Jiang groups the Bible, Virgil, Pax Romana, and Fukuyama as variants of line-history because each imagines movement toward an end point where conflict is resolved.
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Fukuyama
Jiang groups the Bible, Virgil, Pax Romana, and Fukuyama as variants of line-history because each imagines movement toward an end point where conflict is resolved.
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Jiang summarizes Fukuyama's end-of-history argument as the claim that liberal democracy is the victorious synthesis after capitalism and communism, using Hegel's dialectic as the intellectual frame.
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"on us in a useless cycle it is moving towards a truth is moving towards a good end okay so then this idea has..."
"...about current history then you know about a man named Francis Fukuyama who's an American who works for the government and he was something..."
"...actually works for the American State Department. His name is Francis Fukuyama. And he wrote an extremely influential essay called The End of History...."
"...synthesis. And this is how history moves or progresses. And so Fukuyama takes this idea and says, okay, well, this explains what's happening today...."
"Okay? Capitalism. And this creates the industrial revolution. Right? And because capitalism was too extreme, we move towards communism. Okay? Communism was created to..."
"...Wall fell, there was an American State Department official named Francis Fukuyama. And he wrote a very influential essay called The End of History...."
"...that was introduced by an American State Department official named Francis Fukuyama at the end of the Cold War when the Berlin Wall fell...."
"...against each other. Okay? So this is the argument that Francis Fukuyama. Makes in the end of history. I want to explain this argument..."
"...the consumerism is the perfection of slavery. And that's why Francis Fukuyama thinks that consumerism is the end of history, because it is a..."
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History is not a cycle, and it is not a line moving politely toward truth.
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