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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... sense of the earlier communes , encouraged self - seeking in a no longer independent citizenry . As for Florence ... sense of mystery and suffering in the bulk of this art , little pity or terror ; of the greater Florentines only Michel ...
... sense of the earlier communes , encouraged self - seeking in a no longer independent citizenry . As for Florence ... sense of mystery and suffering in the bulk of this art , little pity or terror ; of the greater Florentines only Michel ...
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... sense as well as revered authority . Their genius was most apparent in their triumph over com- mon sense , beginning with the preposterous theory that the earth traveled around the sun . Galileo expressed a boundless marvel over the ...
... sense as well as revered authority . Their genius was most apparent in their triumph over com- mon sense , beginning with the preposterous theory that the earth traveled around the sun . Galileo expressed a boundless marvel over the ...
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... sense of the natural inconstancies and inconsistencies of man , or Pascal's sense of the basic paradoxes of the human condition . Even short of the extravagances of Condorcet , accordingly , their faith in the progress and ...
... sense of the natural inconstancies and inconsistencies of man , or Pascal's sense of the basic paradoxes of the human condition . Even short of the extravagances of Condorcet , accordingly , their faith in the progress and ...
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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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