Fukuyama's thesis was that history has come to an end. He believed that the end of history was when there were no major contradictions to modern liberalism that could no be explained in the context of modern liberalism itself. He believed that," At the end of history it is not necessary that all societies become successful liberal societies, merely that they end their ideological pretensions of representing different and higher forms of human society. " (p.`173) I'm not sure if I agree with his hypothesis, I understand it and I think it is very interesting but it conflicts with the idea that there can always be more progress made. I somehow cannot believe that modern liberalism marks the end of history because I think that there are more ideology's that can be build (although I have no idea how) off liberalism.
I think this helps with the final project in that it does give us a kind of set definition of history and a possible end to history. This helps me in just thinking about the discipline of history as a whole and how to define it, although I do not think there is an end to history reading about the reasoning behind that thesis helped me develop my ideas on the definition of history.
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