Happiness And The Good Life Alexis De Tocqueville Analysis
Theme 2: Happiness and the Good Life
Work 4: “Why the Americans show themselves so restive in the midst of their well-being” By: Alexis de Tocqueville
1. The theme of this article is how Americans are the freest and most enlightened men but they are never happy with what they have.
2. This was written in 1805 by Tocqueville who thought while he was writing Democracy in America that no American would ever see what he said about our way of life and our government.
3. I don’t know who this was written for because he never meant it for America, it might have been just for him because he traveled in America for the purpose of seeing what a “great republic” was and then wrote Democracy in America on his findings.
4. While
Work 4: “Why the Americans show themselves so restive in the midst of their well-being” By: Alexis de Tocqueville
1. The theme of this article is how Americans are the freest and most enlightened men but they are never happy with what they have.
2. This was written in 1805 by Tocqueville who thought while he was writing Democracy in America that no American would ever see what he said about our way of life and our government.
3. I don’t know who this was written for because he never meant it for America, it might have been just for him because he traveled in America for the purpose of seeing what a “great republic” was and then wrote Democracy in America on his findings.
4. While