Abstract
Fukuyama considers whether or not there is a direction to the history of mankind. He identifies two powerful forces guiding our actions: the logic of desire (the rational economic process); and the desire for recognition, which he describes as the very motor of history.
Keywords
End of historyProcess (computing)EpistemologyHistoryAestheticsEnvironmental ethicsComputer sciencePolitical sciencePhilosophyLaw
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Francis Fukuyama
(1992).
The End of History and the Last Man.
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