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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... popular for the orthodox to suppress , it failed either to reform or to reinvigorate Islam . Beginning as a revulsion against the worldliness of the Abbasid caliphs , it tended to an unworld- liness that flourished on the social and ...
... popular for the orthodox to suppress , it failed either to reform or to reinvigorate Islam . Beginning as a revulsion against the worldliness of the Abbasid caliphs , it tended to an unworld- liness that flourished on the social and ...
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... popular tract on the Third Estate : " What is the Third Estate ? Everything . What has it been until now ? Nothing . What does it ask ? To be something . " Denied equality , it set about becoming everything . Its delegation refused to ...
... popular tract on the Third Estate : " What is the Third Estate ? Everything . What has it been until now ? Nothing . What does it ask ? To be something . " Denied equality , it set about becoming everything . Its delegation refused to ...
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... popular appeal . So by 1830 men were beginning to make more revolutions - revolutions that immediately almost always failed , but that nevertheless marked the advance of the popular cause . A simple measure of the historic change is ...
... popular appeal . So by 1830 men were beginning to make more revolutions - revolutions that immediately almost always failed , but that nevertheless marked the advance of the popular cause . A simple measure of the historic change is ...
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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