The Protestant Ethic and Democracy in America: Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Between Tocqueville and Max Weber

Authors

  • Juan Pablo Angelone Facultad de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales. Universidad Nacional de Rosario

Abstract

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento considered the presence of Puritans and Quakers settlers in the United States as one of the factors that contributed in defining, together with the absence of miscegenation, a political and democratic consciousness in that country. The present paper systematizes such hypothesis, contrasting Sarmiento’s ideas with Alexis de Tocqueville’s about the puritanism-democracy relation, and with Max Weber’s ideas about the religious ethic-secular mind relation. In addition, it will be shown that the explanation based on the religious factor comes, to a large extent, to minimize the characteristic racialism of Sarmiento’s essay writing.

Author Biography

  • Juan Pablo Angelone, Facultad de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales. Universidad Nacional de Rosario
    Licenciado en Ciencia Política. Docente en las Cátedras de Pensamiento Sociopolítico I (Licenciatura en Comunicacion Social) y Análisis del Sistema Internacional (Licenciatura en Ciencia Política, Licenciatura en Relaciones Internacionales). Facultad de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales. Universidad Nacional de Rosario

Published

2020-06-04

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ARTÍCULOS DE INVESTIGACIÓN