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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... theory about the universe . Shakespeare may be forgiven his indif- ference . While the Copernican theory deeply impressed a few men of scientific bent , such as Kepler and Galileo , it had otherwise very little influence on sixteenth ...
... theory about the universe . Shakespeare may be forgiven his indif- ference . While the Copernican theory deeply impressed a few men of scientific bent , such as Kepler and Galileo , it had otherwise very little influence on sixteenth ...
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... theory of gravitation as the supreme work of genius in all history to his time , and certainly he had very great qualities of mind , far more exceptional than Christopher Columbus had ; yet it seems likely that some man was bound to ...
... theory of gravitation as the supreme work of genius in all history to his time , and certainly he had very great qualities of mind , far more exceptional than Christopher Columbus had ; yet it seems likely that some man was bound to ...
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... theory was much less elegant than Newton's theory of gravitation . It lacked a comprehensive formula , leaving chemists with some ninety - odd kinds of matter - not to mention what physicists have now done to the once substantial atom ...
... theory was much less elegant than Newton's theory of gravitation . It lacked a comprehensive formula , leaving chemists with some ninety - odd kinds of matter - not to mention what physicists have now done to the once substantial atom ...
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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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