Freedom in the Western World: From the Dark Ages to the Rise of DemocracyHarper & Row, 1963 - 428 páginas 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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... march of events the plays of Shakespeare , the paintings of Rembrandt , the sym- phonies of Beethoven - ibn - Khaldun's Muqaddimah ( or Prolegomena to the study of history ) must be considered important simply because it was a great ...
... march of events the plays of Shakespeare , the paintings of Rembrandt , the sym- phonies of Beethoven - ibn - Khaldun's Muqaddimah ( or Prolegomena to the study of history ) must be considered important simply because it was a great ...
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... march , dominating most of the civilized world from Mongolia to Algiers . Babur was about to set up the great Mogul Empire in India ; the Ottoman Turks had added the Balkan region to their growing empire and within a few decades they ...
... march , dominating most of the civilized world from Mongolia to Algiers . Babur was about to set up the great Mogul Empire in India ; the Ottoman Turks had added the Balkan region to their growing empire and within a few decades they ...
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... march of God through the world . " Though he did not foresee either that the march would lead to totalitarianism , he provided its political ethic by grandly resolving Burke's worries over " imaginary rights " and the dangers of ...
... march of God through the world . " Though he did not foresee either that the march would lead to totalitarianism , he provided its political ethic by grandly resolving Burke's worries over " imaginary rights " and the dangers of ...
Contenido
The Rise and Fall of Islam | 1 |
THE Origins of WESTERN CIVILIZATION | 25 |
The Medieval Sources of Freedom | 47 |
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Freedom in the Western World: From the Dark Ages to the Rise of Democracy Herbert Joseph Muller Vista de fragmentos - 1963 |
Freedom in the Western World: From the Dark Ages to the Rise of Democracy Herbert Joseph Muller Vista de fragmentos - 1963 |
Términos y frases comunes
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