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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... reason . Meanwhile reason was get- ting into further trouble , and preparing to give still more . Faith re- mained primary , since the truth of Christianity finally rests on divine revelation ; the Church perforce condemned as heretical ...
... reason . Meanwhile reason was get- ting into further trouble , and preparing to give still more . Faith re- mained primary , since the truth of Christianity finally rests on divine revelation ; the Church perforce condemned as heretical ...
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... reason and science . For these fallacies had much to do with their fervor and their immediate effectiveness , and also with the problems of their heirs — with the reasons why they won the future , and why it has been unkind to them . To ...
... reason and science . For these fallacies had much to do with their fervor and their immediate effectiveness , and also with the problems of their heirs — with the reasons why they won the future , and why it has been unkind to them . To ...
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... reason and empirical knowledge , in particular the inductions on which science rested , Kant responded with his Cri- tique of Pure Reason . In this most difficult work he clung to a simple idea . Hume's logic was irrefutable : by direct ...
... reason and empirical knowledge , in particular the inductions on which science rested , Kant responded with his Cri- tique of Pure Reason . In this most difficult work he clung to a simple idea . Hume's logic was irrefutable : by direct ...
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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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