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johnGould

['Member']Joined: July 14, 2018 at 03:51Last active: January 09, 2019 at 16:241 discussions13 comments

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True; because it excludes such modern, Western European countries as France, Germany and Holland etc; and also the Scandinavian (Nordic) nations of No...
January 07, 2019 at 14:00
Dear BC, For Spengler, the terms "Faustian culture" and "Western culture" were synonymous; ditto: "Western soul" and "Faustian soul". I think there ar...
January 07, 2019 at 11:17
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...
January 02, 2019 at 21:22
Thank you very much indeed for your advice re books dealing with this topic. Regards John
December 31, 2018 at 20:22
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...
December 31, 2018 at 18:41
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...
December 31, 2018 at 14:03
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...
December 24, 2018 at 10:51
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 ...
December 21, 2018 at 21:48
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...
December 21, 2018 at 08:23
Bitter Crank, I had been very interested in discussing "The West" ( Western culture/civilization) as it was conceptualised and described by Oswald Spe...
December 19, 2018 at 09:58
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...
December 19, 2018 at 05:43
I am very interested in Oswald's Spengler's analysis of Western culture/civilization. Spengler refers to Western culture as "Faustian". I realise that...
December 19, 2018 at 05:23
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 -...
December 15, 2018 at 03:34