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You're listening to the partially examined life episode 209 part two

We just talked to Frank Fukuyama in our first half about his

2018 book identity the demand for dignity in the politics of resentment

Well, that was a good interview. I thought he was a good guest

I thought we got a good overview in the first hour

What was the big hole for folks that we just didn't even get into with him that you thought was really central

Was there anything that we should start off with like that?

Part of the argument that I think is complicated or it's not clear how it fits together

Is what I think of as the complications of the transition from megalothermia to isothermia

And he mentions a few of them right?

So there's the tendency to regress and one of the problems is just

So you're saying there's a historical movement that we start out in a Hobbesian

Is that the starting point now? I'm talking about the

So his transition from megalothermia to isothermia is just that historical transition from

Yeah, maybe mark this is what you're saying, but it's just that transition from

The aristocratic sensibility of wanting recognition for one superiority

To the liberal democracy sense of recognition oneing

Recognition in the form of equal rights for oneself as an autonomous

A human being capable of autonomy and moral choice and in a way that's the story he tells in

The end of history. It's about that transition and the triumph of liberal democracy the triumph of isothermia

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