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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... apparent influence than The Prince , at least for a century or so , they make it easier to understand and to honor Machiavelli's much - maligned classic . He never argued for abso- lutism as an ideal . As he repeatedly insisted , he was ...
... apparent influence than The Prince , at least for a century or so , they make it easier to understand and to honor Machiavelli's much - maligned classic . He never argued for abso- lutism as an ideal . As he repeatedly insisted , he was ...
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... apparent failure of the Cartesians to bridge the gap between matter and mind , or by the double standard of truth that scientific thinkers were operating on ; for ever since St. Paul Christians had been accus- tomed to a radical dualism ...
... apparent failure of the Cartesians to bridge the gap between matter and mind , or by the double standard of truth that scientific thinkers were operating on ; for ever since St. Paul Christians had been accus- tomed to a radical dualism ...
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... apparent difference it had made in the English character ; he pointed to the basic fact of cultural diversity , with its implication of the power of custom or " second nature " ; he pointed to a similar diver- sity by his stress upon ...
... apparent difference it had made in the English character ; he pointed to the basic fact of cultural diversity , with its implication of the power of custom or " second nature " ; he pointed to a similar diver- sity by his stress upon ...
Contenido
The Rise and Fall of Islam | 1 |
THE ORIGINS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION | 25 |
The Medieval Sources of Freedom | 47 |
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