Natural religion and human perfectibility: Tocqueville's account of religion in modern democracy.

From: Perspectives on Political Science | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Yenor, Scott | Copyright information

Few issues are as troublesome as the problem of technology. On the level of common opinion, people wonder whether our consumptive culture will destroy the ecosystem necessary to sustain human life, whether the proliferation of biological and nuclear weapons threatens the existence of liberal democracies, and whether human cloning is consistent with the goodness of existence. Thinkers see matters of permanent significance in these occasional issues. Critics from a somewhat leftist pe...

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