According to Tocqueville, the inevitable triumph of democracy, or what he calls the democratic condition, may lead either to a condition of slavery or human freedom.

Section III: 1. According to Tocqueville, the inevitable triumph of democracy, or what he calls the democratic condition, may lead either to a condition of slavery or human freedom. His fear is that the real driving force of democracy, the passion for equality, is compatible with tyranny as well as with liberty. (Discuss) 2. Adam Smith’s hope was for a free, reasonable, comfortable and tolerable life for the whole species, and the key to this lay in the science of economics. (Discuss) 3. In his works, Hume emerges as both a skeptical philosopher and a common-sense moralist and political theorist. (Discuss)