Cafe Hayek: De Tocqueville on the Intrinsic Value of Freedom
Robert Cote
· 3 years ago
Alexis de Tocqueville had the luxury of a pressure valve. Vote with your feet and reject the restrictions of a Republic. Where should we modern day de Tocquevilles go?
sourav
· 3 years ago
I would argue that the "charm" of freedom is, in fact, an extrinsic value.
Swimmy
· 3 years ago
Cannot the Iraq war be justified with this belief?
Duncan Brown
· 3 years ago
I'm sure your life is really hard! I find much of your blog to be fresh and relevant, but this post is kind of a paranoid rant: "Now such men and women who love freedom so dearly [/why are you so self-congratulatory?/] are easily accused, chastised, castigated as being ideologues -- as if commitment to some non-material value is shameful or evidence of simple-mindedness."
Alexis de T. was surely a prophetic thinker. I've read and reread Democracy in America over the years, but not the other book.
My nominee for freedom's big prize in 2006 is my brother Chris, who worked productively, saved, and lived frugally, and then retired to Merida, in the Yucatan, because he finds American puritanism and hyprocrisy cramping his style. He started a weblog last may (on blogger called "Ruminations of an Expatrriate." It's way more relevant.
Duncan Brown
· 3 years ago
Chris's blog is a piquant blend of travel writing and photos with outraged diatribes on the Bush Administration. In case you're wondering: http://expatriateruminations.blogspot.com/</p>
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Alexis de Tocqueville had the luxury of a pressure valve. Vote with your feet and reject the restrictions of a Republic. Where should we modern day de Tocquevilles go?
I would argue that the "charm" of freedom is, in fact, an extrinsic value.
Cannot the Iraq war be justified with this belief?
I'm sure your life is really hard! I find much of your blog to be fresh and relevant, but this post is kind of a paranoid rant: "Now such men and women who love freedom so dearly [/why are you so self-congratulatory?/] are easily accused, chastised, castigated as being ideologues -- as if commitment to some non-material value is shameful or evidence of simple-mindedness."
Alexis de T. was surely a prophetic thinker. I've read and reread Democracy in America over the years, but not the other book.
My nominee for freedom's big prize in 2006 is my brother Chris, who worked productively, saved, and lived frugally, and then retired to Merida, in the Yucatan, because he finds American puritanism and hyprocrisy cramping his style. He started a weblog last may (on blogger called "Ruminations of an Expatrriate." It's way more relevant.
Chris's blog is a piquant blend of travel writing and photos with outraged diatribes on the Bush Administration. In case you're wondering: http://expatriateruminations.blogspot.com/</p>