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Alexis de Tocqueville on Enlightened Self Interest

Alexis de Tocqueville on Enlightened Self Interest

Tocqueville was generous, both with his biting criticisms and his reverent praises, whereby as a matter of necessity due to one social system springing out of the other – like Athena from the head of Zeus – the democratic experiment was compared most obviously with its aristocratic parent.

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Who Has Consented to War?

Who Has Consented to War?

In the past, the kings and rulers who declared war rode into it at the head of their troops. There was no question of whether or not they believed in what they were doing when their own lives were first in the firing line.

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