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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... individual . In prehistory such individuals are perforce anony- mous , at best being commemorated in some later myth like that of the master craftsman Daedalus , and their inventiveness is obscured by the slow pace of change , the ...
... individual . In prehistory such individuals are perforce anony- mous , at best being commemorated in some later myth like that of the master craftsman Daedalus , and their inventiveness is obscured by the slow pace of change , the ...
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... individual liberty ( policemen are a serious embarrassment to thugs ) , it might nevertheless secure still more effective freedom for the many by taking on more powers - restricting the liberty of some individuals , say , to work ...
... individual liberty ( policemen are a serious embarrassment to thugs ) , it might nevertheless secure still more effective freedom for the many by taking on more powers - restricting the liberty of some individuals , say , to work ...
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... individual decisions , this arch- rebel made conformity the sovereign virtue . In thus laying down the principles of totalitarianism , Rousseau ex- posed the limitations and the dangers of the ardent rationalism of the Enlightenment ...
... individual decisions , this arch- rebel made conformity the sovereign virtue . In thus laying down the principles of totalitarianism , Rousseau ex- posed the limitations and the dangers of the ardent rationalism of the Enlightenment ...
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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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