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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... simple weariness with long , bitter experience of persecution . Another was the tradition stemming from Erasmus of Rotterdam , restated by William the Silent : " Who in this world is sufficiently courageous to touch another's con ...
... simple weariness with long , bitter experience of persecution . Another was the tradition stemming from Erasmus of Rotterdam , restated by William the Silent : " Who in this world is sufficiently courageous to touch another's con ...
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... simple me- chanical process , a way of grinding generalizations out of a mass of data . His innocence of the metaphysical mysteries of induction may now be attributed to a vulgar gospel of " utility and power , " which blinded him as ...
... simple me- chanical process , a way of grinding generalizations out of a mass of data . His innocence of the metaphysical mysteries of induction may now be attributed to a vulgar gospel of " utility and power , " which blinded him as ...
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... simple dream that would sustain the many more millions to come , the hope that their children would enjoy a better opportunity than they them- selves had . Apart from all those who had sought a haven from religious or political ...
... simple dream that would sustain the many more millions to come , the hope that their children would enjoy a better opportunity than they them- selves had . Apart from all those who had sought a haven from religious or political ...
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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