Tag: Tocqueville
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November 2, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. For the October Quarterly Discussion, we read four chapters from Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. As usual, I distributed some questions beforehand intended to help start the conversation. Each discussion lasts 1.5 hours in which I (mostly) lead. I enjoy the responsibility …
July 20, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. In Democracy in America, Tocqueville warns that abstract language is like “a box with a false bottom; you may put in what ideas you please and take them out again unobserved” (258). Since I often study poetry and think about how metaphor affects …
June 29, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all …
