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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.

1848, p145

4 dimensional geometry, p124

 

A

Acre (battle of), p150

acuity, p131 

Adolphus, Gustavus (death), p144

Adriatic (French Lake), p150 

Aeschylus, p129 

aether, p156
Agamemnon, p129 

Ajax (Greek tragedy), p129

Alexander, p149, his Indian expedition, p151, his death, p144

alluvial, p142

alter ego, p120

Alva, p148  

Amiens, Peace of,   p150

analogue, p151

Ananke, p129, p146

ancien regime, French-formed Culture, p151

ancillary, p153

anecdote, p143

anti-pole, p127

antiduration, p133

Antigone, p129 

apogee, p130

Aquinas, Thomas, p141

arabesque (over Early Christian picture), p128

architecture of the grand style, p128

astrology, p132  

Atreus, House of, p147

augers, p132  

Augustine, p124; Augustinian dialectic, p141

auricular confession, p131 

Austerlitz, p151

 

B

Bastille (storming of),   p151

Bayle,   p150

beam and load,   p128

Bentham,   p150

bipeds,   p156
Bismarck,   p145

Brabant tapestry,   p158

British Colonial Empire,   p149   

Brutus…his ancestor,   p133

Buddhism & care,   p138
 

C

cache,   p142

Caesar’s reform of the calendar, p133, his bust, p159

Calculus of Fluxions, p126

Calderon, p148  

Caligula, p133

Calvin, p141

carpe diem, p138

Cervantes, p148  

Chaeronea,  p151

Chaldean astronomy,   p147

chamber music, p128

Character Drama,   p129 

Charles V, Spaniard p148, imperial crown & Francis I, p148  

choice of materials,   p128

Chou Li, p137 

Chou period (of China), p133; and care, p137 

Church (& Loyola, Council of Trent), p148  

Clarke, S  p150

Classical and Western tragedy,   p128

coda,   p145

collocations,   p139

Columbus,   p148  

Congress of Vienna,   p148  

connotation, p127
connoted, p146 

conspectus,   p157  

"contemporary" epochal moments,   p151

 contrapuntally strong accents, p145

"conventional sign", p156

cottage building industry, p128

Council of Trent, p148  

counter-concept, p127

counterpart, p151

Creon, p129 

Culture, tragic style, p149   

 

D

daemonic, p146 

Dante, p142

Danton, p149

data, p142

Demeter of Cnidus, p136  

Demetrius of Alopece, p130

Democritus, p119

denotation, p146 

Diadochi, p149   

Diocletian, p149

diorite, p128

discountenance, p130

dispensation, p155

Divine Commedia, p142

 

E

ecclesiastical chivalric unit, p150

Egyptian administration (& care), p137; serial arrangement (of statues, sphinxes, temple halls), p128

elucidation, p141

English Civilization, p151

epoch, p148; of the Revolution, p 149, of the Classical (386-322 BC.), p149; epochal…episodic, p148  

Escorial, p148  

Etruscan-Roman haruspices, p132  

expiation, p143

 

F

facts, p154

fain, p141

Fatalism, p118

Fatum, p129, p146 

Faust's Gretchen, p137

First Consul, p150

force and mass, p128

Francis I, p148, imperial crown, p148  

Frederick William I, p138

free will, p141

French-formed Culture & ancien regime, p151

function, continuous,  p126

 

G

Gaugamela (Arbela), p151

Goethe, to Weimar, p139, to Sesenheim, p139,  and Valmy, p149, his Wahlverwandtschaften, p155, granite & his

minerology, p157, anti-Newton polemics, p157, “Alles Vergangliche ist nur ein Gleichnis” p160,

Gracch, p132  

Grace, p141

Grande Nation, p151

graves of Mycenae Tiryns, p135    

great Revolution, p148  

Greek pediments or frieze (serially built),   p147

 

H

Hebbel, p143

Heimarmene, p146 

Heraeum of Olympia, p132  

Higher culture, p117

Hingebung, p158

Hohenstaufen, p140

Hyksos, p149   

hypothesis, p155

 

I

Ibsen, Lady from the Sea, p156
imperial crown (Francis I & Charles V), p148  

imperium Romanum, p151

incidental, p148, incidentalness, p146

Innocent III,   p141

inter alia,   p119

intermezzo,   p144

Interregnum (German), p149   

Isis with Horus,   p137 
Italy (liberation, in 1796, 1859), p151

 

J

Jacobins, p149

Jansen, p141

Jena, p150

 

K

Kant, Prolegomena, p125, his scheme, p126
Kepler, horoscope for Wallenstein,   p147

kinema, p137 

kinesis, p137 

King Lear, p129, and Gloster’s house (secondary tragedy), p129 

Kismet, p129 

 

L

Lacoon group, p129 

language of music, p145

Leipzig, p145, p150

Leucippus (his existence), p135    

Lingam, p136  
Locke, p150

lodestar, p119

Loyola, p141

Luther, p141, p149

 

M

Maratha powers, p150

Marengo, p144, p150

Marx, p141

Materialism, p155

Maya Culture, p140

Middle Comedy,  p130

milieu,   p152

milliards,   p135    

minerology,   p157  

Mirabeau (& English influence),   p149   

Mississippi basin,   p150

modulations,   p145

Mohammed (great individual person),   p149

Monist,   p156
Mycenaean stone technique,   p132  

 

N

naiveté, p143

Napoleon's "transit”, p144, as Hero, p149   

national economy, p138

Nemesis, p129 

Nero, p133

Nirvana (and time), p133

 

O

Oedipus, p129 

oil painting (retreat of),   p128

Olympiad,   p132  

Oracle,   p132  

Orders (religious) model agriculture of,   p138

Orphische Urworte,   p157  

os intermaxillare,   p157  

ossature,   p157  

outranee,   p147

 

P

Paewati, p136  

paradox, p120

Pascal, p141

Peace of Paris (1763), p150

Peloponnesian War, p149   

Persian Wars, p132  

Philip II, p148, his wars, p148  

Philoctete, (Greek tragedy), p129

physiognomic flair, p118, and charm, p156, and type, p149, and abundance, p145, and style, p145

physiognomically…dumb…corporal…nude, p130

physiological, p155

play, Problem, p143

polemics, p155

postulate, p155

Predestination, p118, p141

prime phenomenon, p120, of metamorphosis, p157  

primitive man, p117

Prince of Homburg, p129 

proto-human, p157  

protoplasm, p156

Prussia, rise of, p151

Puritanism of Cromwell's milieu, p149   

 

Q

quand meme,   p156
 

R

rain worms,   p156
Raphael, his Sistine Madonna,   p136  

Rationalism,   p155

Robespierre,   p140, p149

Roman-German Empire, end of (Holy Roman Empire), p151

Roman history (written in the: l8th Century), p144

Roman Patrician order,   p140

Rousseau, p141, 150, and English influence), p149   

ruck, p143

 

S

sa sacree majeste Ie Hazard, p143

Sack of Rome, p148  

savant, p120, p154

Saxon Emperors, p134 

Schiller, Bride of Messina, p147; his “Weltgetriebe durch Hunger und durch Liebe”, p155

self-actualizing, p145

Sentinum, p151

Shaftesbury, p150

Shah of Persia, p150

Shakespeare (prince of historical tragedy), p144

Situation-Drama, p130

Smolensk, p150

social & economic interpretation (biological cast), p144

sociology, p155

somatic, p130

Spanish captains (war techniques), p148  

Spanish Cardinals (diplomacy of) p148  

Spanish Succession War of, p149   

Stoicism & care, p138
subjectivizing, p143

subserves, p141

Sulla, p139

Sybil, p132  

syllogism, p127
symbols, p142

synchronously, p130

systematically, p118

 

T

taboo, p127
Tacitus, p132  

teleology, p120

tempus absolutem, p124

Theoria, p153

Theotokos, p137 

Thirty Years' War, p149   

Thucydides, p132  

totem, p128

trans-phenomenal numbers, p156

truths, p154

Tyche, p129, p146

 

U

ultima ratio, p150

urbs Roma, p133

utilitarianism, p152

 

V

Valmy, p149, p151   

vector, p122,  and analysis, p124

Vedic dawn,  p134 

Velasquez,   p148  

vertical & spiral tendencies in vegetation (Goethe),   p157  

Vignola (architect),   p148  

Voltaire,   p150

votive offerings,  p130

 

W

wars of 1860,-1866-1870,   p145

Wars of Freedom,   p145

Waterloo,   p151

Weierstrass,  p126

Western Hellenism, p150

Westphalia, Peace of,   p148  

wheel clock,  p134 

Wolfram,   p142

world fear,   p128

world-longing,  p118

 

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Chapter IV. The Problem of World History: (2) The Destiny-Idea and the Causality-Principle
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