Concept
End of history
Overview
The end of history is a political and philosophical concept that supposes that a particular political, economic, or social system may develop that would constitute the end-point of humanity's sociocultural evolution and the final form of human government. A variety of authors have argued that a particular system is the "end of history" including Thomas More in Utopia (1516), Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Vladimir Solovyov, Alexandre Kojève, and most famously Francis Fukuyama in the 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man. In the book he argued that there are no longer any viable ideological competitors to liberal democracy and market capitalism.
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This discreet counsel has the same origin as the request to cultivated members of society to turn back to the customs and ideas of the savages of the North American forests, or as the recommendation to adopt the religion of Melchisedec which Fichte[6] has maintained to be the purest and simplest possible, and therefore the one at which we must eventually arrive. On the one hand, in this retrogression the desire for…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
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But in the last philosophical analysis, a return to the beginning is only possible in one way, namely, if one place the end of history in this fact, that mankind comes to a knowledge of the absolute idea, and explain that this knowledge of the absolute idea is obtained in the Hegelian philosophy. But in this way the whole dogmatic content of the Hegelian philosophy in the matter of absolute truth is explained in…
Friedrich Engels, Feuerbach
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Political power, which is developed similarly, but earlier than philosophy, from religion, exhibits the onesidedness, which in the actual world may infect its _implicitly_ true Idea, as demoralisation. Plato, in common with all his thinking contemporaries, perceived this demoralisation of democracy and the defectiveness even of its principle; he set in relief accordingly the underlying principle of the state, but…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Philosophy of Mind
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Philosophers who discussed End of history
Related ideas
- The End of History and the Last Man
- Social system
- Francis Fukuyama
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Postmodernism
- Gianni Vattimo
- Utopia (book)
- Thomas More
- Cold War
- Martin Heidegger
- Alexandre Kojève
- Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher)
- Arnold Gehlen
Place in the tradition
Part of Legalism (Chinese philosophy).