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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... actual human freedom . In the bad times that lay ahead for Islam it could and did support a good deal of fatalistic resignation , instead of active effort to improve society or reform the state . It recalls us to an evident ab- surdity ...
... actual human freedom . In the bad times that lay ahead for Islam it could and did support a good deal of fatalistic resignation , instead of active effort to improve society or reform the state . It recalls us to an evident ab- surdity ...
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... actual decline one has only to look to the eastern half of the Roman Empire , which had not fallen when Rome did ; for whatever one thinks of the Byzantine Empire , no historian would deny it the name of civi- lization . We may disagree ...
... actual decline one has only to look to the eastern half of the Roman Empire , which had not fallen when Rome did ; for whatever one thinks of the Byzantine Empire , no historian would deny it the name of civi- lization . We may disagree ...
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... actual contradictions of civilized society , the actual costs of its values , as well as the deceptions or follies of common sense- " honor without virtue , reason without wisdom , pleasure without hap- piness . " It is even possible to ...
... actual contradictions of civilized society , the actual costs of its values , as well as the deceptions or follies of common sense- " honor without virtue , reason without wisdom , pleasure without hap- piness . " It is even possible to ...
Inhalt
The Rise and Fall of Islam | 1 |
THE ORIGINS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION | 25 |
The Medieval Sources of Freedom | 47 |
Urheberrecht | |
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