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that both human beings and modern chimpanzees are descended

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Hobbesean fallac

Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau developed this distinction and wrote treatises on the question of the state of nature, seeking to ground political rights in it.

"state of nature" have been central to the understanding of justice and political order that underlies modern liberal democracy.

In fact, I will go out on a limb and state that millennials may actually be the best generation of workers we’ve ever seen

Fukuyama

“The first arose when my mentor, Samuel Huntington of Harvard University, asked me to write a foreword to a reprint edition of his 1968 classic, ‘Political Order in Changing Societies.’

history as such had ended in the year 1806 with the Battle of Jena-Auerstadt, when Napoleon defeated the Prussian monarchy and brought the principles of liberty and equality to Hegel’s part of Europe.”

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“Human beings never existed in a pre­social state. The idea that human beings at one time existed as isolated individuals, who interacted either through anarchic violence (Hobbes) or in pacific ignorance of one another (Rousseau), is not correct.”

The End of History?” in the foreign policy journal The National Interest and the subsequent book “The End of History and the Last Man.” His thesis ignited a global debate: “What we may b

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: “Alexandre Kojève, the great Russian-French interpreter of Hegel, argued that history as such had ended in the year 1806 with the Battle of Jena-Auerstadt, when Napoleon defeated the Prussian monarchy and brought the principles of liberty and equality to Hegel’s part of Europe.”

It is impossible to develop any meaningful theory of political development without treating ideas as fundamental causes of why societies differ and follow distinct development paths.”

mentor, Samuel Huntington of Harvard University, asked me to write a foreword to a reprint edition of his 1968 classic, ‘Political Order in Changing Societies.’

Fukuyama rejects reductionist attempts to explain political and social institutions as mere epiphenomena of underlying economic or technological structures. “It is impossible to develop any meaningful theory of political development without treating ideas as fundamental causes of why societies differ and follow distinct development paths.”

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