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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... Royal Society was busy weighing air . ) They soon started publishing papers , like the Philo- sophical Transactions of the Royal Society , thereby making their find- ings promptly available to inquirers elsewhere . Incidentally they ...
... Royal Society was busy weighing air . ) They soon started publishing papers , like the Philo- sophical Transactions of the Royal Society , thereby making their find- ings promptly available to inquirers elsewhere . Incidentally they ...
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... royal prerogatives . Before ascending the throne James I had written his True Law of Free Monarchies , maintaining that monarchs ruled by divine right and were responsible only to God , and he made it clear to his first Parliament that ...
... royal prerogatives . Before ascending the throne James I had written his True Law of Free Monarchies , maintaining that monarchs ruled by divine right and were responsible only to God , and he made it clear to his first Parliament that ...
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... royal court ( not to mention the indiscretions of Marie Antoinette , who was never so dear to her people as she became to Edmund Burke ) . Most failed to appreciate its serious efforts at reform . While a series of royal ministers ...
... royal court ( not to mention the indiscretions of Marie Antoinette , who was never so dear to her people as she became to Edmund Burke ) . Most failed to appreciate its serious efforts at reform . While a series of royal ministers ...
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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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