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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... immediate key to its history is the Prophet Mohammed . The dramatic entrance of the Arabs on the world stage - out of their deserts , out of nowhere was indeed not quite so sudden and startling as may at first appear . They were hardy ...
... immediate key to its history is the Prophet Mohammed . The dramatic entrance of the Arabs on the world stage - out of their deserts , out of nowhere was indeed not quite so sudden and startling as may at first appear . They were hardy ...
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... immediate future ; so he may remind us that the moderate , tolerant , liberal disposition is often not a heroic disposi- tion , and that the line between reasonableness and flabbiness in com- promise is always hard to draw . Yet the ...
... immediate future ; so he may remind us that the moderate , tolerant , liberal disposition is often not a heroic disposi- tion , and that the line between reasonableness and flabbiness in com- promise is always hard to draw . Yet the ...
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... immediate source of much apparent evil - unjust laws and irrational institutions . They attacked quite specific ... immediately to reduce suffering . It is possible , finally , to make some sense out of even the wildest testaments of ...
... immediate source of much apparent evil - unjust laws and irrational institutions . They attacked quite specific ... immediately to reduce suffering . It is possible , finally , to make some sense out of even the wildest testaments of ...
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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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