Oswald Spengler on Cultural Relativism

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[@DawsonSWilliams]

This is perfect, Johannes.
From Spengler:
“The old riddles and perplexities now resolve themselves. There are as many morales as there are Cultures, no more and no fewer […] Each Culture possesses its own standards, the validity of which begins and ends with it. There is no general morale of humanity.” (Decline Vol. I P 345)

[@mapleandsteel]

This beautiful channel is what convinced me to read the Bhagavad Gita. Thank you for your work, Johannes.

[@JohannesNiederhauser]

Thank you very much

[@clumsydad7158]

beautiful video
we are a zoological experiment - driven fundamentally as beings who exist and procreate and consume as others, with a Swiftian thin veil of rationality over the top; a deceptive sheen that masks our deep kinship with all other creatures.
each culture with own version of passions, own expression of ideas, own encounter with meaning and death
i think the critique of post-modernism is helpful here, in that i believe post-modernism correctly exploded our notions of truth, but that when one circumspectfully reviews the damage/wreckage from this, one realizes that truth is not random, but that there is an organic pattern underlying all. in that each version of truth is different, with various premises and implications, but there is a rootedness and evolution of meaning in each, or in a Wittgenstenian sense, a parochial/localized creation of understanding and values.

[@HelsinkiFINketeli_berlin_com]

As a theoretical philosopher (ontology, philosophy of science, etc etc) 35 or so years, plus student also of practical philosophy, plus aesthetics and art history and philosophy, plus literature studies, languages from attika, koiné and latin and philosophy of language etc. from the University on and at the same time 40 years a Mahayana Buddhist (and not so as a monk anyhow but more so as a student of it's ontology, philosophy, history et al.) and so would reflect and so contribute and give and share so much. and as a sailor in the air, dry ground, and seas over the globe, and knowing cultures, their histories, myths, religions and folklore so would so love to take part to your teaching and seminars like this, but we the long and deep and broad education having thinkers aren't needed anywhere so I'm constantly broke. And because always monetized all my thousands of books, travels and teachings et alia by myself alone as well. Academia doesn't give and think anything at all these days, which is why I cut my ties too to all it 20+ years ago. And not even Freiburg which welcomed me quite recently when I asked writing a sentence or two by my left hand about any possibility to study in this age, soon 60, in Germany in general being a Finn and living now in Finland (however just an hour ago got home from Sweden and the mountainious swedish countryside 200 km from any bigger town where 3 weeks) but couldn't find anything even from their menu or diet to nourish my passion and enthusiasm to learn, study and think but give me a PhD. For what?
Herr Niederhauser I see and hear in your thinking the long awaited andere Anfang so I keep myself fortunate to be your contemporary and having at least an opportunity to listen to both you and your visiting thinkers, respectively, from CZcams.
With the great admiration, appreciation and respect, my most humble thanking to you, yours K. K.

[@clumsydad7158]

yes, thinkers are normally broke - there's little value in revelations that have no direct value or can only be understood with specific prerequisites of knowledge/inquiry. commodities are fungible or easily recognizable/desirable - abstruse ideas are not. but the ways and paths of thinking and revealing have subtle ways of gradually transcending the normative and opening new futures for new generations. good luck