Abstract

ANCHUSTEGUI-IGARTUA, Esteban. About epigones and pioneers. Isócrates and Tocqueville at the crossroads. Prax. filos. [online]. 2013, n.37, pp.147-168. ISSN 0120-4688.

This article reflects on two authors who witnessed the decline of two separate political and historical periods, but whose thinking is still present the political imagination that characterized the tense period in the same way that their texts analyze the causes that produced such decline. Like this, Isocrates pursues the defense of the greek democratical idea and the return to the ancient Athenean constitution, denouncing the errors and proposing the conditions that would enable the restoration; Toqueville, meanwhile, writes The Old Regime and the Revolution, motivated by deep regret that the aftermath of revolutionary hurricane occurred in it, analyzing the errors and motivations that made the historical cataclysm launched by the revolutionary process, at the same time that unmasks the system of oppression and despotism that has been accomplished with the triumph of the Revolution

Keywords : democracy; equality; oligarchy; Old Regime; Revolution; freedom.

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