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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... success it was insensibly transformed into a principle of individual right to do as one pleased , especially with the property one had acquired . The inner - directed man was turning into the proud self - made man — a type , it has been ...
... success it was insensibly transformed into a principle of individual right to do as one pleased , especially with the property one had acquired . The inner - directed man was turning into the proud self - made man — a type , it has been ...
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... success , attested by the increasing wealth , power , and stability of the monarchical states . By and large the kings were a progressive force , the leaders in more rational government . Ideally representing all classes in the nation ...
... success , attested by the increasing wealth , power , and stability of the monarchical states . By and large the kings were a progressive force , the leaders in more rational government . Ideally representing all classes in the nation ...
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... success to his ministers , he had the wit not only to employ them but to approve their counsels . Public administra- tion he turned over largely to Colbert , who had a bourgeois genius for it . Colbert controlled the state finances ...
... success to his ministers , he had the wit not only to employ them but to approve their counsels . Public administra- tion he turned over largely to Colbert , who had a bourgeois genius for it . Colbert controlled the state finances ...
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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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