True; because it excludes such modern, Western European countries as France, Germany and Holland etc; and also the Scandinavian (Nordic) nations of No...
Dear BC, For Spengler, the terms "Faustian culture" and "Western culture" were synonymous; ditto: "Western soul" and "Faustian soul". I think there ar...
Before I discuss "The West", I must say,"Thank you" very much for your kind advice about cutting and pasting photos on the internet. Unfortunately I a...
No, I don't think one could say that Spengler had any kind of explicit "normative" agenda to press in his analysis of Western high culture and the nat...
CTW, Thank you for your thoughtful response to my last post. It is much appreciated as I find the topics we are looking extremely interesting. In conc...
Dear CTW (and Unenlightened), Before I discuss -(as I promised I would)- the matter of the style of the artwork the Vikings carved onto their longboat...
CTW, I'll get back to you in a few hours time. Thanks for looking at the artwork the Vikings carved into the prow and keels of their wooden longboats ...
Dear CTW and/or anyone else who might be interested, I wanted to send a "link" to show you all something ( some photographs), in the context of this d...
Bitter Crank, I had been very interested in discussing "The West" ( Western culture/civilization) as it was conceptualised and described by Oswald Spe...
PS: Please don't think I am being lazy in requesting this advice. I have spent many hours reading scholarly critiques of Spengler's "Decline of the We...
I am very interested in Oswald's Spengler's analysis of Western culture/civilization. Spengler refers to Western culture as "Faustian". I realise that...
Suppose a husband and wife have a child with Down's Syndrome whom they have always loved dearly are cared for in an exemplary manner.Is the dominion -...
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