Liberal Democracy as the End of the World History: A Critique of Fukuyama’s the End of History and the Last Man

Stephen Chijioke Nwinya

Department of Philosophy and Religion

Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki

E-mail drsteveinya@gmail.com 

Abstract

The beauty of liberal democracy is highly appreciated especially in comparison with other political systems that stood as rivals before the evolution of liberal democracy to its current state. Arguably, democracy has displaced most of its rivals. Hence, Francis Fukuyama was moved to conclude that evolution of liberal democracy and its displacement of rival political systems are enough indication that liberal democracy has sated the desire of the human nature and therefore brought the world history to abrupt termination. This text is a critical review of Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man to ascertain the veracity of his claim. To achieve this, an exposition of the views of the precursors of speculative world history was necessary. The investigation revealed that inasmuch as the beauty of liberal democracy is not in doubt, its current status cannot be said to have satisfied the yearning of the human nature and called for caution in the propagation of the system as championed by the West. Thus evolution of ideology which speculative world history represents is still open-ended.