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royalfan5
6/12/2006, 10:23 PM
I've been reading alot of his work lately and I find it very fascinating.
dolemitesooner
6/12/2006, 10:26 PM
Don't know what te hell you are talking about ...give me an example
royalfan5
6/12/2006, 10:29 PM
He wrote the End of History and the Last Man, State Building and Governance in the 21st Century, and Trust:The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity. To name three of his books.
dolemitesooner
6/12/2006, 10:30 PM
are they good and should I go buy one tommorw and which one and consider it done
SoonerInKCMO
6/12/2006, 10:31 PM
I'm about half-way through 'Our Posthuman Future'... the subject matter is interesting and he brings up good points to consider but he seems pretty pessimistic - it's not a matter of whether advances in biotech will 'strip us of our humanity' but rather how and how soon.
royalfan5
6/12/2006, 10:32 PM
are they good and should I go buy one tommorw and which one and consider it done
I would start with State Building and Governance in the 21st century, unless you have a some background with G.W.F. Hegel. If you like Hegel, get end of History.
dolemitesooner
6/12/2006, 10:32 PM
DONE AND DONER ....THANK YOU SIR
OCUDad
6/12/2006, 10:32 PM
Nice mini-bio of him in Wikipedia. Cue the political discussion in 1... 2... 3...
royalfan5
6/12/2006, 10:33 PM
Nice mini-bio of him in Wikipedia. Cue the political discussion in 1... 2... 3...
I'm betting Fukuyama may be a little too highbrow for the usual political crowd.
OCUDad
6/12/2006, 10:35 PM
I'm betting Fukuyama may be a little too highbrow for the usual political crowd.And that has stopped them before? :rolleyes:
noleamite
6/12/2006, 10:38 PM
Never heard of him, must do some research, us his name pronounced like fu-ku- llama. I dont want to say it wrong and have a asian guy hit me with a spinning side kick!
dolemitesooner
6/12/2006, 10:39 PM
Never heard of him, must do some research, us his name pronounced like fu-ku- llama. I dont want to say it wrong and have a asian guy hit me with a spinning side kick!
I wish one would
JohnnyMack
6/12/2006, 11:02 PM
And that has stopped them before? :rolleyes:

Hells yeah!!!!!!!!
GottaHavePride
6/12/2006, 11:03 PM
Heck, I still need to work through some of the older guys like Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, etc.


New Bruce will be teaching political science, Machiavelli, Bentham, Locke, Hobbes, Sutcliffe, Bradman, Lindwall, Miller, Hassett, and Benet.

Those are all cricketers, Bruce!

Ah, spit.

Howls of derisive laughter, Bruce!
noleamite
6/12/2006, 11:06 PM
I wish one would

Maybe if you could get your leg up high enough fat boy,,you could do it!;)
King Crimson
6/13/2006, 01:22 AM
be aware that Fukayama's reading of German philosophy is subordinated to his membership in the Project for the New American Century.

he uses Hegel etc. to advance other exogenous, contemporary political arguments.
noleamite
6/13/2006, 01:33 AM
Hmmm..point well taken.
Octavian
6/13/2006, 02:56 AM
I actually like Fukuyama.

The End of History, though, was an analysis through red, white, and blue glasses. It's now a widely cited reason not to engage in intellectually charged overzealous predictions (actually, looking back now, its kinda funny to see how far he overstepped). Unfortunately, End just foreshadowed fellow PNAC intellectuals like Wolfowitz's glossy fortune telling fifteen years later in the lead-up to Iraq II.

Haven't read State Building.
BoomerJack
6/13/2006, 07:42 AM
Didn't this guy recently come out with a criticism of the Bush Iraq war and the PNAC/NeoCon world view? I knew that his early books were used as a kind of theoretical basis of the origination of the PNAC and I believe he was a supporter of it and lent it considerable intellectual credence.
OklahomaTuba
6/13/2006, 08:07 AM
He's also good at making **** up!

Ask Charles Krauthammer. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/27/AR2006032701298.html)
SoonerProphet
6/13/2006, 08:37 AM
I've read End of History and I think he used to be on the editorial board at The National Interest. I'm with King Crimson...he is a PNAC'er so I take what he says with a grain of salt. Dialectic nonsense.