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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... simple break from the Middle Ages , any sudden renaissance , reformation , or revolution . All the major forces that made for Western freedom were at work from the outset . All involved con- flicting tendencies too , inaugurating a ...
... simple break from the Middle Ages , any sudden renaissance , reformation , or revolution . All the major forces that made for Western freedom were at work from the outset . All involved con- flicting tendencies too , inaugurating a ...
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... simple for better or worse . Out of it nevertheless came more rights for ordinary men , positive gains by democratic standards - standards that after it became ever more gen- erally and widely accepted . Even so , most men outside the ...
... simple for better or worse . Out of it nevertheless came more rights for ordinary men , positive gains by democratic standards - standards that after it became ever more gen- erally and widely accepted . Even so , most men outside the ...
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... simple perversity either ; we can make out specific social and economic causes for its outbreak , as specific effects of ideal aspirations on its course . Both the material and the spiritual fac- tors , especially the latter , were ...
... simple perversity either ; we can make out specific social and economic causes for its outbreak , as specific effects of ideal aspirations on its course . Both the material and the spiritual fac- tors , especially the latter , were ...
Contenido
The Rise and Fall of Islam | 1 |
THE ORIGINS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION | 25 |
The Medieval Sources of Freedom | 47 |
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