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I am some 400 pages through The Decline of the West and I too often struggle with whether I can convince myself if what Spengler writes can somehow be considered anything more than a pleasant sounding story or even right or accurate.
With pic related: Valhall being nowhere specific seems appropriate but why is the imagination of the hall so separate in type from a southern italian's Christian Paradise, especially when compared with Hades or Olymp?
Music being not restricted, soma, like the ancient statues sounds once again nice, but no musician would consider the music he produces infinite in some manner; it's more alive and in movement, becoming than an inamiate object but how is this so defining for the west over any music other civilizations had?
His mathematics distinction between greeks and rationalists is fantastic too, but how am supposed to understand irrational numbers and infinitesimal calculations when I very well use all of them for on hand scientific work (in chemistry: z=x+iy is common for certain molecule structure calculation, or logarithm for radioactive half life, etc. etc.). Its not all abstract mathematics and he obviously was including this, but it seems like he likes to overstep the grasp of mathematics reach sometimes with the way he portrays it.
Did you guys have any secondary literature reading this to help clue you in a bit deeper (or does that perhaps only still lie ahead), or perhaps used some video lectures (preferably german)?

>I also do not quite understand why he seemingly omits England so much, except for the Empire and Newton

Gonna ask something about Spengler:

I am some 400 pages through The Decline of the West and I too often struggle with whether I can convince myself if what Spengler writes can somehow be considered anything more than a pleasant sounding story or even right or accurate.
With pic related: Valhall being nowhere specific seems appropriate but why is the imagination of the hall so separate in type from a southern italian's Christian Paradise, especially when compared with Hades or Olymp?
Music being not restricted, soma, like the ancient statues sounds once again nice, but no musician would consider the music he produces infinite in some manner; it's more alive and in movement, becoming than an inamiate object but how is this so defining for the west over any music other civilizations had?
His mathematics distinction between greeks and rationalists is fantastic too, but how am supposed to understand irrational numbers and infinitesimal calculations when I very well use all of them for on hand scientific work (in chemistry: z=x+iy is common for certain molecule structure calculation, or logarithm for radioactive half life, etc. etc.). Its not all abstract mathematics and he obviously was including this, but it seems like he likes to overstep the grasp of mathematics reach sometimes with the way he portrays it.
Did you guys have any secondary literature reading this to help clue you in a bit deeper (or does that perhaps only still lie ahead), or perhaps used some video lectures (preferably german)?

>I also do not quite understand why he seemingly omits England so much, except for the Empire and Newton