Throughout the book ‘Political Order and Political Decay’, published in 2014, Francis Fukuyama dr... more Throughout the book ‘Political Order and Political Decay’, published in 2014, Francis Fukuyama draws on an impressive number of sources spanning many disciplines. However, his analysis is incomplete because he omits personal experience, such as “feelings” or intrinsic humanist motivations, as a perspective. This leads him to give weak explanations for past events and institutions and draw hasty conclusions about the limits of future political organization.
This paper is concerned with the relation of thought and language, especially with the inner work... more This paper is concerned with the relation of thought and language, especially with the inner workings of human conceptual thought. The questions it set out to answer were whether humans think in language and how language might limit human thinking. What the current research has shown, is that both of these questions can be negated, as they do not stand up to scrutiny.
Throughout the book ‘Political Order and Political Decay’, published in 2014, Francis Fukuyama dr... more Throughout the book ‘Political Order and Political Decay’, published in 2014, Francis Fukuyama draws on an impressive number of sources spanning many disciplines. However, his analysis is incomplete because he omits personal experience, such as “feelings” or intrinsic humanist motivations, as a perspective. This leads him to give weak explanations for past events and institutions and draw hasty conclusions about the limits of future political organization.
This paper is concerned with the relation of thought and language, especially with the inner work... more This paper is concerned with the relation of thought and language, especially with the inner workings of human conceptual thought. The questions it set out to answer were whether humans think in language and how language might limit human thinking. What the current research has shown, is that both of these questions can be negated, as they do not stand up to scrutiny.
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