POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Primitive Communism, Teleology, For Marx
Document Summary
The end of history and the last of man . What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the cold war, but the end of history as such. That is the end of man kind"s ideological evolution. Teleology is the philosophical study of design and purpose. A teleological theory is one that holds all things to be designed to an end. The most well - known teleological theory is marxism. Primitive communism- slave society- feudalism- capitalism- socialism- communism. Fukuyama takes marx"s teleological way of thinking and turns it on his head. He believes that democracy is the end of history. He means that the world is not going to end. He means that history has achieved its end point. Democracy is becoming less democratic and is not here to stay. If the will of the majority is good, then the outcome will be good.
