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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... whole order of things , natural as well as political : “ this brave o'erhanging firmament " appears to him no more than “ a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors . " All the uses of this world were corrupt . Yet Hamlet could not ...
... whole order of things , natural as well as political : “ this brave o'erhanging firmament " appears to him no more than “ a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors . " All the uses of this world were corrupt . Yet Hamlet could not ...
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... whole world except Europe ; Portugal got the Eastern Hemisphere , Spain the Western . To the Spanish kings the possession of only one hemisphere meant a grudging concession , since in the preceding year Pope Alexander VI had issued ...
... whole world except Europe ; Portugal got the Eastern Hemisphere , Spain the Western . To the Spanish kings the possession of only one hemisphere meant a grudging concession , since in the preceding year Pope Alexander VI had issued ...
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... whole foreshadowed the modern faith in progress . At the same time they realized most fully the revolutionary impli- cations of the Protestant spirit of individualism and nonconformity . Lacking the political power to lay down the law ...
... whole foreshadowed the modern faith in progress . At the same time they realized most fully the revolutionary impli- cations of the Protestant spirit of individualism and nonconformity . Lacking the political power to lay down the law ...
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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