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An Analysis of Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man - The End of History and the Last Man (Hardcover)
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An Analysis of Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man - The End of History and the Last Man (Hardcover)
Series: The Macat Library
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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.
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