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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... whole culture remained more clearly based on religion and more thoroughly permeated by it , beginning with their characteristic institution of the sacred monarchy . Islam may in this respect be considered the furthest development of ...
... whole culture remained more clearly based on religion and more thoroughly permeated by it , beginning with their characteristic institution of the sacred monarchy . Islam may in this respect be considered the furthest development of ...
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... whole world except Europe ; Portugal got the Eastern Hemisphere , Spain the Western . To the Spanish kings the possession of only one hemisphere meant a grudging concession , since in the preceding year Pope Alexander VI had issued ...
... whole world except Europe ; Portugal got the Eastern Hemisphere , Spain the Western . To the Spanish kings the possession of only one hemisphere meant a grudging concession , since in the preceding year Pope Alexander VI had issued ...
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... whole society . It impoverished many men , since there was nothing like a com- parable rise in wages or in returns to peasants . Its victims , no doubt , were liable to shortsightedness . Generally they believed that gains by merchants ...
... whole society . It impoverished many men , since there was nothing like a com- parable rise in wages or in returns to peasants . Its victims , no doubt , were liable to shortsightedness . Generally they believed that gains by merchants ...
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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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Freedom in the Western World: From the Dark Ages to the Rise of Democracy Herbert Joseph Muller Vista de fragmentos - 1963 |
Freedom in the Western World: From the Dark Ages to the Rise of Democracy Herbert Joseph Muller Vista de fragmentos - 1963 |
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