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<!--QuoteBegin-ben_ami+Jul 20 2006, 01:59 PM-->QUOTE(ben_ami @ Jul 20 2006, 01:59 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->someone taking deep interest in indian philosophy does not prove it. i want to know if all the germanic philosophers of the last 200 years "DERIVED" (or were influenced) their philosophy from hinduism and buddhism. osawld spengler didnt for sure.
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spengler appears to be a nietzschean type in that he continuously refers to a "will to power" dynamic. the exaggerated, puerile"will to power" rhetoric is what develops when an inferior culture encounters a superior one and cannot graciously accept the fact, eg how the arabs felt about the persians at the eve of the islamic takeover.

we also need some work on how the new indian influence could not be digested by europe producing the fourth semitic heresy of Marxism, just as the ancient buddhist influence had mutated into christianity. and also just why this marxism emerged among the jewish intellectuals. yes i am sure that germanics like schopenhauer are plagiarizing off the jewish innovators.

spengler may also be another case of Shri RM's famous U-turn where the founding influences are erased or attributed to peripheral elements in the superior culture (eg zoroastrianism or buddhism). note this interesting "factoid":

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->wiki:  He spent his final years in Munich, listening to Beethoven, reading Molière and Shakespeare, buying several thousand books, and collecting <b>ancient Turkish, Persian and Hindu weapons. </b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Of course, no hard conclusions can formed. it is all just very very "interesting".