Francis FukuyamaThe End of History

The End of Historyrise and fall of major ideologies (absolutism, fascism and communism)

human history: a battle of ideologies reached its end in the universalisation of Western liberal democracy

the realisation is still in progress, but the idea of Western liberalism is instilled

ideas Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

French Revolution

embodiment of ideologies in the world will cease history

History is a progressive evolution of institutions and economies ... not events would stop happening but we seem to be evolving in a certain direction direction of liberal democracy and market economy.

It is not sufficient to point to "problems" in contemporary liberal democracies - a "problem" does not become a "contradiction" unless it is so serious that it not only cannot be solved within the system, but corrodes the legitimacy of the system itself such that the latter collapses under its own weight.

Michael Hardimon: reconciliation is not consolationReconciliation is not a matter of thinking that everything is wonderful. Hegel's celebrated rich and suggestive claim that reconciliation consists in recognizing "reason as the rose in the cross of the present.

Reconciliation is the movement that makes estrangement ... Disappear (Hegel)

According to Hegel, people, modern people, are fully at home in the social world if and only if the social world is a home, they grasp that the social world is a home, they feel at home in the social world and they accept and affirm the social world

Liberal democracy parameterProcess rather than result

If man is primarily an economic animal driven by his desire and reason, then the dialectical process of historical evolution should be reasonably similar for different human societies and cultures

(Fukuyama, 1992: 133)

The nature of human capital

No political correctness castrating females or raping girls between the ages of 2 and 6

Conclusion

Metaphysics and sociological analysisNot a clear analytical formulation

There can be no end to history things never sit still for long enough

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