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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... spirit - the spirit of free in- quiry and criticism , by rational standards . Islam succumbed to its her- itage from the ancient East . As it succumbed , the Greek spirit was growing more active in Europe , then entering the Renaissance ...
... spirit - the spirit of free in- quiry and criticism , by rational standards . Islam succumbed to its her- itage from the ancient East . As it succumbed , the Greek spirit was growing more active in Europe , then entering the Renaissance ...
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... spirit — the essential itch . The pioneers in astronomy , from Copernicus to Newton , were hardly inspired by economic motives as they achieved the first great triumph of modern science . No sensible bourgeois would have ventured such ...
... spirit — the essential itch . The pioneers in astronomy , from Copernicus to Newton , were hardly inspired by economic motives as they achieved the first great triumph of modern science . No sensible bourgeois would have ventured such ...
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... spirit . Among the conspicuous examples were the self - styled Economists or Physiocrats , led by Quesnay , author of a few articles on economics in the Encyclopedia . Quesnay was a major influ- ence on Adam Smith , who in The Wealth of ...
... spirit . Among the conspicuous examples were the self - styled Economists or Physiocrats , led by Quesnay , author of a few articles on economics in the Encyclopedia . Quesnay was a major influ- ence on Adam Smith , who in The Wealth of ...
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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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