Even though Aristotle is rarely mentioned in Tocqueville’s complete works – in the correspondence with Gustave de Beaumont (where it is Beaumont who mentions him) and in the Mélanges – some themes can be identified that are common to both thinkers and that, even if they do not suggest a direct influence of the Greek philosopher on the Frenchman, still allow the assertion of spiritual kinship. Just like Aristotle, Tocqueville also divides society into three classes (Rollet 1998, 37), and just like the author of the Nicomachean Ethics and Politics, he too advocates the ideal of moderation. And like Aristotle – and later Hegel – Tocqueville also wants to bind the individual to an ethos. Therefore, it is not surprising when communitarian thinkers refer to Aristotle and Tocqueville and look for remedies against the socially disintegrative tendencies of modern societies in these two thinkers. If one looks at both thinkers against the background of their respective epochs, a significant difference between them can be identified: Aristotle writes at a time when democracy has fallen victim to despotism; Tocqueville writes at a time when absolutism is giving way to democracy. Aristotle mourns certain positive characteristics of the democratic age; Tocqueville mourns certain positive characteristics of the aristocratic age. However, Tocqueville also claims to reconcile the ancient virtues, which Aristotle refers to as the polis, with Christian universalism (Coenen-Huther 1997, 25). The grandeur also appears as a substitute for the good life directed towards contemplation, as found in Aristotle (Mansfield 2014, 240).