Political Science · Political Theory
UGC NET November 2021 Political Science
'We are witnessing the end of history as such that is, the endpoint of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government'. Whose thesis is this?
AA. MacIntyre
BDaniel Bell
CFrancis Fukuyama ✓ Correct
DMilton Friedman
Answer: C
Explanation
★The thesis that we are witnessing the end of history, with Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government, is Francis Fukuyama's.
★He argued that the great ideological battles had ended with the triumph of liberal democracy, which no rival could now surpass.
★Fukuyama set this out in his 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man, building on a Hegelian view of history.
★Daniel Bell is the obvious trap, since he wrote The End of Ideology, but that is a different argument from the end of history.
★Alasdair MacIntyre and Milton Friedman are associated with virtue ethics and free market economics, not with this thesis.
★So Francis Fukuyama is the correct answer.
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