In Tocqueville’s section “Situation of the Black population in the United States, and Dangers with which its Presence Threatens the Whites” he speaks about slavery within America and makes very insightfull predictions into the ways in which slavery both will… Read more“Situation of the Black population in the United States, and Dangers with which its Presence Threatens the Whites”
In the chapter “The Present and Probable Future Condition of the Indian Tribes that Inhabit the Territory Possessed by the Union” Tocqueville discusses the plight of the American Indians and makes a prediction about their eventual fate. He writes that… Read moreTocqueville on Native Americans Today
Democracy in America was written in 1835, before philosophies such as Marxism, Nihilism, Scientific Materialism, biological determinism/sociobiology, moral relativism, moral subjectivism, began to become prominent influences in shaping people’s worldviews from the mid-late 1800s about to the present. A recent… Read moreGod and/or Nature in Tocqueville’s Explanation of the Physical World
Tocqueville begins this section by underscoring how important a people’s social condition is to the development of their society. He then goes on to elaborately describe the social condition of America during its development, what traits were embued then, and… Read more“Social Condition of the Anglo-Americans” Expository