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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... ancient East , where despotic gods and god - kings had always been the rule . Such basic simplicities , together with its insistent ethic , made the gos- pel of Mohammed an admirable one for rude peoples like his own . It could at once ...
... ancient East , where despotic gods and god - kings had always been the rule . Such basic simplicities , together with its insistent ethic , made the gos- pel of Mohammed an admirable one for rude peoples like his own . It could at once ...
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... ancient Rome had none the less given the Church its organization , its law , and its tradition of statesmanship , best exemplified by Gregory the Great ; and the Church operated over wide areas . Memories of municipal government ...
... ancient Rome had none the less given the Church its organization , its law , and its tradition of statesmanship , best exemplified by Gregory the Great ; and the Church operated over wide areas . Memories of municipal government ...
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... ancient Greece , Islam , or any other society , directly by making possible an industrial revolu tion , indirectly by helping to inspire political revolutions . It would assure constant and ever more rapid change , force men to live in ...
... ancient Greece , Islam , or any other society , directly by making possible an industrial revolu tion , indirectly by helping to inspire political revolutions . It would assure constant and ever more rapid change , force men to live in ...
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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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