Sentences with phrase «when modern democracies»
More specific to the song's charges, there is no elite with war - loving tendencies who are the ones who really decide when modern democracies go to war.
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We have entered times when many of Tocqueville's more depressing predictions about modern democracy are being borne out, and actually experienced, although of course in less dramatic ways that he sketched.
Only since the last century have the Chinese started to reflect critically on Confucian thought, beginning with the May Fourth Movement of 1919 when many leading intellectuals introduced Western ideas of modern science and democracy into the country, knocking Confucianism off its altar.
As Alexis de Tocqueville points out in Democracy in America, however, we modern democratic persons refuse to defer to the privileged claims of aristocrats even or especially when they're deserved.
A third line of reasoning would have us believe that East Asian intellectuals did not understand Western liberalism and democracy when first confronted with it in the early modern period.