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Journal Article
Spengler's Philosophy and Its Implication that Europe has \Lost Its Way\
2012
Overview
Like individual people, cultural organisms differ in character, ability, and aptitude. [...]calculus and the theory of mathematical functions, soaring Gothic cathedrals and a music based on fugai composition all express characteristically Western passions, which include a love for vast wide-open spaces as well as an intense interest in the distant past and concern for the far future. 7 In a contrasting manner, geometry, statistics and sculpture were all creative expressions of a mind obsessed with the corporeal and with here-now - that which produced the Ancient Greek Culture. 8 Similarly, algebra, alchemy and arabesque were all manifestations of another unique culture-personality, as also were acupuncture, Taoism and Chinese art. A culture's \"summer\"' is an era of great creativity: in Europe, this witnessed the crystallization of a totally new concept in mathematics (calculus) simultaneously in the minds of two people working quite independently - Newton and Leibniz. 10 The same centuries saw the birth of oil painting and the flowering of a style of music completely unknown before the advent of Western Culture.11 During \"autumn,\" life becomes dominated by materialism and by purely rational thought; n Spengler uses the term \"Civilization\" to denote this particular phase.
