Summary of Bruno Macaes's History Has Begun

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The American landscape painter Thomas Cole completed an ambitious five-canvas historical allegory titled The Course of Empire in 1836. It is graphic, spectacular, and pungent, and it carries a simple political message. Nations go through stages similar to an individual life, and they are born, they grow, but inevitably they decay.
#2 The American Republic was based on the Roman Republic, and its dissolution appeared to the first few generations of Americans as the fate against which they had to guard themselves. The classical world was also the source for a certain way of looking at history: where nations are caught in an incessant cycle of rise and fall.
#3 The Greek historian Polybius believed that when a nation departs from its founding principles, catastrophe is near. He believed that the first political system to arise is monarchy, which is followed by kingship, and then tyranny.
#4 The Roman Republic was not the first state to experience the natural course of decay. Every republic starts out with a given capital of vitality, which it uses to overcome the crises that are a necessary part of political life. But over time, that capital will be depleted.

Sujets

• International Relations
• Political Science
• General officer
• General

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 10 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822503298
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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#1

The American landscape painter Thomas Cole completed an ambitious five-canvas historical allegory titled The Course of Empire in 1836. It is graphic, spectacular, and pungent, and it carries a simple political message. Nations go through stages similar to an individual life, and they are born, they grow, but inevitably they decay.

#2

The American Republic was based on the Roman Republic, and its dissolution appeared to the first few generations of Americans as the fate against which they had to guard themselves. The classical world was also the source for a certain way of looking at history: where nations are caught in an incessant cycle of rise and fall.

#3

The Greek historian Polybius believed that when a nation departs from its founding principles, catastrophe is near. He believed that the first political system to arise is monarchy, which is followed by kingship, and then tyranny.

#4

The Roman Republic was not the first state to experience the natural course of decay. Every republic starts out with a given capital of vitality, which it uses to overcome the crises that are a necessary part of political life. But over time, that capital will be depleted.

#5

Ackerman predicted that the presidential nomination system would produce more outsiders elected because they had mobilized public opinion around extreme and unconventional programmes. He also predicted that presidents would increasingly rely on political polarization with extreme messages tailored to different micro-publics.

#6

Many American commentators argue that elites now view America as a spoils race. As countries spend large sums of money trying to lobby Washington, others perceive that they must make their move while there is still a healthy political center to prey on.

#7

The United States is a prime example of how the cycle of birth and death applies to contemporary American life. It is still in the state of consummation, but it has passed to the state of destruction, rife with internal conflict and on the verge of institutional collapse.

#8

The American Dream is a limiting idea that has left us with an empty future. The future is the true focus of history. The main question for us is to discover what America is and where it stands in the context of empty historical space.

#9

Every culture has a lifespan and a biography. The challenge is to draw their identifying traits, which Spengler does not do very well. Each culture has its own, novel possibilities. Birth, growth, strength, decline, and death. And then rebirth, but on a special type of growth and decline.

#10

The last nation of the West, according to Spengler, was America. America arose from the maternal soil of Western European culture, but lacked the inner soul of the culture.

#11

America was always conscious of its diverse heritage, and it has become a moral duty for contemporary Americans to recognize and appreciate this heritage.

#12

The notion that the most powerful country on Earth would forever remain a tributary to ideas and feelings developed elsewhere has struck many as implausible. The status of Western society has changed in recent decades, and no longer believes in the liberal world order.

#13

The West’s origins are to be found in the Hellenic society out of which it emerged. The Roman Empire assimilated the entire Hellenic society into a single political unit at the moment when this society was reaching its end, and the Church was growing from within the Empire just as it disintegrated.

#14

The American founding represents a dramatic beginning, while the creation of modern Europe is lost in an uncertain past because the principles being established were so radically new that they could not be adequately perceived and interpreted.