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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... civilization in the end of Rome . There was a decline of classical civilization , he granted , but with it came a shift to Christian values ; what seemed all - important to men brought up on Greco - Roman culture no longer seemed vital ...
... civilization in the end of Rome . There was a decline of classical civilization , he granted , but with it came a shift to Christian values ; what seemed all - important to men brought up on Greco - Roman culture no longer seemed vital ...
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... civilization , the period from A.D. 400 to 1000 was unmistakably a dark age in Europe , predominantly barbarous . The Germanic peoples proved wholly incapable of matching the feats of the Arabs , who in overrunning a world with a much ...
... civilization , the period from A.D. 400 to 1000 was unmistakably a dark age in Europe , predominantly barbarous . The Germanic peoples proved wholly incapable of matching the feats of the Arabs , who in overrunning a world with a much ...
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... civilization . Wer- ner Sombart argued that it laid the foundations of capitalism by insti- tuting the regular , punctual life — the bourgeois ideal of being “ as regular as clockwork ” —which no previous society had considered neces ...
... civilization . Wer- ner Sombart argued that it laid the foundations of capitalism by insti- tuting the regular , punctual life — the bourgeois ideal of being “ as regular as clockwork ” —which no previous society had considered neces ...
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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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