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some sense, by our lack of perspective. Most of us live in a democracy like fish who live only in water and are therefore blinded ...
a true democracy, de Tocqueville noted, quantity or reproductions of objects are necessary to satisfy equal need. In his consider...
In five pages this paper compares and contrasts what each author's intentions are in their respective works along with the sense o...
which Tocqueville noted between white and red, between savage and civilized, was an ever-present factor, in fact in the interactio...
In six pages the history of ideas is examined within the context of Democracy in America in an evaluation of de Tocqueville's argu...
In five pages de Tocqueville's notion that the black slave is unaware of his status is disproved with the Narrative of the Life of...
in certain ways it is a lot more difficult. Equality, he saw, was the key to the democratic enterprise. To de Tocqueville, the ide...
and find neither peril nor advantage in the free interchange of their thoughts. If they meet by accident, they neither seek nor av...
the 1920s" (Zaretsky, 2004, p. 39). Thanks to Lincolns brand of politics, America was well on its way to achieving superpower sta...
new "homes," black slaves suffered. Plantation overseers thought nothing about whipping slaves to make them work faster (they wer...
Marx, the freedom was not in the ability to acquire wealth, or the opportunities, but rather in equality. It was the ability to li...
Virtuous action was defined by Aristotle as what a person with practical wisdom would choose. The golden mean, as defined by Ari...
light of that, what would Tocqueville say about democracy in America today? Likely, he would say the same things but would be much...
of the lower classes in civilized countries. This, then, is one of the central themes to Volume one, which is the nature of equali...
In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares the democracy perspectives of Cyril Lionel Robert James and Alexis de Tocqueville...
In five pages this paper examines Plato and de Tocqueville's views regarding democracy in a contrast and comparison of what democr...
The credence of de Tocqueville's observation, 'Two tendencies in fact result from equality; the one first leads men directly to in...
et la revolution (The Old Regime and the French Revolution) in 1856 (Tocqueville interleaf). Alexis Tocqueville died in 1859, wit...
change to the ethnic and cultural make-up of the United States. He also didnt foresee the growth of major cities, or the changes t...
In five pages this paper discusses individualism and how it relates to democracy in a comparative analysis of the perspectives of ...
replete with meaning, should be required (Smidt 176). That statement is rather strong but Tocqueville did not mean that the govern...
faced with the problem of having to decide who has control over this surplus and this provides the seeds of class struggle. Mark ...
to drop, though it often seems to hold them loosely." He admires them for these qualities and then discusses how the American peop...
In six pages this paper examines how individualism, society, and political ideology are perceived by this trio of sociopolitical p...
In five pages this paper speculates on how Tocqueville's Democracy in America may have been reacted to by Emerson. Two sources ar...
Stuart Mill (that is, if they had been contemporaries). Both men believed that the greatest threat posed by democratic rule was in...
In five pages similarities and simplicity are examined in a comparison of the concepts espoused by this trio of political philosop...
In five pages Ayn Rand and Alexis de Tocqueville's perspectives are applied to the problems of the individual as the result of dem...
to a head. To understand those differences it is instructive to look at writing from the early years of our history. Tocqueville ...
This essay refers to the writing of contemporary author Theodore Olsen and nineteenth century author Alexis de Tocqueville to argu...