In his 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama resurrected to intellectual respectability the primordial "struggle for recognition" as the dialectical driving force underlying man's quest for human freedom.  That force in the tripartite human soul was first recognized by Plato, in his Republic, nearly 2,400 years ago, which he referred to as "spiritedness," along with reason and desire.  Reason, Plato believed, moderates spiritedness and can channel human energy into socially constructive directions and toward human freedom as an expression of one's sense of self-worth.  However, Fukuyama points out that the modernization process has, instead, harnessed reason to the service of desire for material abundance, at the expense of the value of human beings with an innate worth. Donald Trump endears himself to those struggling to regain recognition of their self-importance and self-worth. Man's desire for...(Read Full Article)