Tocqueville and the American Tradition Series (Lecture 7) Alexis de Tocqueville and John Paul II on the Moral Trajectory of Modern Democracy

Tocqueville and the American Tradition Series (Lecture 7) Alexis de Tocqueville and John Paul II on the Moral Trajectory of Modern Democracy

A lecture made possible by the generous support of the Earhart Foundation
Carson Holloway, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Hollaway discussed what John Paul II meant by what this pope termed the “culture of death”, saying that it was a climate of thought characterized by the denial of God, individualism, hedonism and materialism, and that its manifestations were abortion, suicide and euthanasia.

January 14, 2009 -- Philodemic Room
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