Lumen Christi Institute

Open to current university students and faculty. Copies of Democracy in America will be available for participants who do not already have it.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

• What does Tocqueville mean by democracy?
• Is democracy inevitable ("providential")? Is its corruption inevitable?
• What, if anything, follows democracy? Democratic despotism?
• Do Tocqueville's recommendations for the role played by religion as a corrective to democracy apply any longer? Can they?
   

REQUIRED READINGS:

Democracy in America (U of C Press, Mansfield translation):

• Author’s Introduction: pp. 3-15
• I.i. 2: pp. 27-45
• I.i.5: (partial): pp. 57-65
• I.ii.9:  (partial): pp. 274-302
• II.i.1-3: pp. 403-415
• II.i. 5-8: pp. 417-428
• II.i.10-11: pp. 433-443
• II.ii.1-2: pp. 479-484
• II.ii.4-5: pp. 485-492
• II.ii.7-10: pp. 496-508
• II.ii.13: pp. 511-514
• II.ii.15: pp. 517-521
• II.ii.17: pp. 522-524
• II.ii.20: pp. 530-532
• II.iv.2-3: pp. 640-645
• II.iv.6: pp. 661-665

Professor Deneen also gave a lecture on Why Liberalism Failed on Thursday, February 1.

To view photos of the master class, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page.