Alexis de Tocqueville’s Citizenship: A Model of Collective Virtue (unofficial draft)

In Peter J. Boettke and Adam Martin, The Political Economy of Alexis de Tocqueville (forthcoming)
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In this chapter I argue that Alexis de Tocqueville describes the virtue of citizenship in a way that is relevant to contemporary virtue ethics. He explains how a group can possess a virtue that is distinct from the virtue of individual members of the group. (this is an unofficial draft)

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