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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... thought and speech . The struggle for such freedom necessarily began as a revolt against ecclesiastical authority.1 Short of outright persecution , the Church tended to limit effective freedom of thought by the essential dogmatism ...
... thought and speech . The struggle for such freedom necessarily began as a revolt against ecclesiastical authority.1 Short of outright persecution , the Church tended to limit effective freedom of thought by the essential dogmatism ...
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... thought of the cloistered German professor . The greatest philosopher to come directly out of the Enlightenment , Kant most clearly and fully exemplifies its basic continuity - the solid core of its faith in reason and rejection of any ...
... thought of the cloistered German professor . The greatest philosopher to come directly out of the Enlightenment , Kant most clearly and fully exemplifies its basic continuity - the solid core of its faith in reason and rejection of any ...
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... Thought Before the Revolutions In the prevailing complacence over their Constitution , English think- ers were naturally least disposed to herald the political revolution in which the eighteenth century culminated . At its liveliest ...
... Thought Before the Revolutions In the prevailing complacence over their Constitution , English think- ers were naturally least disposed to herald the political revolution in which the eighteenth century culminated . At its liveliest ...
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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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