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Hace 4 días · 3 days ago. Many famous authors have discussed the dangers of misuse of power in democracy, among them the nineteenth-century philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville. In Democracy in America, he pointed out how easy it is for a democracy to turn totalitarian if it becomes the tyranny of the mob. It would be an ochlocracy, as the ancient Greeks called ...
Hace 22 horas · It was in this context that Alexis de Tocqueville, a French diplomat and political scientist, made his famous observations about the "tyranny of the majority" in his landmark work Democracy in America (1835/1840). Based on his travels in the young United States, Tocqueville admired many aspects of American democracy.
Hace 2 días · Introduction. 1 Le 10 mai 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, juge auditeur au tribunal de Versailles, et Gustave de Beaumont, substitut, débarquaient dans le port de New York. Ils resteront aux États-Unis jusqu’au 20 février 1832. De ce séjour de neuf mois aux États-Unis, on le sait, Tocqueville rapportera la matière de son ouvrage le plus célèbre, De la démocratie en Amérique.
Hace 3 días · Una fuente casi obligatoria para reflexionar sobre el tema es la clásica obra de Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracia en América, cuyos dos tomos fueron publicados por primera vez en 1835 y 1840 ...
Hace 3 días · In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville noted the connection between the capacity for local self-government and the capacity for settler colonialism. Contrasting the failure to create “a great French nation in the American wilderness” with the Anglo-American success, Tocqueville commented:
Hace 1 día · They follow Alexis de Tocqueville in thinking there is a deep affinity between Christian doctrine and the Left’s push for more equality: with its traditional elevation of the poor and humble and its castigation of the rich and powerful, Christianity is in an important respect a more natural ally for the Left than for the Right.
Hace 3 días · Alexis de Tocqueville observed that being freeholders changed the way in which Americans thought of themselves and the political structure: “Why, in a quintessentially democratic country like America, does one hear no complaints about property in general such as those that often resound through Europe?
