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More Than Kings and Less Than Men
More than Kings and Less than Men: Tocqueville on the Promises and Perils of Democratic Induvidualism examines Alexis de Tocqueville's hopes and fears for modern democracy, arguing that the distinctive political philosophy informing Democracy in America can help us to think more profoundly about the problems facing liberal democratic society today. L. Joseph Hebert, Jr. argues that Tocqueville saw the historical power of democracy as originating in its promise to liberate human nature, and the greatness it is capable of achieving, from the artificial constraints of conventional hierarchy. He probes Tocqueville's fear that the momentum of democratic change may violate that promise by neglecti...
Alexis de Tocqueville and the Art of Democratic Statesmanship
"At a time when the forces of administrative despotism are on the march and Winfreyesque rhetoric passes for moral leadership and intellectual sophistication, Brian Danoff and L. Joseph Hebert, Jr., have assembled a compelling collection of timely essays on the political thought of Alexis de Tocqueville, that liberal thinker of the first rank who endeavored to see f̀urther than the parties' without any pretense to post-partisanship, who understood that more democracy is not always the answer to every problem of democracy, and who concerned himself with educating democratic peoples so that they may live together as free citizens rather than exist independently as dependent subjects. This fin...
The Soul of Statesmanship
Shakespeare's plays explore a staggering range of political topics, from the nature of tyranny, to the practical effects of Christianity on politics and the family, to the meaning and practice of statesmanship. From great statesmen like Burke and Lincoln to the American frontiersman sitting by his rustic fire, those wrestling with the problems of the human soul and its confrontation with a puzzling world of political peril and promise have long considered these plays a source of political wisdom. The chapters in this volume support and illuminate this connection between Shakespearean drama and politics by examining a matter of central concern in both domains: the human soul. By depicting a b...
More Than Kings and Less Than Men
More than Kings and Less than Men: Tocqueville on the Promises and Perils of Democratic Induvidualism examines Alexis de Tocqueville's hopes and fears for modern democracy, arguing that the distinctive political philosophy informing Democracy in America can help us to think more profoundly about the problems facing liberal democratic society today. L. Joseph Hebert, Jr. argues that Tocqueville saw the historical power of democracy as originating in its promise to liberate human nature, and the greatness it is capable of achieving, from the artificial constraints of conventional hierarchy. He probes Tocqueville's fear that the momentum of democratic change may violate that promise by neglecti...
The Liberal Education of Democracy [microform] : a Study of Tocqueville's Democracy in America
I examine Tocqueville's assessment of our historical situation---the inevitability of a ubiquitous equality of conditions---seeking to find the standard by which he judges "democracy." This standard, which I argue is a conception of human happiness including greatness, is revealed in his subtle comparisons of the laws, mores, and ideas that predominate in American and French democracy as opposed to those he recalls from "aristocratic times." It comes to the fore in his advice to legislators and moralists, whom he teaches to know the penchants of the present "social state" in order to steer it towards the "unmoving goal" that is natural to the human race itself, a goal that Tocqueville closel...
Our Ewing Family
Genealogies of the Ewing, Dingle, Roddie, Ball, and Desoto family by one of their descendants.
The Hoopes Family Record
Daniel Hoopes, son of Joshua Hoopes was born in Yorkshire, England. He married Jane Worrilow in 1696 in Lima, Pennsylvania. He died in 1749 in Westtown, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
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