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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... tradition of " miracle , mystery , and authority " that Dostoyevsky's Grand Inquisitor held to be the supreme need ... tradition of miracle , beginning with Scripture . Gregory the Great had incorporated this whole tradition when laying ...
... tradition of " miracle , mystery , and authority " that Dostoyevsky's Grand Inquisitor held to be the supreme need ... tradition of miracle , beginning with Scripture . Gregory the Great had incorporated this whole tradition when laying ...
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... tradition was enriched by the impassioned love of liberty ex- pressed by such men as Boccaccio and Salutati , a chancellor of the republic . When finally the Medici did impose a virtual tyranny in the following century , they were less ...
... tradition was enriched by the impassioned love of liberty ex- pressed by such men as Boccaccio and Salutati , a chancellor of the republic . When finally the Medici did impose a virtual tyranny in the following century , they were less ...
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... tradition — the essential principle of con- servatism . The plain difficulty with any given tradition is that it is a mixed affair , inviting rational criticism because it embalms not only the tested wisdom of the ancestors but some ...
... tradition — the essential principle of con- servatism . The plain difficulty with any given tradition is that it is a mixed affair , inviting rational criticism because it embalms not only the tested wisdom of the ancestors but some ...
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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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