Fukuyama's The End of History

Fukuyama's article points out that the world is approaching "the end of history". Although the phrase "the end of history" seems to imply imminent fate and the end of the world. But this is not his proposal. Fukuyama believes that history, that is, the growth and development of human ideals and philosophy is about to peak. This article deeply explores various past eras such as the Renaissance and explains the pros and cons of major ideologies of those times.

In fact, 2017 is the 25 th anniversary of the famous book, the title of this book is as follows: Francis Fukuyama's "End of History" and "Last Man". However, after a quarter of a century, we seem to have returned to history. In fact, the end of history never happened. Our turbulent era is getting stronger than ever. Since nature dislikes vacuum, the lack of new ideas to leave the blank left by this movement is full of opinion. But, in fact, since the opinion is nothing but emptiness, this is really a vacuum to fill the vacuum. The result is obvious anxiety and confusion that loses meaning.

Francis Fukuyama's article "The End of History" celebrated clear and academically the victory of liberal democracy. Using somewhat strange historical definition, Fukuyama no longer has ideological contradiction and concluded that all competitors of modern liberalism had lost. To support his conclusion, Fukuyama quotes a similar position in the early 19th century Hegel where the principles of freedom and equality expressed in the American and French Revolution were won. Along with the modern decline of fascism and communism,

A political scientist Francis Fukuyama declared "the end of history" by famous political scientist Fukuyama, looking at the special events that occurred in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in 1989. According to Fukuyama, the collapse of the iron curtain and the opening up of the Russian economy and society have announced the arrival of a new world based on universal freedom and democracy. Early signs are positive. After collapsing under the repression of the Soviet repression, Eastern Europe accepted liberalism away from its chain. Poland, the Czech Republic, the Baltic countries adopt free markets and individual freedoms. East Germany touches its alienated Western counterpart in a hurry, and a unified and liberalized country will soon follow. At an attractive moment, China may even fall into a liberal camp.