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Tocqueville 's Equality Thought And Its Enlightenment To China' S Political Development

Posted on:2017-03-12Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W Q XuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2206330488471682Subject:Political Theory
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In the history is very important in the word "equality", along with the development of the time after countless people to explore, equal connotation rich gradually, which tocqueville awareness of equality and the interpretation is especially important. Among studies tocqueville’s thought, most people in-depth research of tocqueville’s democracy thought, but after deep and careful analysis can be found, "equality" is often as the pronoun of "democracy" and "born equal" is not only a self-evident truth at that time also is to achieve the first proposition, and the rights of freedom and happiness is based on equality PaShengXing rights, on the basis of this principle is the ultimate pursuit of human society. Tocqueville equality thoughts have a specific background, outstanding performance in the history of development, with the United States, the system of people’s sovereignty principle, social checks and balances mechanism factors and conditions of the cultural roots of the national education. Tocqueville’s equality in main content performance, tocqueville equality and democracy and freedom of the mouth of the intimate relationship, the identity equality is the core concept of equality, he will be something other individual identity equality as the reason, is the fundamental starting point of all the things. Analysis for creating moderate tolerance in tocqueville equality of public spirit to provide a new Angle of view, in order to solve the contradiction of freedom and equality to create new approach, human development theory provides a new interpretation of the value and described the equal reality too idealistic, equal to easy to cause the majority tyranny gave no effective solution, the connotation of the equal class has its limitations, understand the content of tocqueville’s equal thought, combined with the current promoting equal basic public services in China’s political development, accelerate the process of construction of the rule of law in China, is very significance to expand citizens’ orderly political participation.
Keywords/Search Tags:Tocqueville, Ideology of equality, the political development
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