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| e78483d | The door opened to reveal something like the opposite of Inspector Genette: a very big man. Prognathous, callipygous, steatopygous, exophthalmos--toad, newt, frog--even the very words were ugly. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 7358a32 | Samuel Huntington identified the "Tudor" character of American politics.1 According to Huntington, the Englishmen who settled North America in the seventeenth century brought with them many of the political practices of Tudor, or late medieval, England. On American soil these old institutions became entrenched and were eventually written into the American Constitution, a fragment of the old society frozen in time.2 Those Tudor characteristi.. | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| eb0529e | See Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last man (London: Penguin, 1993). Note the often-overlooked second part where Fukuyama criticizes the end of history as leading to the last man. | fukayama last-man nietzsche | Hugo Drochon | |
| b4f4c98 | Sorun, bilimsel arastirmalara iliskin secimleri bilimcilerin mi yoksa politikacilarin mi yapacagi degil, uremeye iliskin neyin dogru oldugu kararinin anne babalarin mi yoksa devletin mi verecegidir. James Watson bu karari erkeklerden olusan bir duzenleme gurbunun degil, annelerinbireysel oalrak vermeleri gerektigini vurgulamistir. | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| b71336a | Human beings cooperate to compete and compete to cooperate. | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| a4e2d51 | The young Hegel witnessed Napoleon riding through his university town after the Battle of Jena in 1806 and saw in that act the incipient universalization of recognition in the form of the principles of the French Revolution. This is the sense in which Hegel believed that history had come to an end: it culminated in the idea of universal recognition; | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| 003174b | Property came to be owned not by groups of kinfolk but by individuals, who increasingly won the right to buy and sell it at will. Their rights to that property were enforced not by kin but by courts and legal systems that had the power to settle disputes and compensate wrongs. In time, moreover, social rules were formalized as written laws rather than customs or informal traditions. These formal rules were used to organize the way that powe.. | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| d0bc3c9 | Meanwhile, as Francis Fukuyama has argued, the very legitimacy of democratic politics is being corroded because 'interest groups . . . are able to effectively buy politicians with campaign contributions and lobbying', a process that he dubs 'repatrimonialization | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 6e1f2b4 | By taking on political correctness so frontally, Trump has played a critical role in moving the focus of identity politics from the left, where it was born, to the right, where it is now taking root. Identity politics on the left tended to legitimate only certain identities while ignoring or denigrating others, such as European (i.e., white) ethnicity, Christian religiosity, rural residence, belief in traditional family values, and related .. | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| c1bfd61 | Dual citizenship has become increasingly widespread today as migration levels have increased. For many people who travel or have family in different countries, having multiple passports is a great convenience. But if one takes national identity seriously, it is a rather questionable practice. Different nations have different identities and different interests that can engender potentially conflicting allegiances. The most obvious problem in.. | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| c182515 | Social democracy, one of the dominant forces shaping Western European politics in the two generations following World War II, has been in retreat. | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| 08ecb44 | Left-wing populism made a strong showing primarily in parts of Latin America in the 1990s and 2000s, with the rise of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brazil, and the Kirchners in Argentina. But this wave has already retreated, with the self-immolation of Venezuela under Chavez's successor, Nicolas Maduro. The strong showings of Jeremy Corbyn in the United Kingdom and Bernie Sanders in the United States may be harbinge.. | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| cfd7b40 | Verily, men gave themselves their good and evil. Verily, they did not take it, they did not find it, nor did it come to them as a voice from heaven. Only man placed values in things to preserve himself--he alone created a meaning for things, a human meaning. Therefore he calls himself "man," which means: the esteemer. To esteem is to create: hear this, you creators! Esteeming itself is of all esteemed things the most estimable treasure. Thr.. | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| 5422f11 | Dent recognized it; the intermezzo before the last movement of De Bruik's Human Biology. The finale of the symphony was a standard concert opener in the outer worlds. Soon the crackling of superamplified muscle contractions and the rush of adrenaline into the bloodstream announced the shift to the finale, and the crowd cheered wildly; Dent could feel his blood surging through him-- | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| c346273 | The town was made of cubical buildings with steep roofs, each one painted a bright primary color that through the long winters was said to be cheering. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| a4a22e7 | The rule of law limits power by granting citizens certain basic rights--that is, in certain domains such as speech, association, property, and religious belief the state may not restrict individual choice. Rule of law also serves the principle of equality by applying those rules equally to all citizens, including those who hold the highest political offices within the system. Democratic accountability in turn seeks to give all adult citizen.. | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| 93cd5e7 | In both Europe and the United States, that debate is currently polarized between a right that seeks to cut off immigration altogether and would like to send current immigrants back to their countries of origin and a left that asserts a virtually unlimited obligation on the part of liberal democracies to accept migrants. The real focus should instead be on strategies for better assimilating immigrants to a country's creedal identity. Well-as.. | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| 8993c7f | Francis Fukuyama cuenta que asesoro al Banco Mundial y a la Agencia Australiana para el Desarrollo Internacional sobre el modo de favorecer la construccion de un Estado moderno en Melanesia. El problema surgia del hecho de que esas sociedades estan organizadas tribalmente, en lo que los antropologos denominan linajes segmentarios, grupos de personas que descienden de un ancestro comun, cada uno de ellos con una lengua, lo que produce una en.. | José Antonio Marina | ||
| bec83b7 | Religion was instead seen as a form of idolatry or false consciousness; recognition was due rather to the expressive inner self that might at times even want to transgress religious rules. | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| fc193c0 | Philip Rieff, who argued that the decline of a shared moral horizon defined by religion had left a huge void that was being filled by psychologists preaching a new religion of psychotherapy. | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| 6b37232 | Modern liberal societies are heirs to the moral confusion left by the disappearance of a shared religious horizon. | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| ad644cc | Who am I, really?" The search for an answer produces feelings of alienation and anxiety and can only be relieved when one accepts that inner self and receives public recognition for it." | identity-politics | Francis Fukuyama | |
| c54c750 | The problem with this understanding of autonomy is that shared values serve the important function of making social life possible. | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| 1aec9a3 | But what if Rousseau was wrong and that inner self was, as traditional moralists believed, the seat of asocial or harmful impulses, indeed of evil? | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| ce3abda | the promotion of self-esteem enabled not human potential but a crippling narcissism, indeed, a narcissism that he felt had come to characterize American society as a whole. | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| 0356990 | The therapeutic turn in the popular culture of advanced liberal democracies such as the United States was inevitably reflected in its politics, and in an evolving understanding of the role of the state. | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| 4ebbd58 | When an American thinks about the problem of government-building, he directs himself not to the creation of authority and the accumulation of power but rather the limitation of authority and the division of power. | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| 05d943f | The obligation to respect universal human rights has been voluntarily undertaken by most countries around the world, and rightly so. But all liberal democracies are built on top of states, whose jurisdiction is limited by their territorial reach. No state can undertake an unlimited obligation to protect people outside its jurisdiction, and whether the world would be better off if they all tried to do so is not clear. | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| 696dc0c | In the second decade of the twenty-first century, that spectrum appears to be giving way in many regions to one defined by identity. The left has focused less on broad economic equality and more on promoting the interests of a wide variety of groups perceived as being marginalized--blacks, immigrants, women, Hispanics, the LGBT community, refugees, and the like. The right, meanwhile, is redefining itself as patriots who seek to protect trad.. | identity-politics | Francis Fukuyama | |
| 5fadb89 | To live effectively is to live with adequate information. | Norbert Wiener | ||
| a21ce80 | But as important as material self-interest is, human beings are motivated by other things as well, motives that better explain the disparate events of the present. This might be called the politics of resentment. In a wide variety of cases, a political leader has mobilized followers around the perception that the group's dignity had been affronted, disparaged, or otherwise disregarded. This resentment engenders demands for public recognitio.. | identity-politics | Francis Fukuyama | |
| aed9360 | Liberal democracy is built around the rights given to individuals who are equal in their freedom, that is, who have an equal degree of choice and agency in determining their collective political lives. | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| 2c9c0d2 | The most modern contemporary bureaucracies were those established by authoritarian states in their pursuit of national security. | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| 645151e | Belief in the corruptibility of all institutions leads to a dead end of universal distrust," political scientist Francis Fukuyama warns. "American democracy, all democracy, will not survive a lack of belief in the possibility of impartial institutions; instead, partisan political combat will come to pervade every aspect of life."1 And so it has. From a reading of history going back to ancient Rome, we know that this is the way republics unr.. | Nathan Gardels | ||
| 923c819 | the left stopped thinking several decades ago about ambitious social policies that might help remedy the underlying conditions of the poor. It was easier to talk about respect and dignity than to come up with potentially costly plans that would concretely reduce inequality. | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| 38fc015 | Sequencing therefore matters enormously. Those countries in which democracy preceded modern state building have had much greater problems achieving high-quality governance than those that inherited modern states from absolutist times. | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| f7bf430 | Kojeve, interpreting Hegel in the 1930s, suggested that the idea of the modern state, once unleashed in the world, would eventually universalize itself because it was so powerful: those facing it would either conform to its dictates or be swallowed up. | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| 8e58970 | the experience of a more democratic America suggests that there is an inherent tension between democracy and what we now call "good governance." -- | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| 51a1191 | I want that Tesla not because I care so much about global warming, but because it is trendy and expensive, and my neighbor is still driving a BMW. | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| 77f6832 | The English race, consequently, has long and successfully studied the art of curbing executive power to the constant neglect of the art of perfecting executive methods. It has exercised itself much more in controlling than in energizing government. It has been more concerned to render government just and moderate than to make it facile, well-ordered and effective. | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| 9d6048a | The left continued to be defined by its passion for equality, but that agenda shifted from its earlier emphasis on the conditions of the working class to the often psychological demands of an ever-widening circle of marginalized groups. | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| e31c860 | Natural sociability can be overridden by the development of new institutions that provide incentives for other types of behavior (for example, favoring a qualified stranger over a genetic relative), but it constitutes a form of social relationship to which humans always revert when such alternative institutions break down. | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| 702a4a8 | This new middle-class elite sought reforms against the interests of a political class that had succeeded in mobilizing the vast mass of nonelite voters into the patronage system. | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| 9e78540 | Thus Luther is responsible for the notion, central to questions of identity, that the inner self is deep and possesses many layers that can be exposed only through private introspection. | Francis Fukuyama |