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Every year, the Tocqueville Program sponsors a course
and brings prominent public intellectuals to Furman’s campus
with the aim of encouraging serious and open engagement with the
moral questions at the heart of political life.
The program takes it name from Alexis de Tocqueville,
perhaps the greatest student of modern democracy, who understood
both the difficulty and the necessity of reminding citizens of a
decent and prosperous regime about questions of truth, nobility
and eternity. These questions are not always comfortable to discuss
and are never easily resolved; but, as Tocqueville understood, these
questions cannot be ignored by human beings who seek to live lives
of freedom and dignity.
The program consists of a course: PSC-275, “Issues in Political
Thought,” and campus visits by major figures who will give
both a class lecture and a university-wide public addresses on that
year’s theme. These lectures are free and open to the public.
The inaugural program will commence in Spring semester
of 2009 and will be offered for a second time during Spring 2010.
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