Wed 16 Mar, 2011 09:33 am - Schopenhauer and Heidegger being a case in point though - both German. I mean, why has it come from these countries rather than Spain, Sweden, etc etc? (view)
Tue 15 Mar, 2011 06:50 am - Not meant to be the facetious question that it sounds, but I just wondered why it is that, pretty much since after the Greeks, most of the major philosophical works (or philosophies of any... (view)
Wed 13 Jan, 2010 08:22 am - [QUOTE=Fido;119607]What were his views of race in History???
Do you feel the West is in Decline; and in decline as compared to what???[/QUOTE]
Well, his conception of 'race' was... (view)
Tue 12 Jan, 2010 07:13 pm - Finally finished this book (the abridgement) a couple weeks ago.
I cannot recommend this book enough, especially for those with an interest in history.
Understandably some of it may indeed be... (view)
Mon 14 Dec, 2009 07:30 am - [QUOTE=Fido;111197]Philosophy has no intrisic value if life has no intrinsic value...[/QUOTE]
Life indeed does have no value, in and of itself. Nothing does.
Man ascibes value to it. But I... (view)
Mon 14 Dec, 2009 05:56 am - [QUOTE=Fido;110201]You do know that Liebniz, though a very rational man, was also the original Pangloss... He was literally the model... Those people disgraced themselves... Who wants to beat a... (view)
Fri 11 Dec, 2009 09:11 am - Have finally got round to reading this. I did get the abridged version in the end, and so far it seems to read quite satisfactorily. I wonder if the abridgment is due to Spengler's elegant yet... (view)
Tue 4 Aug, 2009 08:49 am - Thanks for the advice.
My main purpose for wanting to read Spengler is an extra-curricular one.
I know Joseph Campbell (a comparative mythologist I've read a little of) has cited Spengler... (view)
