Sunday, April 15, 2012

Purpose of Modern Liberal Democracy








Agreeing on ends, men would have no large cause for which to fight. They would satisfy their needs through economic activity, but they would no longer have to risk their lives in battle. They would, in other words, become animals again as they were before the bloody battle that began history. A dog is content to sleep in the sun all day provided he is fed, because he is not dissatisfied with what he is He does not worry that other dogs are doing better than him, or that his career as a dog has stagnated or that dogs are being oppressed in a distant part of the world

and According to Alexandre Kojeve, the result of such would be
" If Man becomes an Animal again, his arts, his loves, his play must also become purely natural again. Hence it would have to be admitted that after the end of history, men would construct their edifices and works of art as birds build their nests and spiders spin their websm would perform musical concerts after the fashion of frogs and cicadas, would play like young animals and would indulge in love like adult beasts"

Reference "The End of History by Francis Fukuyama Pages 311 and 387


It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living. ~ Rousseau


عصرِ حاضر ملک الموت ہے تیرا،جس نے 
قبض کی روح تیری دے کے تجھے فکر معاش

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