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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... wrote , " were laid in fear and weakness and suffering - in such suffering as we can hardly conceive today , " even after the disasters of world war . Crisis was the normal state of the period , which in this respect was a fitting ...
... wrote , " were laid in fear and weakness and suffering - in such suffering as we can hardly conceive today , " even after the disasters of world war . Crisis was the normal state of the period , which in this respect was a fitting ...
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... wrote , and Guicciardini was even more emphatic about " the tyranny of these vile priests . " They perhaps wrote too bitterly , no doubt too simply ; but at least the Renais- sance popes remain as notorious as they were in their own day ...
... wrote , and Guicciardini was even more emphatic about " the tyranny of these vile priests . " They perhaps wrote too bitterly , no doubt too simply ; but at least the Renais- sance popes remain as notorious as they were in their own day ...
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... wrote James Harrington , the deepest political thinker of the period , " it includes liberty of conscience ; when liberty of conscience is entire it includes civil liberty . " Though both liberties were far from entire when he wrote ...
... wrote James Harrington , the deepest political thinker of the period , " it includes liberty of conscience ; when liberty of conscience is entire it includes civil liberty . " Though both liberties were far from entire when he wrote ...
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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 |
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