Xidias Jason
Xidias Jason - An Analysis Of Francis Fukuyama's The End Of History And The Last Man - Paperback
Xidias Jason - An Analysis Of Francis Fukuyama's The End Of History And The Last Man - Paperback
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Description: Francis Fukuyama's controversial 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man demonstrates an important aspect of creative thinking: the ability to generate hypotheses and create novel explanations for evidence. In the case of Fukuyama's work the central hypothesis and explanation he put forward were not in fact new but they were novel in the academic and historical context of the time. Fukuyama's central argument was that the end of the Cold War was a symptom of and a vital waypoint in a teleological progression of history. Interpreting history as teleological is to say that it is headed towards a final state or end point: a state in which matters will reach an equilibrium in which things are as good as they can get. For Fukuyama this would mean the end of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government . This grand theory which sought to explain the end of the Cold War through a single overarching hypothesis made the novel step of resurrecting the German philosopher G. W. F. Hegel's theory of history which had long been ignored by practical historians and political philosophers and applying it to current events.
Title: An Analysis Of Francis Fukuyama's The End Of History And The Last Man
Author(s): Xidias Jason
Publisher: Macat International Limited
Barcode: 9781912127917
Pages: 112 Pages
Publication Date: 7/15/2017
Series: The Macat Library
Category: Political Science & Theory
Description: Francis Fukuyama's controversial 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man demonstrates an important aspect of creative thinking: the ability to generate hypotheses and create novel explanations for evidence. In the case of Fukuyama's work the central hypothesis and explanation he put forward were not in fact new but they were novel in the academic and historical context of the time. Fukuyama's central argument was that the end of the Cold War was a symptom of and a vital waypoint in a teleological progression of history. Interpreting history as teleological is to say that it is headed towards a final state or end point: a state in which matters will reach an equilibrium in which things are as good as they can get. For Fukuyama this would mean the end of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government . This grand theory which sought to explain the end of the Cold War through a single overarching hypothesis made the novel step of resurrecting the German philosopher G. W. F. Hegel's theory of history which had long been ignored by practical historians and political philosophers and applying it to current events.
Title: An Analysis Of Francis Fukuyama's The End Of History And The Last Man
Author(s): Xidias Jason
Publisher: Macat International Limited
Barcode: 9781912127917
Pages: 112 Pages
Publication Date: 7/15/2017
Series: The Macat Library
Category: Political Science & Theory
