Adolphe Quetelet, Johann Herder, And Alexis Tocqueville

Except for the fact that the man kind had to innovate there means of survival. Such as, finding out adequate shelter to take refuge in, “caves”. Using the natural resources to create tools for self-protection and then using them for their basic necessities for survival was pretty much how the man kind got started with the process of evolution in early societies. Every human was and is destined to live a life with freedom and somewhat autonomy that is required to take one’s own decisions, as that was and is the only option mankind could truly enjoy (Fredric,

You begin in youth and then move on year after year growing older and wiser. At this point nothing can get in your way or bring damage, something that nature cannot do. You become calm and have immoral beauty. So, when a man does find something more beautiful than nature, there is only a certain power than can produce this. The author says that it is man or a harmony of both man and nature.

Alexis de Tocqueville and James Madison had two distinctly different philosophical views when it came to the problem of “majority tyranny.” In Tocqueville and the Tyranny of the Majority, Morton J. Horwitz discusses in length the writings of the Frenchman when he came to and became fascinated by America. Horowitz argues each man believes the public’s best interests and freedoms were being terrorized. The former (de Tocqueville) believed that society itself is a monster, but the latter (Madison) believed danger came from a temporarily impassioned majority making lasting decisions in government.

     Aristocracy is a phenomenon that is perhaps as natural a summer crop, and as devastating as the locusts that eat it. De Tocqueville’s position on aristocracy is quite clear. He is a strong advocate of the aristocracy, it is a part of the natural order and necessary. His position may have some basis, however I have yet to see the “upside'; of a caste system or a good defense of it.

In “Before Manliness Lost Its Virtue” (2017), David Brooks (a New York Times Op-Ed columnist) claims that we are living in a “crisis of masculinity” (15). David Brooks backs up his claim by comparing and contrasting manliness of the men in the White House (the “”I don’t care what you think” manliness” [2] and the “the look-at-me-I-can-curse manliness”[2] ) to men in ancient Greece (“real men defended or served their city”[6] the “The manly man… risks death and criticism.”[8] and “They are constantly picking fights”[9].) to the ideal man (“The magnanimous leader… uses his traits… to create a just political order.”[11]).

In “Self-Reliance,” Ralph Waldo Emerson claims that "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members." One can agree that society is against the individuality of many of its members because of superficial features and other factors, brought on by cultural misunderstandings and stereotypes.

1.) Alexis de Tocqueville viewed equality as the greatest political and social idea in his era. He was a French sociologist and political theorist who

During 1872, a patriotic Prussian immigrant by the name of John Gast painted American Progress. In the iconic art piece, a ginormous angel floats midair as a heavenly light bows down upon her. Below her feet are westward moving European settlers that are eager for a conquest. According to Manifest Destiny, the conquest that the settlers seek is the entirety of America’s western frontier. On the far left side of American Progress are Native Americans who glance back at what they once called their own. Unfortunately for the Native Americans, the white man’s god had already declared a war against the uncivilized and the wilderness.

Government is built on the premises of the established ideas of former politicians and then the new outlooks of recent politicians. All ideas on government are based on the structure and laws of former civilizations. Thus, many politicians can have similar viewpoints on government due to basing their ideas on the same former structures. But, in contrast new government structures include a variety of variations. Therefore, Jean Domat, Montesquieu and Jean Jacques Rousseau have major differences in their outlooks on government, but they do share similar aspects.

As a meteor enters the earth’s atmosphere, it often disintegrates in a fiery ball and leaves nothing but ashes. By the 20th century, the American self-made man existed in a similar state. Since the American Revolution, American men’s identities clung to the promises of the self-made archetype, which focused on the public accumulation of wealth and status. This hunger for success focused on the qualities of mobility, competiveness, and aggressiveness. For over two centuries, these qualities thrusted America onto the world stage. By the late 20th century, the new, modern world threatened the American self-made man’s existence. Debilitating events such as the closing of the frontier; gender and racial equality; and economic instability all contributed to the self-made man’s downfall. Thus, in crumbling under the ashes of the self-made man, contemporary American men must forge a new definition of manhood. Although not all negative, the qualities of the self-made man created this crisis of manhood. Other scholars, such as Michael Kimmel, attempted, but failed to fully mend the issue. In continuation, this paper serves to do what other historians could not complete; establish the foundation for true manhood. In such an endeavor, the best attributes of the previously established manhood

Alexis de Tocqueville was a French sociologist and a political theorist. He grew up in France, however, traveled to America to study the prison system and returned to France with a broader knowledge and observation from the United States. He condensed his finding in a book called “Democracy in America,” which he published in 1835. In the book, he showed how he admired the individualism and the stability of the economy, yet questioned its embrace of slavery and treatment of Native Americans.

Driving down the road, Louis Szilard and Eugene Vignat were Hungarian scientists on a mission to convince one of the top scientists to join their cause. It was this conversation that lead to the end of the war in the Pacific and the death of over 100,000 people. This trip was the eve of World War II in the summer of 1939 and they were searching for Albert Einstein. A prominent figure in the science community, Einstein held a platform that other physics did not; one that allowed him access to political leaders. The Hungarian scientists believed that the Nazi’s were working on their potential weapon so they proposed that they develop a bomb for the American.

It is said that every human is an eye that can see but one ray of the unified truth, but often we become blind even to that particular ray. A remedial text to open our eyes, Nature is designed to bring man back to a “medicinal” nature so that we can once again awaken to see the world and experience it in its true form (Emerson, 11). Arguing that there are two parts to the universe, the soul and nature, Emerson elucidates how “the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind,” although conventionally these facets are viewed as two distinct and disjointed entities (Emerson, 19). Isolated from nature, man does not understand that they are the manifestation of nature, and instead they become enslaved by convention. The standard which projects meaning and significance to the world, the quintessential man only becomes human through the interaction and unity with his surrounding world as he seeks to discover nature and himself through beauty.

Though Karl Marx and Alexis de Tocqueville differ, they both contributed greatly to revolutionary concepts of their era. To better understand the analyses between politics, social, and economic changes Marx and Tocqueville discuss, we must first understand the shift of their time and the need for sociological analysis. The 19th century was a time of change and adaptation for everyone and few scholars were capable and willing to understand the impacts these changes would have on society and its entities. Both industrial and democratic revolutions affected their times and created shifts in society. The industrialization affected many aspects of society. It created a structural change in the economy shifting from agrarian income to industrial and commercial income. Technology impacted labour force and production shifting to large-scale manufacturing creating new types of investments. These changes affected class structure, migration, and workers which in turn affected economy and a shift in politics.

Humankind has been around for many generations now. There has always been a “right way” for individual to behave. In the past people had their roles assigned by society. Even now in the 21 century where things have changed, and there is more freedom of, people are being asked to behave in certain ways. This can be the result of many different factors mixed together. Men as a group, are not the exception to the rule. There still are many ideas and beliefs of how a man must be. Writer Paul Theroux on his essay “Being a man” criticizes the way society see men and the accessories that support this idea. After reading his essay, I felt really good, because I could not agree more with him on this topic.