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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

Abelard, 347

Aeschylus, 355

Alcibiades, 351

Alexandria, 358

Antisthenes, 357, 361

Arabian, 352

Archimedes, 366

Archytas, 366

Aristotle, 351, 352, 361, 365, 366, 370

Asoka, 352

Ataraxia, 343

Athens, 347, 358

Augustine, 347

Bacon, 362, 365

 

B

Baroque, 365, 366

Bayreuth, 364

Bentham, 355, 367

Berlin, 358

Bismarck, 349

Boniface, 360

Brahman, 352, 365

Bruges, 358

Buckle, 371

Buddha, the, 341, 347, 344, 352

Buddhism, 347, 353, 356, 359, 361

 

C

Caesar, 354

Callicles, 351

Calvin, 348

Crusades, 349

China, 345, 352, 359

Christianity (Faustian), 361

Chrysippus, 358

Cistercians, 360

Comte, 367, 373,

Cousin, 367

Cynics, 342

 

D

Darwin, 343, 350, 357, 369, 370, 371, 372, 373

Descartes, 366

Diogenes, 347, 355

Dostoyevsky, 350 

Duhring, 373

 

E

Egypt, 347, 352, 359

Engels, 367, 372, 373

Enlightenment, 343t

Epictetus, 347, 352

Epicureanism, 351, 362

Epicurus, 341, 342, 347, 366, 367

 

F

Faustian (higher man), 342

Feuerbach, 373

Fichte, 362, 366, 369, 374

Fleury, 349

Francis of Assisi, 347

Franconian Emperors, 349

Frederick II(Investiture Contest), 349

Frederick William I of Prussia, 347

Freethinker, 346, 359

French Baroque, 348

 

G

Ganges, 347

Gauss, 366

German & Spanish military Orders, 350

German mystics, 350

Goethe, 354, 357, 363, 370

Gothic, 344, 345

Great Migrations, 349

Gregory VII, 349

 

H

Hannibal, 349

Haydn, 358

Hebbel, 352, 363, 367, 370, 372, 373

Hegel, 357, 366, 367, 369, 373, 374

Henry IV (Investiture Contest), 349

Henry the Lion, 349

Heraclitus, 343, 356

Herbart, 367

Hesiod, 347

Hohenstaufen, 349

Homeric (priests), 365

Huguenot wars, 349

Humbolt, 374

Hume, 365

 

I

Ibsen, 346, 347, 352, 360, 363, 364, 368, 372, 373, 374

India, 359, 369

Innocent III, 348

Ionic, 365

 

J

Jesus, 347, 361

Joachim of Floris, 363

JS Mill, 373

 

K

Kalokagathia, 351

Kant, 344, 345, 350, 354, 362, 365, 366, 368, 369

Karma, 357

 

L

Latin, 361

Legnano, Battle of, 349

Leibniz, 366

Lessing, 351

Logos, 356

Lotze, 367

Loyola, 348

Luther, 349, 355

Lysippus, 358

 

M

Magian, 345, 348

Malthus, 350, 369, 371, 373

Manchester School, 369

Manet, 358

Mani, 347

Marcion of Sinope, 347

Marcus Aurelius, 352

Marx, 367, 371, 372, 373

Materialism, 356

Mazarin, 349

Meander, 345

Mendicant Orders, 348

Milinda, 356

Mill, 367

Moravians, 348

 

N

Nagasena, 356

Newton, 366

Nietzsche, 342, 346, 347, 348, 350, 352, 357, 361, 363, 364, 366, 367, 368, 370, 371, 373, 374

Nihilism, 357

Nile, 347

Nirvana, 357

Nurnberg, 358

 

O

Origen, 348

Orphic, 361

 

P

Pantheon, 358

Paris, 358

Pascal, 348

Paul, 360

Pergamum, 352, 364

Pericles, 349, 354

Peripeteia, 351

Phidias, 358

Philo, 347

Pindar, 358

Plato, 347, 354, 366

Plotinus, 347

pre-Buddha thinkers, 365

pre-Confucian thinkers, 365

pre-Socratics, 366

Proclus, 347

Protagoras, 351, 356, 365

Proudhon, 373

Prussia, electors & kings, 349

Pythagoras, 366

 

QR

Renaissance, 345

Rhodes, 349

Richelieu, 349

Romantics, 366

Rome, 359

Roses (war of), 349

Rousseau, 352, 362, 363, 369

Russia, 345

 

S

Salvation Army, 348

Sankhya, 356

Savonarola, 348

Saxon Emperors, 349

Sceptics, 361

Schelling, 369

Schoolman, 365

Schopenhauer, 342, 352, 354, 366, 367, 368, 369, 370, 372, 373

Sensualism, 353, 356, 369

Shakespeare, 364

Shaw, 346, 350, 361, 367, 368, 369, 371, 372, 373, 374

Skandhas, 356

Socialism, 342, 347, 357, 359, 361,

Socrates, 347, 352, 353, 362

Sophists, 353, 356, 361

Sophocles, 347

Spanish, 348, 349

Spencer, 367

St Francis, 348

St Theresa, 348

Stirner,  346, 367

Stoa, 361

Stoic, 342, 352, 353, 359, 367

Strindberg,  346, 351, 374

 

T

Teutonic Knights, 349, 360

Thales, 365

Themistocles, 349

Theocritus, 358

Theosophy, 346

 

UV

Vedanta the, 352

Vedic, 361, 365

Velasquez, 358

 

W

Wagner, 352, 358, 363, 370, 372, 373

Weininger, 374

Welf, 349

 

XYZ

Zeno of Citium, 347, 354, 366

Zola, 360

Decline of the West, Chapter X:  Soul Image & Life Feeling (2) Buddhism, Stoicism & Socialism 
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