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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... cultural achievement of man up to that time , and apparently the most brilliant culture that food hunters have ever developed anywhere ; but if so we should be sobered by the fate of this culture . Among other things it illustrated a ...
... cultural achievement of man up to that time , and apparently the most brilliant culture that food hunters have ever developed anywhere ; but if so we should be sobered by the fate of this culture . Among other things it illustrated a ...
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... culture to a level worthy of the name of civilization , but at least Europeans were now catching on more quickly . Some developed a culture considerably more advanced than that of the later Germanic tribes pictured by Roman historians ...
... culture to a level worthy of the name of civilization , but at least Europeans were now catching on more quickly . Some developed a culture considerably more advanced than that of the later Germanic tribes pictured by Roman historians ...
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... culture for all Italy ; he added that political freedom was essential to culture , as the Greeks had proved . Correspondingly he introduced a new view of the Roman Republic , glorifying it instead of Julius Caesar ; the loss of freedom ...
... culture for all Italy ; he added that political freedom was essential to culture , as the Greeks had proved . Correspondingly he introduced a new view of the Roman Republic , glorifying it instead of Julius Caesar ; the loss of freedom ...
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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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