01:790:311 Study Guide - Final Guide: James Mill, Alexis De Tocqueville, Deductive Reasoning
30 Oct 2014
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Tocqueville on north and south: north was a better fit for democracy, puritans were successful bc of covenant. Southern society was more european, ignorant, luxury, pride, more literary, wasn"t really democratic(slavery), feudal, no habits of the heart. North: democracy was best expressed in small local meetings (churches, clubs, local meetings). North is its enterprising spirit, the north presents to me, internally at least, the image of a government strong, regular, durable, and perfectly appropriate to the moral and physical state of men. In the south there is in the march of affairs something feverish, disorderly, revolutionary, passionate, which does not leave the same impression of strength and durability. Consequentialism: utilitarianism: looks at consequences of actions (mills). efers to those moral theories which hold that the consequences of a particular action form the basis for any valid moral judgment about that action (but see rule consequentialism).
