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and by extension Schopenhauer.

I don’t know why this isn’t talked about more, perhaps because Spengler is a “dangerous” intellectual?

Kant states that the space and time were not properties of things themselves, but forms of our perception. In other words we impose space and time on (our representations of) reality.

But the space that Kant has in mind is the simple 3-dimensional space of Euclidean geometry of his time. Mathematicians have since developed non Euclidean geometries and n-dimensional spaces. Einstein discovered that the space-time is curved and actually non Euclidean (I don’t know if Spengler knew of Einstein, I’m intruding with an illustration now). So it’s the height of hubris to claim that our minds impose (3-d Euclidean) space on reality when in fact reality is more complex than our minds can perceive.

Spengler was a great intellectual and philosopher besides historian. That is it.