Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of ProsperityIn Trust, a sweeping assessment of the emerging global economic order "after History", Fukuyama examines a wide range of national cultures in order to divine the hidden principles that make a good and prosperous society, and his findings strongly challenge the orthodoxies of both left and right. In fact, economic life is pervaded by culture and depends, Fukuyama maintains, on moral bonds of social trust. This is the unspoken, unwritten bond between fellow citizens that facilitates transactions, empowers individual creativity, and justifies collective action. In the global struggle for economic predominance that is now upon us - a struggle in which cultural differences will become the chief determinant of national success - the social capital represented by trust will be as important as physical capital. But trust varies greatly from one society to another, and a map of how social capital is distributed around the world yields many surprises. The greatness of this country, he maintains, was built not on its imagined ethos of individualism but on the cohesiveness of its civil associations and the strength of its communities. But Fukuyama warns that our drift into a more and more extreme rights-centered individualism - a radical departure from our past communitarian tradition - holds more peril for the future of America than any competition from abroad. |
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... human life itself . For just as people are selfish , a side of the human personality craves being part of larger communities . Human beings feel an acute sense of unease — what Emile Durkheim labeled anomie — in the absence of norms and ...
... human life itself . For just as people are selfish , a side of the human personality craves being part of larger communities . Human beings feel an acute sense of unease — what Emile Durkheim labeled anomie — in the absence of norms and ...
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... human beings have obligations to one another . A human being cannot perfect himself in isolation ; the highest human virtues , like filial piety and benevolence , must be practiced in relation to another human being . Sociability is not ...
... human beings have obligations to one another . A human being cannot perfect himself in isolation ; the highest human virtues , like filial piety and benevolence , must be practiced in relation to another human being . Sociability is not ...
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... human activity . In The End of History and the Last Man , I argued that the human historical process could be understood as the interplay between two large forces . The first was that of rational desire , in which human beings sought to ...
... human activity . In The End of History and the Last Man , I argued that the human historical process could be understood as the interplay between two large forces . The first was that of rational desire , in which human beings sought to ...
Contents
On the Human Situation at the End of History | 3 |
PART II | 12 |
The Twenty Percent Solution | 13 |
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