00:00 Introduction and First Sentence of Book
1:00 Comparison with Hegel & Marx's Efforts to Predetermine History
3:10 Reasonable Charitable Interpretations of Spengler's Calling This the First Attempt to Predetermine History
6:10 Western Culture in "Phase of Fulfillment"
7:42 Logic of History & "Metaphysical Structure of Historic Humanity"
11:52 Predicating High Cultures to Give "Ego" & "Personality" to the "Sum of Mighty Life-Courses"
13:10 Fundamentals of "Organic Life" (Birth, Death, Youth, Age)
13:58 Tangent: American (portion of Western) Culture v. Russian Culture
16:00 Are Incorporeal "Organic" Phenomena Subject to Same Lifespan as Truly Organic Phenomena?
18:20 Comparison with Proto-Indo-European Studies
22:05 Comparison with Memetics
23:15 Does the "Organic" Lifespan Truly Apply to Cultures?
24:04 "General Biographical Archetypes" and Psycho-Analytic Influences on Spengler?
25:00 The Decline of the West is a Philosophical Problem that Contains Within Itself Every Great Question of Being
25:50 Predicting "Destiny" of Culture--Must First Define "Culture" Relationally & Symbolically
29:45 Some Criticism of the Translation of Volume One's Title
33:00 Do All the "Forms" Listed Here Belong in the Same Category?
