Spengler,a well-known German historian and philosopher,systematically elaborated on his theory of cultural morphology of history in his masterpiece The Decline of the West,which has generated great repercussions in the academic circles at home and abroad,but there are few monographs on Spengler's interpretation of the concept and connotation of ethnic group as an important unit in the study of civilization and culture.In this paper,Spengler's unique insight on the concept and classification of ethnic groups,and other related issues,are sorted out and interpreted.On the basis of questioning the traditional concept and attributes of ethnic groups,he proposed that the nation(people)is a unit of spirit(soul),which should be divided into three types:primitive people,cultural people,and post-cultural people(Fellah-peoples).The cultural people is an extremely important organic part in his system of thought on the historical view of cultural morphology,and is the only historical people.In the relationship between culture and people,he was extremely creative in proposing that it is the great culture that creates the people rather than the people that creates the culture.Although Spengler is not a specialized ethnologist,his unique and profound"perspective"analysis of ethnic connotation,especially cultural people,from the perspective of historical role and cultural form with culture as the center,has a high academic reference value for us to expand the direction and thinking in the study of ethnic issues.
SpenglerHistorical view on cultural morphologyCultural people
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