[lit-ideas] Re: Fukuyama and the End of... well...
- From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:00:47 -0800
Lawrence Helm wrote:
If I understand you right my answer is this: I tend to lose a bit of
respect for a theorist who won’t take some sort of responsibility for
those putting of his theories into practice.
I would have that that as an historian of ideas, Fukuyama was being
descriptive, not prescriptive. This theory in TEOH was a theory of what
would happen, given the conditions he thought necessary for them to.
Marx got into a lot of trouble for trying to be descriptive and
prescriptive simultaneously.
I've no doubt missed Lawrence's point.
Robert Paul
Reed College
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