POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Francis Fukuyama, Liberal Democracy, Teleology
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Teleology is the philosophical study of design and purpose. Believed each phase contained seeds of its own destruction leading to the next. As a result, communism was the highest achievement of government. Fukuyama believed democracy is the highest point of human political organization: the endpoint of history. Fukuyama"s argument was the connect kaplan used to make his. Real democracy is hardly widespread (most countries are not ready to adapt). Democracy is becoming less democratic (not here to stay). Going through the arguments he states in the text: De nes democracy as a set of institutions that ful ll the will of the people. which translates into policy and leaders. However, hitler was brought into power through democracy. Ex, if trump is elected democratically we can conclude the will of the people will lead to bad. Uses a thin de nition of democracy (in terms of elections) Countries worldwide are only taking elections to deem democratic.
