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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... look like the anarchic individualists he pictures . In both the democracies and the dictatorships men may look more like sheep than wolves , or in other words , more like the creatures described by the Grand Inquisitor ; their most ...
... look like the anarchic individualists he pictures . In both the democracies and the dictatorships men may look more like sheep than wolves , or in other words , more like the creatures described by the Grand Inquisitor ; their most ...
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... look through his telescope and see for them- selves , they refused even to look . They were typical academics , we might say , just old fossils ; but at that their attitude seems almost incredible — as it did to Galileo , who in a ...
... look through his telescope and see for them- selves , they refused even to look . They were typical academics , we might say , just old fossils ; but at that their attitude seems almost incredible — as it did to Galileo , who in a ...
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... look as obsolete as the Holy Roman Empire he put a decent end to . Thus the Prussian state fashioned by Frederick the Great , which collapsed ingloriously after the disastrous battle of Jena , responded by putting through a series of ...
... look as obsolete as the Holy Roman Empire he put a decent end to . Thus the Prussian state fashioned by Frederick the Great , which collapsed ingloriously after the disastrous battle of Jena , responded by putting through a series 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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