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| Present: The present is the moment that is happening right now. It is the only moment that is real, and it is the only moment that we can experience directly. See also Events, Actions, Experience, Sensory impressions, Perception, Time, Past, Future, Timelessness._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Oswald Spengler on Present - Dictionary of Arguments
Brocker I 120 Present/Spengler: Spengler's thesis: in the present, the age of political formlessness, the power struggles of great style, the comprehensive, continent-spanning wars on a global political scale with the possibilities of technical progress, but also the era of self-assertion of power-conscious Caesar natures, which, as far as can be foreseen, would dominate the earth in the coming one to two centuries. >History, >Historiography, >Philosophy of history, >Power, >Progress. Hans-Christof Klaus, Oswald Spengler, Der Untergang des Abendlandes (1918/1922) in: Manfred Brocker (Hg.) Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Das 20. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt/M. 2018._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Spengler I Oswald Spengler Politische Schriften München 1932 Brocker I Manfred Brocker Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Das 20. Jahrhundert Frankfurt/M. 2018 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-16