TOCQUEVILLE’S THEOLOGICO-POLITICAL PREDICAMENT: LEO STRAUSS, RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA

Autor:	Craig Albert
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	Sociology and Political Science lcsh:BL1-50 media_common.quotation_subject Religious studies lcsh:Religion (General) Democracy Alexis de Tocqueville Politics Political science Straussian Hermeneutics Church and State media_common
Zdroj:	Politics and Religion, Vol 13, Iss 1 (2019) Craig Douglas Albert
ISSN:	1820-659X 1820-6581
DOI:	10.54561/prj1301113a
Popis:	This paper analyzes Tocqueville’s Democracy in America in a new light. When viewed through Leo Strauss’ conception of the theologico-political problem, a novel reading of Tocqueville is presented. This interpretation argues that one of Democracy’s major themes concerns reason versus revelation. Within such a reading, it contends that Tocqueville’s seminal contribution to the history of political philosophy contained within it his reluctant announcement that religion may not be able to cure the social ills liberal democracy brings with it. Mainly, this is because Tocqueville fears democracy will contribute to the decline of religion itself. Tocqueville subtlety reveals his concerns over religion’s possible inadequacy, offers explanations thereof, and postulates another concept as a mitigating tool that has similar moderating effects on democratic defects: self-interest well understood.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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