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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... means concretely freedoms of various kinds , which may be at least roughly specified . Among the most funda- mental is political freedom , involving some means of control of rulers by the ruled , some protection of the individual ...
... means concretely freedoms of various kinds , which may be at least roughly specified . Among the most funda- mental is political freedom , involving some means of control of rulers by the ruled , some protection of the individual ...
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... means , and so confuse both the means and the ends of communal freedom . Granted its productivity ( in spite of a good deal of unproductive speculation ) , the emerging capitalistic society was not a genuine com- munity . The big ...
... means , and so confuse both the means and the ends of communal freedom . Granted its productivity ( in spite of a good deal of unproductive speculation ) , the emerging capitalistic society was not a genuine com- munity . The big ...
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... means of discrediting the authority of Aristotle , proving the superiority of the inductive method . However crude his conception of this method , he had hit upon the essential truth that it was the most positive means to discovery ...
... means of discrediting the authority of Aristotle , proving the superiority of the inductive method . However crude his conception of this method , he had hit upon the essential truth that it was the most positive means to discovery ...
Contenido
The Rise and Fall of Islam | 1 |
THE ORIGINS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION | 25 |
The Medieval Sources of Freedom | 47 |
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