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Tocqueville on the Doctrine of Interest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Peter Augustine Lawler
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HERE I WILL SHOW THE STRANGENESS OF ALEXIS DE Tocqueville's account of the doctrine of interest rightly understood. He affirms that doctrine, but not for the sake of interest. He wishes to preserve the greatness and the misery of the Americans’ very intense self-consciousness, and to keep open the possibility of spiritual responses to that experience.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , 01 April 1995 , pp. 221 - 239
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1995

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1 See, for example, Zetterbaum, Marvin, Tocqueville and the Problem of Democracy, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1967 Google Scholar; also, George Anastaplo, ‘On the Central Doctrine of Democracy in America’, in Masugi, K. (ed.), Interpreting Tocqueville’s ‘Democracy in America’, Savage, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 1991, pp. 425–61.Google Scholar

2 Consider Tocqueville, Democracy in America {DA), Volume 2, Part II, chapter 2, the last paragraph. I have generally relied on the George Lawrence translation of Democracy, Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1969. But I have also used the very literal translation of Volume 2, Part II, chapter 8, given by Anastaplo in his chapter.

3 Unless otherwise noted, quotations in this section are from Democracy in America (DA), 2, II, 4.

4 DA, 2, IV, 6.

5 DA, 2, II, 2.

6 DA, 2, IV, 3.

7 DA, 2, IV, 4.

8 DA, 2, II, 3.

9 DA, I, II, 2 with 2, II, I.

10 DA, 2, II, I.

11 Unless otherwise noted, quotations for the remainder of this essay are from DA, 2, II, 8.

12 DA, 2, I, 10.

13 DA, 2, II, 15.

14 DA, 2, II, 13, first paragraph.

15 DA, 2, I, 7.

16 DA, 2, II, 14.

17 DA, 2, II, 14.

18 DA, 2, II, 9.

19 DA, 2, II, 17.

20 DA, 2, II, 10.

21 DA, 2, II, 10.

22 DA, 2, II, 16.

23 DA, 2, II, 12 with 2, II, 13.

24 DA, 2, II, 9 with 2, II, 13 and 2, II, 15

25 DA, 2, II, 15.

26 DA, 2, II, I.

27 DA, 2, 1, 3.

28 DA, 2, IV, 8.

29 DA, 2, IV, 6.

30 DA, 2, II, I.

31 DA, 2, II, 5.

32 DA, 2, IV, 6 with 2, II, 18.