: About Me

Daniel is Humanities Instructor specializing in Art, History and Philosophy. He has done extensive work on Race and Gender issues as well as Psychology and Sociology.

My passion is ...

Knowledge

I know too much about ...

Philosophy

My parents always told me ...

that to be an individual is our greatest duty.

My childhood ambition ...

underwater archeology

My favorite memory ...

teaching my first class.

Why I write ...

to proliferate the ideas I develop and recieve feedback

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Paterns of Anarchy

My first job ...

A character interpreter at a historical sight.

My best moment ...

the present, ad infinitum.

My inspiration ...

those with less that do more.

Arts & Humanities > Political Philosophy Why Tocqueville believed that equality leads to a love of centralized authority

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Alexis de Tocqueville was a member of the French aristocracy in the early 1800's. In his early twenties, he became interested in the phenomenon of Democracy and how it was emerging into his modern world. Curious about how such a profound transformation from aristocracy and class to popular sovereignty occurred, he and a friend procured a grant from the French government to study the prison system of the United States. Tocqueville admitted that the prison study was merely a pretext by which he could come to the United States and examine the materialization of Democracy on her shores. During...

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