Chapter seven of the first part of Volume Two of Democracy in America is a small‚ one-page chapter whose importance may not initially be perceived by even an attentive reader‚ but contains Alexis de Tocqueville’s view on democratic pantheism. It is by no coincidence that his essay on pantheism follows two significant chapters on the principal source of beliefs among the democratic peoples and America’s preference for general ideas. Tocqueville argued that‚ in order for a society to be successful
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path we choose to take the one that benefits the individual or the one that benefits the greater good. No matter whose view we look at it all comes back to the same thing conflict and how we deal with it. Berman quotes from Democracy in America‚ Alexis de Tocqueville and he talks about the American life how its full of worry and how people pursue success that eludes them forever in which they are seeking materialistic success with the largest return in the shortest amount of time. Both men in the
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Pennsylvania who wrote under the pseudonym J. Hector St. John‚ was impressed by the democratic nature of early American society. It was not until the 19th century that these tendencies in America were most fully expressed. When French political writer Alexis de Tocqueville‚ an acute social observer‚ traveled through the United States in the 1830s‚ he provided an unusually penetrating portrait of the nature of democracy in America and its cultural consequences. He commented that in all areas of culture—family
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Alexis De Tocqueville explains in Democracy in America: “Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free.” Tocqueville explains that being free is very valuable and this is in turn help with furthering justice. Dissent furthers justice by taking into
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There were many reform movements which took place during the 1800s leading up to the Civil War‚ a primary effect of these movements. Still‚ each different campaign had at least one aspect of similarity: their cause. Antebellum reform was motivated primarily by humanitarian goals due to the influences of evangelicalism‚ human morale‚ and democratic ideals. Religion played a major role in the lives of all citizens during the building and expansion of the United States into the West. Its greatest influence
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the rise of capitalism in terms of what he coins: reflections on an episode of intellectual history. The next step will be to view some of the key names mentioned in the third part of the text. These writers include the likes of Adam Ferguson and Alexis de Tocqueville. What are easily identifiable are a respect for the historical figures that preceded them and also a respect for the magnitude of their vision. On the other hand‚ a gradual divergence into the realms of new ideas can be seen‚ fuelled
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Manchester is a city in England that experienced tremendous growth between the 1750’s and 1850’s. The population grew from 18‚000 in 1750 to over 300‚000 by the census of 1851. This growth called for more homes and factories to be built in order to support the growing population. With the constructing of more factories to support the rise in population came the growth of industry and manufacturing. The growth of the city‚ along with these factories‚ brought about several issues other than the manufacturing
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Democracy in the United States has had many interpretations based on success and failures‚ Alexis de Tocqueville initially details how in comparison to Europe‚ the United States has established a problematic and darker side of democracy. American Democracy like any “great experiment” is undoubtedly bound to have flaws‚ Tocqueville highlights these flaws he noticed on his nine-month trip to the United States. The reason Tocqueville chose to focus on the United States‚ in particular‚ is because its
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Americans seem to inherently focus on individualism and self-interest‚ according to Caleb Jacobo and Alexis de Tocqueville. Tocqueville‚ a Frenchman who visited and wrote about America in the 19th century‚ and Jacobo‚ an American writing in the present day‚ have similar ideas despite their cultural differences. Jacob argues that this natural focus on individualism comes from America’s founders who came here in order to escape the popular statism in Europe‚ as he says that “America was built on the
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body politic. While democracy is currently relatively non-controversial‚ this was not the case during its establishment. The democratic experiment in America was viewed somewhat indifferently by many of the world’s prominent political philosophers. Alexis de Tocqueville and John Stuart Mill existed among those most apprehensive of the democratic experiment. To each of these men‚ democracy certainly possessed certain positive attributes‚ but at the same time‚ represented a potential threat to the individual
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