Here’s an interesting presentation from a contemporary social psychologist, Jonathan Haidt, that illustrates some of the problems Tocqueville describes in the American tendency to think about equality in the lens of ‘the indefinite perfectability of man.’ Do you agree with… Read moreTocqueville, equality, and social justice
Before you can create a post on your course site, you must log-in to the site with your regular Bucknell username and password (you can click on this link, or use the Log-In link at the bottom of the website)…. Read moreAdding a blog post
The general idea behind this practice is that writing is a social process, involving both writers and readers, and one of the most effective ways by which writers can improve their work is to get feedback from readers and revise… Read moreThe ABCs of Critically Commenting on the Writing of Fellow Students
“How Equality Suggests to the Americans the Indefinite Perfectibility of Man”: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/ch1_08.htm “The Exterior Form of North America”; “Origin of the Anglo-Americans, and the Importance of this Origin in Relation to their Future Condition”; “Social Condition of the Anglo-Americans”: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/1_ch01.htm http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/1_ch02.htm… Read moreAlexis de Tocqueville selections