bnolan56
May 30th, 2007, 05:28 AM
Well I decided to share some intelligent articles I have read, this one especially. It is an afterword written in 2002 by Francis Fukuyama, famous for writing the 1989 article "The End of History." It was a response to the ending of the Cold War and the first attempt to "make sense of the post-cold-war-world." I found it to be very very intriguing and I have questions from a reading guide my teacher Mr. Julius gave us that you all should answer after reading this (I recommend it):
WARNING VERY LONG READ MEANT ONLY FOR INTRIGUED YOUNG MINDS AND ADULTS: click here (http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=3&debateId=137&articleId=3496) to go to the page
Questions from my Reading Guide:
1. What is the purpose of this essay?
2. What is historicism?
3. What is at "the end of history" according to:
a) Hegel
b) Marx
c) Fukuyama
4. What is the central issue that divides Huntington and Fukuyama?
With whom do you agree?____________
5. What does Fukuyama mean when he uses the adjective "liberal" as in liberal democracy?
6. What, according to Fukuyama, is the relationship between economic development and democracy?
7. How do modern liberal societies differ from the ones described by our friends Hobbes, Locke, et al?
8. Accoring to Fukuyama, how did politics in the west become secular?
What is the difference between the Islamic world and the west with regard to secular politics?
9. According to Fukuyama, will the end of history look more like the USA or Europe? Why?
10. Does Fukuyama believe that Islam's beliefs and values are antithetical with liberal democracy? Why?
11. Instead of Islam, What does Fukuyama see as the largest barrier to liberal democracy in the Middle East?
12. According to Fukuyama, what is the difference between Islam and radical Islam or jihadism?
13. Why, according to Fukuyama, have jihadists arisen in liberal western Europe?
14. Why, according to Fukuyama, is radical Islamism more of an internal threat in the Muslim world and in western Europe then an external threat to us, for example?
15. What is the difference between European and American attitudes toward international democracy?
With whom is Fukuyama more sympathetic, the U.S. or Europe? _________ Why?
16. According to Fukuyama, what is the problem with political authority
In Europe?
In developing countries?
17. What technological problems might mess with Fukuyama's prediction?
18. What is the difference between weak and strong determinism?
Which does Fukuyama embrace, weak or strong? _______ So what?
I highly encourage all to read this article, and fill the reading guide out to help you better understand this article and lengthy piece of writing. And please no Religious Zealots in this discussion, this is for Pure Intellectual Debate.
WARNING VERY LONG READ MEANT ONLY FOR INTRIGUED YOUNG MINDS AND ADULTS: click here (http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=3&debateId=137&articleId=3496) to go to the page
Questions from my Reading Guide:
1. What is the purpose of this essay?
2. What is historicism?
3. What is at "the end of history" according to:
a) Hegel
b) Marx
c) Fukuyama
4. What is the central issue that divides Huntington and Fukuyama?
With whom do you agree?____________
5. What does Fukuyama mean when he uses the adjective "liberal" as in liberal democracy?
6. What, according to Fukuyama, is the relationship between economic development and democracy?
7. How do modern liberal societies differ from the ones described by our friends Hobbes, Locke, et al?
8. Accoring to Fukuyama, how did politics in the west become secular?
What is the difference between the Islamic world and the west with regard to secular politics?
9. According to Fukuyama, will the end of history look more like the USA or Europe? Why?
10. Does Fukuyama believe that Islam's beliefs and values are antithetical with liberal democracy? Why?
11. Instead of Islam, What does Fukuyama see as the largest barrier to liberal democracy in the Middle East?
12. According to Fukuyama, what is the difference between Islam and radical Islam or jihadism?
13. Why, according to Fukuyama, have jihadists arisen in liberal western Europe?
14. Why, according to Fukuyama, is radical Islamism more of an internal threat in the Muslim world and in western Europe then an external threat to us, for example?
15. What is the difference between European and American attitudes toward international democracy?
With whom is Fukuyama more sympathetic, the U.S. or Europe? _________ Why?
16. According to Fukuyama, what is the problem with political authority
In Europe?
In developing countries?
17. What technological problems might mess with Fukuyama's prediction?
18. What is the difference between weak and strong determinism?
Which does Fukuyama embrace, weak or strong? _______ So what?
I highly encourage all to read this article, and fill the reading guide out to help you better understand this article and lengthy piece of writing. And please no Religious Zealots in this discussion, this is for Pure Intellectual Debate.