Can virtues and morals coexist with humanism?
Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America (1835/1840) is one of the books on my reading list. I have read a few chapters and some important point that Tocqueville has made in the book and it is amazing the clarity of thought that Tocqueville has when critiquing the American democracy (Republic) as he traveled around our new nation.
What struck me most in an article I read Tocqueville and Democracy’s Fall in America at thepublicdiscourse.com was his forewarning of our Republics fall if we failed to keep morals, virtue, and equality in their proper places. Tocqueville also spoke of ethics based on what the body politic wanted at the time and that could change in the future and cause the lines of distinction to be blurred on a whole host of things, especially equality.
We all stand equal before God and the law, and what we do with that equality is what defines us and makes us different from each other!!!
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