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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... human figures lacked a natural frame , a humanized perspective , a human stage ; they were subordinated to supernatural or otherworldly concerns . Now the human scene was rendered more deliberately , coherently , rationally , for its ...
... human figures lacked a natural frame , a humanized perspective , a human stage ; they were subordinated to supernatural or otherworldly concerns . Now the human scene was rendered more deliberately , coherently , rationally , for its ...
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... human beings did not exist . " Like the Newtonian universe , culture has it own inviolable laws and goes all by itself ; human beings would be simply a nuisance were it not that man- except as a scientist - is denied autonomy . On ...
... human beings did not exist . " Like the Newtonian universe , culture has it own inviolable laws and goes all by itself ; human beings would be simply a nuisance were it not that man- except as a scientist - is denied autonomy . On ...
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... human affairs , " wrote Edmund Burke , " the minds of men will be fitted to it ; the general opinions and feelings will draw that way . Every fear , every hope will forward it ; and then they who persist in opposing this mighty current ...
... human affairs , " wrote Edmund Burke , " the minds of men will be fitted to it ; the general opinions and feelings will draw that way . Every fear , every hope will forward it ; and then they who persist in opposing this mighty current ...
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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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