him corrupt in principle , fatal to political virtue . In this spirit he argued that ...
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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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