1. Liberty in Democracy
A crucial specification in the understanding of Tocqueville's philosophy of democracy in this particular context is that when Tocqueville talks about equality, he does not mean "equality of income, education or anything in particular", but "the absence of social obstacles to whatever ambitions an American entertained"3, so a kind of equality that entails freedom of movement in the social sphere, the liberty to pursue one's goals. In the United States, Tocqueville notices this stable equation of liberty and equality that transcends the social towards the politica...
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