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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... took the lead in a fresh develop- ment . than 20 per cent ever took up a new craft or industry , and most of these ventured upon an innovation but once . Most of England , in other words , remained a traditional agri- cultural society ...
... took the lead in a fresh develop- ment . than 20 per cent ever took up a new craft or industry , and most of these ventured upon an innovation but once . Most of England , in other words , remained a traditional agri- cultural society ...
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... took them through some lands that no Westerner would see again until the nineteenth century . Marco Polo came back talking of " millions " of everything ; his popular narra- tive of his travels told of cities far greater and richer than ...
... took them through some lands that no Westerner would see again until the nineteenth century . Marco Polo came back talking of " millions " of everything ; his popular narra- tive of his travels told of cities far greater and richer than ...
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... took up the rights of private property , but not for clearly religious reasons : rights that medieval thinkers had tended to regard as matters of social convenience now began to acquire an aura of sanctity . A century before John Locke ...
... took up the rights of private property , but not for clearly religious reasons : rights that medieval thinkers had tended to regard as matters of social convenience now began to acquire an aura of sanctity . A century before John Locke ...
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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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