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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... keep alive their fame on earth - and as a poet he is very conscious and proud of his power to do so . ( We may forget that the hero of the greatest Chris- tian epic is the poet himself , that he has three heavenly ladies — includ- ing ...
... keep alive their fame on earth - and as a poet he is very conscious and proud of his power to do so . ( We may forget that the hero of the greatest Chris- tian epic is the poet himself , that he has three heavenly ladies — includ- ing ...
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... keep them moving uniformly in circles , since the circle was traditionally the " perfect " figure and therefore the only one becoming heavenly bodies ; but it was no go . His observations kept indicating that they moved in ellipses and ...
... keep them moving uniformly in circles , since the circle was traditionally the " perfect " figure and therefore the only one becoming heavenly bodies ; but it was no go . His observations kept indicating that they moved in ellipses and ...
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... keep science open and thought free . One reason why thinkers in the past had never got deeply interested in motion , or bothered to measure it , was their common - sense assumption that the " natural " condition of bodies was rest ...
... keep science open and thought free . One reason why thinkers in the past had never got deeply interested in motion , or bothered to measure it , was their common - sense assumption that the " natural " condition of bodies was rest ...
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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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