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Fatalism:

philosophical doctrine that stresses the subjugation of all events or actions to destiny and may refer to: man is powerless to do anything other than what we actually do, humans have no power to influence the future or their own action; or attitude of resignation in the face of some future event thought to be inevitable (Nietzsche named this idea "Turkish fatalism"), that acceptance is appropriate & not resistance against inevitable.

 

Predestination:

in theology, the doctrine that all events have been willed by God, often with reference to the eventual fate of the individual soul; explanations of predestination often seek to address the "paradox of free will", whereby God's omniscience seems incompatible with human free will. In this usage, predestination can be regarded as a form of religious determinism.

 

world-longing:

expression of the Cultural Soul, its desire to actualize, to fulfil its own mission in the physical world (only in the late Civilized- Winter man is this feeling overcome with “facts” and mechanics).

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physiognomic flair:

physiognomy is the outward appearance of anything, taken as offering some insight into character; Spengler refers to the art of determining character from the form of the body.

 

systematically:

an approach based on science, seeking cause and effect answers.

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