32 - Fukuyama’s “The End of History?”
Good in Theory: A Political Philosophy Podcast
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The Dialectic Between Master and Slave
The story of the dialectic between master and slave is kind of a small-scale fable that Hegel thinks illustrates something that's going on at a grand historical scale. It's the same basic process that moves us through tribal communities, slave societies, theocratic societies until finally we get to democratic egalitarian societies. And in this grand historical narrative, the French Enlightenment is an important moment because that's when humankind throws off its reliance on superstition and tradition and old hierarchies. The only thing that can satisfy our need for recognition is mutual recognition between equals.
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