{"id":423,"date":"2018-05-10T16:27:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T20:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/?p=423"},"modified":"2018-05-10T16:32:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T20:32:12","slug":"we-are-the-world-and-the-end-of-history-an-idea-whose-time-has-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/uncategorized\/we-are-the-world-and-the-end-of-history-an-idea-whose-time-has-come\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are the World (and the End of History):  An Idea Whose Time Has Come?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Yet the truly remarkable thing is not the differences about the programme, but the degree of instant consensus.\u00a0 In 1968, even in 1977, it was almost unthinkable that there would be so much common ground.\u00a0 This is a Czech phenomenon.\u00a0 But it is not just a Czech phenomenon, for in different ways it is repeated all over East Central Europe.\u00a0 Take a more or less representative sample of politically aware persons.\u00a0 Stir under pressure for two days.\u00a0 And what do you get?\u00a0 The same fundamental Western, European model:\u00a0 parliamentary democracy, the rule of law, market economy&#8230;It is the idea of &#8216;normality&#8217; that seems to be sweeping triumphantly across the world.&#8221;\u00a0 Timothy Garton Ash,\u00a0<em>The Magic Lantern<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We march vicariously with people in trouble whoever they are; and we have our own parade&#8230;If we did not have our own parade, we could not march vicariously in Prague.\u00a0 We would have no understanding at all of &#8220;truth&#8221; or &#8220;justice.&#8221;\u00a0 Michael Walzer,\u00a0<em>Moral Minimalism<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Assess Michael Walzer&#8217;s account of the universal-made-particular in light of our discussion and readings on the &#8220;end of the History&#8221; thesis.\u00a0 Whose account (if any) do you find to be the most compelling and why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Yet the truly remarkable thing is not the differences about the programme, but the degree of instant consensus.\u00a0 In 1968, even in 1977, it was almost unthinkable that there would be so much common ground.\u00a0 This is a Czech phenomenon.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/uncategorized\/we-are-the-world-and-the-end-of-history-an-idea-whose-time-has-come\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1690,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1690"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}