In Francis Fukuyama’s book “The End of History and the Last Man” he demonstrates a positive outlook on Western liberal democracy by stating that no other type of human government will succeed it. Political ideologies throughout history have formed while some have disappeared‚ becoming more and less popular on an international scale. It is perplexing to me that Fukuyama ignored this and believed that there would be no progression from the liberal democracy government form. Fukuyama later on contradicts
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The end of the Cold War in 1991 took the world by storm and theorists looked and searched for new theories to explain every international skirmish and conflict. They could no longer use the struggle between democracy and Marxist Leninist dictatorship of the proletariat as an explanation. Francis Fukuyama and Samuel P. Huntington came up with two controversial theories to explain the basis for future disputes between nation states. The End of the World by Francis Fukuyama and the Clash of Civilizations
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In the article of “The future of history” by Francis Fukuyama‚ it is about the political ad economic issue of the decline of the middle class in the world after the global financial crisis in 2008. Fukuyama states the important of the middle class in a social. He thinks that if liberal democracy do not have the support of this middle class‚ they will lose their anchor. Although we all know that a government should protect the benefit of this middle class‚ they do not know what is the main point
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Summary The subject of the book is the fact that all societies in the world‚ with rare exceptions and some delays and setbacks‚ are generally moving towards liberal democracy. Throughout the work‚ Fukuyama compares liberal democracy with other economic systems‚ highlighting why‚ perhaps‚ this particular one has the biggest chance of becoming the last one the human kind has ever known‚ putting in other words why is liberal democracy “the right one”. These highlights throughout the book are being
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Is GE of humans likely? For plants like Roundup Ready soybeans and animals like the cats above‚ the technology already exists and is in actual use to some extent. For humans‚ Fukuyama seems to believe that it can occur as soon as the main obstacles are overcome. One main obstacle is the complexity of the relationship between DNA and human traits. Will we ever know which genes influence intelligence and master how to manipulate them? However‚ as computer technology and understanding of genetic
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The essay “To what extent was Francis Fukuyama’s ‘The End of History?’ premature?”‚ focuses on how “The End of History” was written under the assumption that no other major life changing events could occur. In doing so‚ Darie MacFadden approaches his essay by examining history as it unfolds between the years of 1989-2001 and 2001- to the present. MacFadden narrows down his topic by focusing specifically on how history prevailed before and after the horrific September 11 attack. Furthermore‚ he asserts
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THE PRIMACY OF CULTURE By Francis Fukuyama Democracy’s Future Francis Fukuyama argues that for any new ideology or political trend to emerge that rival those of liberal democracy‚ it requires the precursor of developments at the level of civic society and culture. Accordingly‚ he sees the only civic society‚ and culture that seems poised to do so is Asia. Fukuyama bases his judgment on the claim that for the consolidation of democracy‚ there must exist four levels of change: On the first
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Rahimi 1 Liora Rahimi Ms. Maher English 1102 8 April 2012 Fukuyama Quest to Dignity Humanity can be viewed and practiced in infinite ways‚ in fact most individuals see this concept differently as they have their own perception of what humanity is comprised of. Francis Fukuyama the author of “Human Dignity‚” argues that human dignity is attained through a concept which he coined as Factor X. This term simply defines how a human being can attain dignity once he or she is stripped of their
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It May Just Be the End of History The end of history has not arrived‚ but it is a matter of time before it arrives. Fukuyama argues that the end of history will arrive when liberal democracy becomes the only form of government in all the countries. It will also be the last government to exist. Fukuyama emphasizes that once the earth is in a homogenous state‚ history will end. Fukuyama is correct in stating that the end of political evolution will end with the spread of liberal democracy‚ but with
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The End of History? – A Reconstruction of Fukuyama’s Thesis. In the closing stages of the Cold War in 1989‚ Francis Fukuyama declared that we were witnessing the end of history. This did not mean the end of events; rather the end of mankind’s ideological evolution. In other words‚ the search for the optimal political and economic system. Fukuyama draws largely on G.W.F. Hegel‚ as interpreted by Alexandre Kojève. For Hegel‚ ‘history’ culminated in an “absolute moment” in which a final‚ rational
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