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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... Thomas Aquinas . On the question of free will , for example , it agreed with St. Thomas that man does have such freedom . But this characteristic controversy brings us back to the more trouble- some reasons for the dynamism of medieval ...
... Thomas Aquinas . On the question of free will , for example , it agreed with St. Thomas that man does have such freedom . But this characteristic controversy brings us back to the more trouble- some reasons for the dynamism of medieval ...
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... Thomas himself knew that the Devil was a direct cause of tem- pest and disease , and could as readily transform men into any shape as transport them through the air ; so the educated too might be pretty in- secure . They were still ...
... Thomas himself knew that the Devil was a direct cause of tem- pest and disease , and could as readily transform men into any shape as transport them through the air ; so the educated too might be pretty in- secure . They were still ...
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... Thomas More , Thomas Cran- mer , Hugh Latimer , and others on a celebrated roll of martyrs to the royal interests . We hear nothing of Magna Carta , which is not even mentioned in Shakespeare's King John . Parliament , obviously subordi ...
... Thomas More , Thomas Cran- mer , Hugh Latimer , and others on a celebrated roll of martyrs to the royal interests . We hear nothing of Magna Carta , which is not even mentioned in Shakespeare's King John . Parliament , obviously subordi ...
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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