POL201Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Liberal Democracy, Amartya Sen, Bourgeoisie
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Looked at development in different countries and at different points in time, looked at different theories of development, and the normative (moral/theoretical) implications of these theories. This semester, we will be focusing on institutions, theories, mechanisms of democracy and its normative implications. In 1992, fukuyama published an influential book called the end of history and the last man. It was written just as the ussr were collapsing and as many countries were turning from many forms of government to democracy and the free market. Western liberal democracy signaled the end point of mankind"s ideological evolution, that democracy was the final and ultimate form of human government. Cold war - it was the end of history as such, accompanied by the universalization of western liberal democracy as the highest achievement and final form of human government. Some take a teleological theory of history from marx"s teleological. Theory of history (dialectical materialism): the philosophical design of study and purpose.
