Tocqueville's Christian Citzen

Tocqueville's Christian Citizen Marinus Ossewaarde Introduction Alexis De Tocqueville is well known for his critique of democracy. A French statesman, he was left with the legacy of the French Revolution that had torn his fatherland and had changed the course of human history for good. Tocqueville, unlike many of his contemporaries, believed that the Revolution ought not to be seen as incidental or unexpected, despite the fact that it was without precedent in human history and so tarnished with human blood. The French Revolution is part of a trend that traces the path of democracy. Living in the revolutionary France of the nineteenth century, he hoped to find out what France may expect from its course of civilization, what it may expect from its democracy. Tocqueville was a social critic: he deplored what he saw happening around him in France. He believed that France was poorly governed. He was critical of the rise of the bourgeoisie and believed that everything had become vulgar, low, and mean. He rejected the rising materialism as "a dangerous disease of the human mind," which he found in positivism (Comte and St. Simon) and socialism (Proudhon and Blanc). He believed that scientific and economic determinisms were serious threats to liberty and human

Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 55 Number 4, Summer 2014

20 - A DAY WITH THE DALAI LAMA photos by Charles Barry, Noah Berger, and Michael Collopy . Close-ups and long views from the spiritual leader’s Feb. 24 visit. 24 - THE CATHOLIC WRITER TODAY by Dana Gioia. The poet, critic, and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts argues that Catholic writers must renovate and reoccupy their own tradition. At stake: the diversity and vitality of the American arts. 38 - OUR STORIES AND THE THEATRE OF AWE an interview with Marilynne Robinson. The Pulitzer Prize–winning writer speaks with Editor Steven Boyd Saum about grace, discernment, and being a modern believer.https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/sc_mag/1029/thumbnail.jp

The Chouteau Family and the Osage Trade: A Generational Study

With the publication of Jennifer Brown's Strangers in Blood and Sylvia Van Kirk's "Many Tender Ties," a social history of mixed- blood families in the fur trade is fast acquiring form and discipline. This trend in scholarship has been accelerated by the redefinition of the fur trade as, in John Elgin Foster's words, "a set of politico-economic alliances, linking various Indian bands and the traders of different trading systems."1 Marriages between traders and Indian women, it has been argued, cemented trade alliances by facilitating political harmony and economic cooperation.

Index for Volumes I-XXV (1-25) (1980-2009)

Index to Sacred Heart University Review volumes I-XXV, 1980-2009

Slavery and identity in Mozarabic Toledo : 1201-1320

L'ocupació musulmana de Toledo va significar la coexistencia, en aquesta ciutat, de col·lectius que professaven religions diferents i entre els quals la tensió era freqüent: mossàrabs, jueus, castellans i colons francesos es convertiren en els grups dominants de la ciutat. Els musulmans de Toledo van haver d'escollir entre fugir, batejar-se o acabar com a captius o esclaus dels conqueridors

Index to Vincentian Heritage, Volumes 1-10

Articles that appeared in Vincentian Heritage volumes 1 to 10 are given in two complete lists. The articles are arranged by author and title and then by title and author

Index- Fall 2000

Index Great Plains Quarterly Fall 2000 A-Z (8 pages

The ‘Pierre Duhem Thesis.’ A Reappraisal of Duhem’s Discovery of the Physics of the Middle Ages

Pierre Duhem is the discoverer of the physics of the Middle Ages. The discovery that there existed a physics of the Middle Ages was a surprise primarily for Duhem himself. This discovery completely changed the way he saw the evolution of physics, bringing him to formulate a complex argument for the growth and continuity of scientific knowledge, which I call the ‘Pierre Duhem Thesis’ (not to be confused either with what Roger Ariew called the ‘true Duhem thesis’ as opposed to the Quine-Duhem thesis, which he persuasively argued is not Duhem’s, or with the famous ‘Quine-Duhem Thesis’ itself). The ‘Pierre Duhem Thesis’ consists of five sub-theses (some transcendental in nature, some other causal, factual, or descriptive), which are not independent, as they do not work separately (but only as a system) and do not relate to reality separately (but only simultaneously). The famous and disputed ‘continuity thesis’ is part, as a sub-thesis, from this larger argument. I argue that the ‘Pierre Duhem Thesis’ wraps up all of Duhem’s discoveries in the history of science and as a whole represents his main contribution to the historiography of science. The ‘Pierre Duhem Thesis’ is the central argument of Pierre Duhem's work as historian of science