The Last Man and the Idea of Generation; or Fukuyama Discovering Human Nature
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https://doi.org/10.12775/szhf.2013.036Keywords
Fukuyama, last man, history, human nature, struggle for appreciation, thymos, history development, Hobbes, Rousseau, GassetAbstract
The aim of the article is to verify a thesis Fukuyama once advanced: the forthcoming end of history is related to the replacing of human need for appreciation by equality and mutual appreciation last men achieve in liberal democracies. I also analyze the conception of human nature which Fukuyama takes for granted and treats as the base for defining the essence of the last man. Another question I consider concerns the role of Platon’s thymos and can be stated as follows: is it justified to draw such far reaching conclusions from the notion as Fukuyama does in The Las Man? To answer the question I confront Fukuyama’s reflections concerning thymos with Hobbes’ and Rousseau’s understanding of the notion, and the idea of the end of history with the idea of generation proposed by Jose Ortega y Gasset.
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