POL101Y1 Chapter Notes -Westernization
18 Jan 2012
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In the essay, the end of history, fukuyama claims that soon there will be no more history to be made. This is because his definition of history is mankind s ideological evolution (fukuyama. 201). this evolution consists of mankind evolving from savages to civilized human beings. Along the way, there have been innumerable conflicts and atrocities, which we record and define as history . However, fukuyama believes that currently we have achieved the highest form of government, which he believes is liberal democracy. As liberal democracy slowly spreads, this will eventually eliminate all conflicts, except for the ones motivated by economic development. Fukuyama cites the defeat of japan and the imposition of american democrac. Francis fukuyama wrote a very interesting article called the end of history? he was mainly saying in a hypothetical sense that the world s society will simply stop evolving and maintain peace, and stability without war and conflict.
