Summary Of The End Of History

Much of a historian’s job is to read what their colleagues have written on their subject of interest at the moment. Often, they then go on to write their own opinions on the subject, thereby influencing the historians of the future. The famed historian and teacher Richard Hofstadter wrote The Age of Reform in 1955 about the late 19th century and early 20th century movement of Progressivism. In turn, other historians that include Paula Baker, Richard McCormick, and Peter Filene have written their opinion on what the movement we call Progressivism really was, and what its real significance is, or even if it really existed as a movement in its own right.

        6.  What was “Project Wagonwheel”?  Who were the major participants in the controversy? What sides of the issue did each represent?  What was the final result?

Burke’s picture of history uses the chaos of the French Revolution to frighten readers into valuing tradition over progression. Kant’s relatively abstract picture of history argues that society is progressing towards a utopian state. Tocqueville’s argument in Democracy in America argues for a balance of the two.

Francis Fukuyama; political scientist, economist, and author, in his article “The End of History?” discusses he rise and fall of major ideologies such as absolutism, fascism and communism, and suggests that human history should be viewed in terms of a battle of ideologies which has reached its end in the universalization of Western liberal democracy. Fukuyama concludes that the idea of Western liberal democracy has triumphed in the world through a variety of different ways and is a thriving piece of world order today. However, there are certain flaws to his argument including a US- centric view on the events of the twentieth century.

In his article, ‘The Worldwide Liberal Revolution’ he emphasizes on liberalization, democracy, and communism, authoritarian and totalitarian governments. He adds that there has been a much quieter revolution occurring over the past twenty or thirty odd years. This may be seen in the exceptional economic growth in East Asia since World War II.

Now the test is in simple view, we face the globalization of anti-globalization, a common face of populists, and nationalists on a worldwide spectrum. We must, consequently, support ourselves for a lengthy struggle, possibly even a generational struggle. This is but a post-liberal world. The forces after the popular front of populism are strong, and traditional parties are often weak, and such waves are not undone overnight.

Obviously looking back to twenty-six years ago when Fukuyama wrote “The End of History?” a lot has happened and changed since then. I think that Fukuyama like many Americans at the time of the Cold War ending fell into a false sense of security having the mindset that we had won and that the end of the Cold War meant the end of global conflicts. That liberal democracy was as Fukuyama put it “the final form of human government”. Fast forward twenty six years later and Fukuyama still says that liberal democracy still has no real competition “in the realm of ideas”. There may be no real competition, but that doesn’t mean that all democracies are doing well in today’s world. Many democracies have started to lean back towards authoritarian practices.

The common idea linking these two articles is Fukuyama theory - end of the world, that describes the process which started after the collapse of the Soviet Union. More and more countries around the world turned to the democratic system of government and eventually, the liberal democratic model will rule the world. The first article is talking about how the radical Islam tries to challenge the liberal democratic values but with not success, and the second article discuss the reasons

It is the year 4500 and all traces of human life has been wiped clean off the face of the earth. Before the event referred to as “The Beginning of the End”, all of Earth’s wealthiest people, who lacked a sense of private morality, took a ship to the planet, Tunasandwiches, where they escaped destruction and devastation, leaving the majority of Earth’s human population to rot with their loved ones. Among the rich that abandoned Earth was Donald Trump, who was the sole reason and cause for the downfall that occurred. Rather than admit to his mistake of negatively distorting the nation’s public morality, he decided to cover it up with distractions and with that, he released all creatures that were kept prisoner in Area 51. Upon seeing sunlight for the first time in over a century, the creatures whirled out of control and threatened the existence of humans, so in order to satisfy these unpredictable “things”, a

As Mark Mazower notes in his Dark Continent text the tale of democracy in the twentieth century, was not one of, an inevitable victory, but rather one “of narrow squeaks and unexpected twists,”.( Preface, Kindle Location 116). This paper will examine important events of the era that factored into the ideological fight for supremacy. While also highlighting examples that show that Europeans largely have not always been incredibly enthusiastic about democracy.

Where are we going? This is a fundamental question, one of several asked by the founders and thinkers of the world's largest religions. Each of the major religions has its own answer, and the study of these answers is called eschatology. In this essay, I'll take a secular look at the eschatological evolution of the Abrahamic religions, from Judaism to Christianity and finally to Islam. I will discuss the impact of these apocalyptic scenarios on people who do not practice each faith, and show that ultimately, answers to life's questions come from within.

To begin with Francis Fukuyama's, provocative thesis, that after the fall of communism in Europe and the withering of the grand ideological contests, history too has ended. In his "end of history" theory, he maintained that the western liberal democracy had become the `final form of human government'. The fact is that though not all theorists have this kind of a faith in liberal democracy, and believe that it's not the only feasible form of democracy, they are in a minority. The theoretical circles and the popular discourse have been dominated by "liberal democracy."

It’s 2134 and it’s some of the darkest times in human history. The world went into full World War Three, it was the new cold war, however this time all the countries that had nuclear war heads launched them at one another and put it in a full nuclear apocalypse. Only a handful of people at the time were able to escape and leave for space. After looking at the earth from space it was just one dark brown planet with nuclear storms. As the escapees looked past earth to find a new planet to start life they knew it was a long ways away. 134 days post apocalypse they shuttle found a small planet that was similar to earth. As the shuttle impacted in the ground the escapees landed in a complex full of rectangle shapes. These shapes had a door

While on a break before the last train departure at 5:30 I was reading the paper. Tensions between the East and the West are continuing to boil, as a result the only existing border could be closed down until diplomatic ambassadors came to a compromise. There are few political articles in the news. Most of it is international news, we don’t know much about what happens here. Whether it’s from the general lack of interest that’s associated with the bureaucratic autocracy or just apathy. Though much is known about history, the library has produced large volumes and accounts that are available to the public. One of my favorite books, out of fear or fascination, is the encyclopedia of the last century. The age of individuality and an idea called “the profit motive”. That’s the history of the old world. Maybe these journals will offer solace to me. I’m determined to write these however, it’s becoming something that I look forward to after arriving in my solid grey apartment the only time in a day.

In conclusion, however, I find that it is not a meaningful argument to examine if ‘the end of history’ has indeed taken place, simply because Francis Fukuyama has set the basis of his theory too wide. People will naturally gravitate towards having more options in their lives, be it socially, economically or in this case, politically. This tendency would thus make Fukuyama’s ‘end of history’ irrefutable. The more pertinent question to explore would be how the end goal of liberal democracy can be properly managed, with it being based on the twin principles of liberty and equality. At this end point of history as we know it, trade-offs have to be made between the two- equality cannot be achieved without the actions of a state controlling liberty, while liberty cannot be attained fully without social inequality. The end of history has dawned, where there would be no further meaningful challenge to liberal democracy, but a new battle awaits with the conundrum of balance between liberty and equality in liberal