History is not ending any time soon
The famous 19th century german philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel coined the term “End of History” to signify the point in time when all fundamental human issues relating to existence have been resolved. He believed that History had ended when Napoleon beat the prussian army in the battle of Jena. For Hegel Napoleon signified the aspirations of the french revolution for: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity and Secularism. These are the fundamental human values that solve all human issues. Francis Fukuyama the Neoconservative american political scientist would claim that history has ended in the 1990s with the end of the cold war. For him, western democracy and capitalism are the triumphant principles that all human beings will aspire to implement in their nations. Yet, today writing in 2015 we see that history is doesn’t seem to have ended. Secular Democracy is challenged in the islamic world with the concepts of islamic democracy and islamic theocracy. ISIS while being ...