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Index

Please note: the terms are indexed where they are first cited in the work; subsequent citations (in most cases) are not listed.  Spelling in some case is idiosyncratic to Spengler and German of 1918; this is especially true of Chinese names.

A

Actuality,  p164

Alfarabi,   p178
Alkabi,   p178

Apollonina physics,   p177
apprehended extension (without limits),  p171

arriere pensee,   p176

Aristotle, his ontology,   p178

Atma,  p165

 

B

baptismal rite (Magian),  p167

Beethoven,   p177, his late quartets & symphonies,   p177

Brahmanic soul,   p178 and Nirvana,   p178
 

C

Chinese painting (perspective),  p171

Chrysippus,   p177 and his Divine Pneuma,   p177

Civis Romanus,  p167

Classical temple,   p177
column, destiny of,   p166
contrition (Faustian),  p167
corroborated,   p175
 

D

Democritus,   p177,  his seeing,   p177
Divine Pneuma,   p177

 

E

end of the world, impending (circa 1000),  p167

Erlosung,   p177

Euler,  p171          
Everything comes as mortal,  p167  and see Goethe

Experiential Depth,  p171

 

F

Faustian physics,   p177
 

G

gait, p 163

Gauss, his Non-Euclidan geometry,  p170, his discovery,  p172

Gluck,   p177
Goeth, his “Alles Vergangliche ist nur ein Gleichnis”,  p168

Greek, visual world,  p172

 

H

here,  p164

homogenous,  p164

  

I

Indians...number,   p178, and see Brahmanic

irreducible, p 163           

 

J

Jesus, sacrificial death of,  p167

 

K

Kant, his greatness,   p170
kinesis,  p172

 

L

Lagrange,  p171
Laocoon, Renaissance sculpture,  p165

law knows only corporal...material,   p177
Lysippus,   p177

 

M

Macrocosm,  p165, macrocosmically,  p172

mediation,   p166

mien, p 163

music, of 18th century instrumental masters,   p177
 

N

nonent,   p176
 

O

 

pathos,   p176
planar,  p172

Plato, his anamnesis,  p174

Polycletus, Canon of,   p177
pre-Socratics,   p175   

Prime Symbol,   p180
 

Q

 

R

ratiocination,   p170

Renaissance, criticism of,   p178
Romans, in the time of Justinian,  p167

 

S

Scheu,  p167

Seneca, French Classicist drama,  p165

somatic,   p180

Stamitz,   p177

state, knows only corporal,   p177
 

T

Tao,  p165

there,  p164

Tolstoi,   p166

tridimennsionaliy,   p170             
Tristan,   p177

 

U

 

V

visage,  p165

 

W

Western painting (perspective),  p171
wont,  p165

 

XY

 

Z

zero,   p178

Decline of the West, Chapter  V: Makrokosmos. (1) The symbolism of the World-Picture and the Problem of Space
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