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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... nobility in every coun- try , the principle of aristocracy not only permeated Europe but was gaining political strength . As the upper class now had a high culture— interests generally spurned by the feudal barons of the Middle Ages ...
... nobility in every coun- try , the principle of aristocracy not only permeated Europe but was gaining political strength . As the upper class now had a high culture— interests generally spurned by the feudal barons of the Middle Ages ...
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... nobility was most vulnerable to criticism since it was based on an enforced , not a natural inequality of men , and many of its members were obviously not superior in personal merit or intelligence . It contributed a good deal to the ...
... nobility was most vulnerable to criticism since it was based on an enforced , not a natural inequality of men , and many of its members were obviously not superior in personal merit or intelligence . It contributed a good deal to the ...
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... nobility . The nobility was indeed serving as a bulwark against absolutism ; but it brings up the confusions and anomalies that long obscured the basic issues of the Revolution . Although this was not a homogeneous class , ranging from ...
... nobility . The nobility was indeed serving as a bulwark against absolutism ; but it brings up the confusions and anomalies that long obscured the basic issues of the Revolution . Although this was not a homogeneous class , ranging from ...
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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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