Tocqueville cannot be described as an Aristotelian (see Chap. 19). There is no chapter in his main work, Democracy in America, or in his late work, The Old Regime and the Revolution, that explicitly deals with the separation of private and public. However, it cannot be said that he was unaware of the Aristotelian fundamental distinction between polis and oikos, politics and the private sphere. When Tocqueville examines the inner workings of democracy (see Chap. 56), he essentially always has this separation in mind. He analyses the phenomena he addresses in his study of democracy, also with a view to the question of what effects they have for his homme démocratique and differentiates between the private and the public. Examples of the different phenomena are individualism (see Chap. 67), the love of material well-being, or soft despotism (see Chap. 57).