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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... scientific revolution . It is rather the reason why most men , particularly businessmen , have never really understood the scientific spirit - the essential itch . The pioneers in astronomy , from Copernicus to Newton , were hardly ...
... scientific revolution . It is rather the reason why most men , particularly businessmen , have never really understood the scientific spirit - the essential itch . The pioneers in astronomy , from Copernicus to Newton , were hardly ...
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... scientific revolution . It has become easy to belittle his work . No scientist himself , he contributed nothing to scientific knowledge , and even as a publicity man failed to herald the great theories of his time , rejecting the ...
... scientific revolution . It has become easy to belittle his work . No scientist himself , he contributed nothing to scientific knowledge , and even as a publicity man failed to herald the great theories of his time , rejecting the ...
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... scientific training is no assurance that the scientific spirit will be carried over into thinking about social , political , ethical , or religious problems . Indeed , his triumph involved a way of thinking that could menace human ...
... scientific training is no assurance that the scientific spirit will be carried over into thinking about social , political , ethical , or religious problems . Indeed , his triumph involved a way of thinking that could menace human ...
Contenido
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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