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Navigating Interstitial Spaces


?[T]he law permits the Americans to do what they please.?
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

The protection of virtue, I submit, requires an understanding of interstitial spaces?spaces where formalist adherence to rules and laws does not suffice to adequately promote virtue. Recognition of these spaces spawned agent morality and Aristotle?s practical wisdom. Fascination with these spaces fueled Alexis de Tocqueville?s inquiry into American religious, familial and political mores in Democracy in America. Though America?s formal, codified laws of the 1830s granted ?dangerous freedom? to the individual, Americans managed to navigate interstitial spaces with assiduous virtue. This discussion will briefly connect threads from Aristotle?s Ethics, Plato?s Republic, and Pericles? funeral oration to preface a more extensive examination of Tocqueville?s careful study of the institutions which reinforced virtue within America?s interstitial spaces. The conclusion will examine and evaluate the doctrine of ?self-interest rightly understood? as... [to view the full essay now, purchase below]

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