Reducing religion & morality to what is “useful”

More from Daniel Schwindt on de Tocqueville, this time about how Americans–because of their rationalism and individualism–tend to see both religion and morality in terms of what is “useful.”  (Again, thanks to Daniel Broaddus.) From Daniel Schwindt, Refuting Tocqueville by Way of Tocqueville – Ethika Politika: Elsewhere Tocqueville daringly elaborates that religious notions, under this [Read More...]