POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Washington Consensus, Liberal Democracy, Beijing Consensus
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Man is by nature a political animal and he who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself. Try to understand the world in a systematic way so it will make a sense of the world we live in. How do we make sense of it. By simplifying, by focusing on what matters and ignoring what doesn"t. Is the world becoming more democratic and more peaceful. Francis fukuyama was one of the first thinkers about this theme, in 1989 summerm he realized something was changing, supporting himself on hegel. The idea of liberty, you see materiality, Hegel looks at human history, he sees the march of the spirit. The history of people, or is is the history of wars, or is the history of ideas, (people and wars pass, but ideas remain, are only pass when they meet with greater or bigger ideas)
