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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... followers surged all over the Middle East , permanently establishing his faith in regions that Christianity had taken three cen- turies to win , and now lost for good . They proceeded to develop a new civilization far in advance of ...
... followers surged all over the Middle East , permanently establishing his faith in regions that Christianity had taken three cen- turies to win , and now lost for good . They proceeded to develop a new civilization far in advance of ...
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... followers had been taking down the Koran , which he said the Angel Gabriel had dictated to him in installments . As an im- passioned , illiterate prophet , Mohammed was incoherent and inconsist- ent enough to keep theologians busy in ...
... followers had been taking down the Koran , which he said the Angel Gabriel had dictated to him in installments . As an im- passioned , illiterate prophet , Mohammed was incoherent and inconsist- ent enough to keep theologians busy in ...
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... followers popularized a new word- " radical . ” The history of the Utilitarian movement belongs to a later chapter ... follower of Beccaria ( another disciple of Helvetius ) , he began work- ing immediately for concrete legal reforms ...
... followers popularized a new word- " radical . ” The history of the Utilitarian movement belongs to a later chapter ... follower of Beccaria ( another disciple of Helvetius ) , he began work- ing immediately for concrete legal reforms ...
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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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