Ultimately I subscribe to Hegel's view of history & agree with Fukuyama somewhat (though I have major disagreements).
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I'm afraid I am not well enough informed on them to have much of an opinion.
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Hegel said all history was the journey of humanity progressing through falsehoods/illusions/myths toward a state of absolute self-knowledge.
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It's a bit late for philosophy for me!
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Perhaps that is where we differ - I am pessimistic, not optimistic.
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I sensed that, yes.
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Great things to do...Such as?
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I don't know exactly. Develop science, ethics, politics, philosophy, art to the greater wellbeing & enrichment of humanity as we have been.
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Great goals. I'm all for them. Won't happen in the current intellectual environment. Openness to ideas and exploration is being attacked,
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