Beau Weston has a great post a classroom discussion on Francis Fukuyama's "The End of History." At the end of his post, Weston writes:
…In the same way, Fukuyama, another kind of Hegelian, identifies democracy and capitalism as the best ways of organizing society without having any vision of what the aim or end of human existence is beyond the End of History. Democracy and capitalism are both technologies for sorting our competing individual desires. Neither leads to the good life as such, only a life with less conflict and fewer transaction costs. To be sure, capitalism promises greater wealth for society, and if democracy reduces bloodshed that is a very great improvement over the alternatives.
Still, the End of History would not give any clue about the telos or meaning of human existence. …
Bingo!
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