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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... rational standards of justice : as a good God he would never deliber- ately create evil , predestine his creatures to eternal damnation . They insisted that men were free agents , themselves responsible for the good and evil they did ...
... rational standards of justice : as a good God he would never deliber- ately create evil , predestine his creatures to eternal damnation . They insisted that men were free agents , themselves responsible for the good and evil they did ...
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... rational men could agree upon , as they never can upon the higher religions or the grand philosophical systems . At ... rationale they were operating on was due immediately to its indisputable success . There remains the plain truth that ...
... rational men could agree upon , as they never can upon the higher religions or the grand philosophical systems . At ... rationale they were operating on was due immediately to its indisputable success . There remains the plain truth that ...
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... rational standards . As unmistakably it effected an emanci- pation of mind , by not only an actual freedom in thought , a fundamen- tal criticism of traditional belief , but a declared principle of freedom of thought , a militant ideal ...
... rational standards . As unmistakably it effected an emanci- pation of mind , by not only an actual freedom in thought , a fundamen- tal criticism of traditional belief , but a declared principle of freedom of thought , a militant ideal ...
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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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