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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... look back nostalgically to the " Age of Faith , " and why many others who are afflu- ent and politically free may not look or act like free men . So it is well to begin this ambiguous history by dwelling on the violent contradic- tions ...
... look back nostalgically to the " Age of Faith , " and why many others who are afflu- ent and politically free may not look or act like free men . So it is well to begin this ambiguous history by dwelling on the violent contradic- tions ...
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... look like slaves to it . There was less apparent freedom of spirit in the rising capitalist class than the Medici had enjoyed , or the medieval burghers . By their economic individualism they were creating a new aristocracy of wealth ...
... look like slaves to it . There was less apparent freedom of spirit in the rising capitalist class than the Medici had enjoyed , or the medieval burghers . By their economic individualism they were creating a new aristocracy of wealth ...
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... look as obsolete as the Holy Roman Empire he put a decent end to . Thus the Prussian state fashioned by Frederick the Great , which collapsed ingloriously after the disastrous battle of Jena , responded by putting through a series of ...
... look as obsolete as the Holy Roman Empire he put a decent end to . Thus the Prussian state fashioned by Frederick the Great , which collapsed ingloriously after the disastrous battle of Jena , responded by putting through a series of ...
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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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