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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... mind on sensa- tions ; limited by their senses , men could never know the whole of reality , or such matters as ... mind at birth as a blank sheet on which experience wrote , he failed to see clearly that the operations of the mind ...
... mind on sensa- tions ; limited by their senses , men could never know the whole of reality , or such matters as ... mind at birth as a blank sheet on which experience wrote , he failed to see clearly that the operations of the mind ...
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... mind and soul , he began by absolutely separating mind from matter , making it by definition immaterial . Hence it could not logically affect matter or be affected by it , and was ideally free - except that it had no means of ...
... mind and soul , he began by absolutely separating mind from matter , making it by definition immaterial . Hence it could not logically affect matter or be affected by it , and was ideally free - except that it had no means of ...
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... mind " of the century was not discrete and uniform , of course , any more than was the medieval mind ; but out of the usual welter of diverse and anomalous tendencies we can readily enough make out certain dominant ones that give the ...
... mind " of the century was not discrete and uniform , of course , any more than was the medieval mind ; but out of the usual welter of diverse and anomalous tendencies we can readily enough make out certain dominant ones that give the ...
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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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