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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... particular wills with the general will . " Rousseau went on to denounce such institutions as parliaments , holding that long debates only proclaimed “ the ascend- ancy of particular interests and the decline of the State . " On the same ...
... particular wills with the general will . " Rousseau went on to denounce such institutions as parliaments , holding that long debates only proclaimed “ the ascend- ancy of particular interests and the decline of the State . " On the same ...
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... particular he was oppressed by a keen sense of the political realities of his day . In his letters he wrote despairingly of the prospects of getting citizens enlightened enough to discern the general will , patri- otic enough to act ...
... particular he was oppressed by a keen sense of the political realities of his day . In his letters he wrote despairingly of the prospects of getting citizens enlightened enough to discern the general will , patri- otic enough to act ...
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... particular the invitations to popular tyranny or Jacobinism . And we must add some reservation even about his ... particular people under particular circumstances . Otherwise he affirmed sufficiently uni- versal principles , as the ...
... particular the invitations to popular tyranny or Jacobinism . And we must add some reservation even about his ... particular people under particular circumstances . Otherwise he affirmed sufficiently uni- versal principles , as the ...
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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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