To this he opposes a different view – World as History. “From the rigour of these facts there is no refuge. The Religion eventually results in a reformation-like period, after the Culture-Ideal has reached its peak and fulfillment. In these wars of theirs for the heritage of the whole world, continents will be at stake, India, China, South Africa, Russia, Islam, called out, new technics and tactics played and counter played. Marvelous constructs, illuminating, attractive and challenging. He claims that was the sole case of one Culture destroying another. Babylonian Spengler argues that the two key figures in the development of a “Western” version of Christianity were Paul the writer of epistles, who himself had never seen nor met Jesus, and Mark, the Evangelist of the gospel. He is particularly concerned about the role of two factors in subverting and destroying democracy: the role of the modern press and the role of money in politics. It has been suggested that it intensified a sense of crisis in Germany following the end of World War I. Each Culture is born in some “world feeling” and that world-feeling gives it impetus, a logic, direction and Destiny. A rather non-critical description of the main arguments. Yet I’m not fully convinced by this gigantic thesis. Peasantry: The world of peasantry which is pre-Cultural and lived in the countryside. Here the gestating Arabian Culture lost to the Classical Civilization. “The Culture is the most significant unit for world history in the past 6,000 years of the history of higher human beings.” What struck me as especially interesting is that not only humans are seen as struggling with loneliness and their own struggle with individuality, but so do other non-human animals. He sees all Cultures as necessarily placed on equal footing in the study of world-historical development. Spengler seems to have held a traditional view of woman’s role in society. Octavian won and the battle marked the end of the Roman Republic and the birth of the Roman Empire. Whereas Cultures are "things-becoming", Civilizations are the "thing-become". The world feeling of Faustian Culture is inspired by the concept of infinitely wide and profound space, the yearning towards distance and infinity. As the Western Church developed it was, on Spengler’s view, not Jesus who was at the center, but Mary, particularly as Mater Dolorosa, Our Lady of Sorrows. Spengler explained that he did not mean to describe a catastrophic occurrence, but rather a protracted fall—a twilight or sunset (Sonnenuntergang is German for sunset, and Abendland, his word for the West, literally means the "evening land"). • Shamil Basayev: Chechen warlord given Decline as a gift by a Russian radio journalist. Here begins the special-spiritual conception of heresy. The emphasis here, however, is on Western Culture, not the other 7 Cultures. 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