POLI 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Francis Fukuyama, Hubris, Asthma
6 Apr 2016
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So perfect that it gives rise to no antithesis. To have an oak tree, all you need is an acorn technically the same. Analogy of acorn and oak tree applies to humans and infants. The ability of distinguishing things is developed. The top circle is the haze of concepts. Branching out = teenage phase = distinguishing things. Coming back together = adult phase = merging. Valuable concept - distinguishes us from the rest of the crowd. Our cells now are diferent from our cells 7 years ago. Sense of self vs. sense of continuity. Person who writes the beginning of this sentence is diferent from the person who inishes it. Plato"s analogy of spinning object: it is moving, yet it is not. Hegel also has a liberal concept of history linear and teleological. This diamond diagram and the thesis-antithesis diagram are similar. End point is the western civilization, in particular, usa.
