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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... independence of mind and spirit ( as Islam shows ) ; yet they may contribute to such independence . The fact remains that Europeans - barbarous or civilized , in Greece , Rome , or Western Chris- tendom - have typically distinguished ...
... independence of mind and spirit ( as Islam shows ) ; yet they may contribute to such independence . The fact remains that Europeans - barbarous or civilized , in Greece , Rome , or Western Chris- tendom - have typically distinguished ...
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... independence from Spain , it was not clearly due to any passion for liberty engrained in the " national character " or tradition of the Dutch ; they became proud , self - conscious Dutchmen only after they had won their independence ...
... independence from Spain , it was not clearly due to any passion for liberty engrained in the " national character " or tradition of the Dutch ; they became proud , self - conscious Dutchmen only after they had won their independence ...
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... independence from the Holy Roman Empire by 1500 , its people were soon fortified , and distracted , by the militant faith of Protestantism , to which they con tributed one of the major Reformers , Zwingli , while among them Calvin built ...
... independence from the Holy Roman Empire by 1500 , its people were soon fortified , and distracted , by the militant faith of Protestantism , to which they con tributed one of the major Reformers , Zwingli , while among them Calvin built ...
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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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