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Nec uno die condita est Roma, nec uno cecidit die.
The Godhead is effective in the living and not in the dead, in the becoming and the changing, not in the become and the set-fast; and therefore, the reason is concerned only to strive towards the divine through the becoming and the living, and the understanding only to make use of the become and the set-fast.
- GoetheBIOGRAPHY
Born on May 29, 1880 in the town of Blankenburg, Germany to a petit bourgeios family. After being educated in a number of universities, Spengler pursued his doctoral degree in Halle in 1901, focusing on natural sciences and mathematics. His thesis concerned the early Greek philosopher Heraclitus.
After earning his degree in 1904, Spengler took up a post in Hamburg to teach subjects such as German, history, and geography.
A long sufferer of migraine headaches and anxiety, Spengler resigned from his post and moved to Munich where he lived as a scholar from inheritance.
Previous to World War I he penned the first volume of The Decline of the West, a study of 'culture morphology.'
High Cultures actualize themselves by an organic process of birth, ripening, aging and death. All creations of a culture are merely expressions of a unique culture-soul.
Each Culture has its own possibilities of self-expression which arise, ripen, decay, and never return. There is not one sculpture, one painting, one mathematics, but many. Each is in its deepest essence different from the others, each limited in duration and self-contained....
When Decline was published in 1917, it became not only a success in Germany, but across the world being translated into several languages
Spengler rejected an offer to teach at the University of Goettingen to focus on writing his second volume of Decline, published in 1920.
During the mid-twenties, with Germany in economic turmoil, Spengler entered politics by supporting Reichswehr general Hans von Seeckt for national leader. This effort failed.
Man and Technics was published in 1931. Spengler warned of the arrival of an impending technocracy threatening Western culture and of Western nations fueling non-Western, 'colored' peoples with their technology
Although arguably a monarchist and conservative, Spengler voted for Hitler and the NSDAP in 1932 and was an early supporter.
Differances over the NSDAP's policy towards Jews, the proletarian nature of the party, and what Spengler perceived as Hitler's narrow focus on Germany, instead of a European Weltanschauung, led to his split.
The Hour of Decision published in 1934 was a bestseller but banned by the Third Reich due to its critical comments of Hitler's government. Hour dealt with such topics as the decline of European power in the world and the twin threats of capitalism and communism.
Spengler spent his last years listening to Beethoven, reading, collecting ancient weapons, and taking occasional vacations to Italy. He died of heart failure in Munich on May 8, 1936, three weeks shy of his 56th birthday.
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