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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... kind ; its inmates lived " according to their own free will and pleasure . " The only rule was a ban on sour- faced priests , monks , and nuns . ( What do you do with a woman who is neither fair nor good ? Why , make a nun of her , said ...
... kind ; its inmates lived " according to their own free will and pleasure . " The only rule was a ban on sour- faced priests , monks , and nuns . ( What do you do with a woman who is neither fair nor good ? Why , make a nun of her , said ...
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... kind of systematic abuse of the past . He made little effort to understand , much less to pardon its errors ; chiefly he was interested in discrediting it . Among the victims of his own prejudices were the Israelites , whom he sneered ...
... kind of systematic abuse of the past . He made little effort to understand , much less to pardon its errors ; chiefly he was interested in discrediting it . Among the victims of his own prejudices were the Israelites , whom he sneered ...
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... kind of history in which he and his fellows moved nearer the center of the stage , this was indeed a fundamental kind , as well as the clearest index to the progress of mankind , the soundest basis for the faith of the Enlightenment ...
... kind of history in which he and his fellows moved nearer the center of the stage , this was indeed a fundamental kind , as well as the clearest index to the progress of mankind , the soundest basis for the faith of the Enlightenment ...
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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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