![]() Thus, the historian identifies common features of humans and asserts that men of Babylonian, the Egyptian, the Indian, the Chinese, and Roman civilizations tend to be strong-minded and non-metaphysical (Spengler 50). Also, Spengler conducts a comparative analysis of the civilizations and their primary elements, revealing their similarities and differences. Therefore, all of these cultures are described independently in the frames of the work. The author calls his work a “morphology of history,” demonstrating that each culture should be considered separately due to the numerous differences between them (Spengler 49). Spengler reveals eight primary civilizations, such as Babylonian, Egyptian, Chinese, Indian, Greek and Roman, Arabian, Western, and Mexican. As it was mentioned above, the primary idea of the author is that history should be reviewed not in terms of time but in terms of cultures. ![]() The Decline of the West represents a philosophical discussion of Western understanding of history and introduces new ideas that contradict some Eurocentric views of history. ![]()
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