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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... social or political equality in life ; they took for granted a hierarchical social order , corresponding to the order of the Church , which logically implied a principle of natural inequality , and which effectively kept most men in ...
... social or political equality in life ; they took for granted a hierarchical social order , corresponding to the order of the Church , which logically implied a principle of natural inequality , and which effectively kept most men in ...
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... social and political achievements of the medieval town , in time its rule became a purer oligarchy . Its oppressive tendencies , cou- pled with the recurrence of work stoppages , bred increasing social dis- content ; we hear of ...
... social and political achievements of the medieval town , in time its rule became a purer oligarchy . Its oppressive tendencies , cou- pled with the recurrence of work stoppages , bred increasing social dis- content ; we hear of ...
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... social contract at all , since men came to know of conscious rights and liberties only after they had agreed to this imaginary contract , and he insisted that the government was no party to it . Despite this inconsistency , he was ...
... social contract at all , since men came to know of conscious rights and liberties only after they had agreed to this imaginary contract , and he insisted that the government was no party to it . Despite this inconsistency , he was ...
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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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