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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... live enough to foster the rise of an independent citizenry . A twelfth - century writer noted that the Lombards " are so attached to their liberty that , to avoid the insolence of rulers , they prefer to be reigned over by consuls than ...
... live enough to foster the rise of an independent citizenry . A twelfth - century writer noted that the Lombards " are so attached to their liberty that , to avoid the insolence of rulers , they prefer to be reigned over by consuls than ...
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... live together in great nations , so he argued they would have to learn to avoid great wars between nations , and to live together under some kind of “ federal league " or supranational state - compara- ble to the United Nations that ...
... live together in great nations , so he argued they would have to learn to avoid great wars between nations , and to live together under some kind of “ federal league " or supranational state - compara- ble to the United Nations that ...
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... live as they pleased instead of how it ought to please them to live . Liberals , one might add , are now least disposed to rejoice over the way most free Americans are pleased to live . Their complaints over the common uses of freedom ...
... live as they pleased instead of how it ought to please them to live . Liberals , one might add , are now least disposed to rejoice over the way most free Americans are pleased to live . Their complaints over the common uses of freedom ...
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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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