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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... rule . Such basic simplicities , together with its insistent ethic , made the gos- pel of Mohammed an admirable one for rude peoples like his own . It could at once inspire , uplift , and discipline them , on the record more readily ...
... rule . Such basic simplicities , together with its insistent ethic , made the gos- pel of Mohammed an admirable one for rude peoples like his own . It could at once inspire , uplift , and discipline them , on the record more readily ...
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... Rule for monastic life , exemplifying a Roman as well as a Christian spirit . Whereas holy men in the East had been prone to an extreme asceticism , when not to the life of the hermit , the Benedictine Rule was essentially social , call ...
... Rule for monastic life , exemplifying a Roman as well as a Christian spirit . Whereas holy men in the East had been prone to an extreme asceticism , when not to the life of the hermit , the Benedictine Rule was essentially social , call ...
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... rule as a natural aristocrat , without the trappings of rank or royalty . He was as enlightened as generous a patron of letters and the arts , commissioning the likes of Brunelleschi and Donatello , opening the first important public ...
... rule as a natural aristocrat , without the trappings of rank or royalty . He was as enlightened as generous a patron of letters and the arts , commissioning the likes of Brunelleschi and Donatello , opening the first important public ...
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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