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Oswald Spengler

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Oswald Spengler was a German philosopher, historian, and cultural critic. He is best known for his influential work "The Decline of the West," published in 1918. Spengler proposed a cyclical theory of human civilization, suggesting that cultures go through specific life cycles similar to those of organisms. He believed that Western civilization was in a state of decline and discussed various factors that contributed to its downfall.

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1. Spengler's ideas about the decline of Western civilization sparked significant debate among scholars.

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