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Francis Fukuyama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1254 words) |
 | Fukuyama's prophecy declares the eventual triumph of political and economic liberalism. |
| Fukuyama's thesis in this first book was based on a misprision (a "creative misreading" or "distortion") of Kojeve and Hegel's thesis that history in the limited sense of the struggle of ideologies had ended in the 19th century. |
| Fukuyama was a member of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2001-2005. |
| The End of History and the Last Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1603 words) |
| Fukuyama points out that since the beginning of the Nineteenth Century, democracy, which started off as being merely one amongst many systems of government, has grown until nowadays the majority of governments in the world are termed "democratic". |
| Fukuyama points to the economic and political difficulties that Iran and Saudi Arabia are facing, and argues that such states are fundamentally unstable: either they will become democracies with a Muslim society (like Turkey) or they will simply disintegrate. |
| Fukuyama himself later conceded that his thesis was incomplete, but for a different reason: "there can be no end of history without an end of modern natural science and technology" (quoted from Our Posthuman Future). |
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