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EUCKEN, RUDOLF CHRISTOPH (1846– )

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EUCKEN, See also:RUDOLF CHRISTOPH (1846– ) , See also:German philosopher, was See also:born on the 5th of See also:January 1846 at See also:Aurich in See also:East See also:Friesland. His See also:father died when he was a See also:child, and he was brought up by his See also:mother, a woman of considerable activity. He was educated at Aurich, where one of his teachers was the philosopher Wilhelm See also:Reuter, whose See also:influence was the dominating See also:factor in the 'development of his thought. Passing to the university of See also:Gottingen he took his degree in classical See also:philology and See also:ancient See also:history, but the See also:bent of his mind was definitely towards the philosophical See also:side of See also:theology. Subsequently he studied in See also:Berlin, especially under See also:Trendelenburg,'whose ethical tendencies and See also:historical treatment of See also:philosophy greatly attracted him. From 1871 to 1874 Eucken taught philosophy at See also:Basel, and in 1874 became See also:professor of philosophy at the university of See also:Jena. In 1908 he was awarded the See also:Nobel See also:prize for literature. Eucken's philosophical See also:work is partly historical and partly constructive, the former side being predominant in his earlier, the latter in his later See also:works. Their most striking feature is the See also:close organic relationship between the two parts. The aim of the historical works is to show the necessary connexion between philosophical concepts and the See also:age to which they belong; the same See also:idea is at the See also:root of his constructive See also:speculation. All philosophy is philosophy of See also:life, the development of a new culture, not See also:mere intellectualism, but the application of a vital religious See also:inspiration to the See also:practical problems of society. This practical See also:idealism Eucken described by the See also:term "Activism." In accordance with this principle, Eucken has given considerable See also:attention to social and educational problems.

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chief works are:—Die Methode der aristotelischen Forschung (1872) ; the important historical study on the history of conceptions, See also:Die Grundbegriffe der Gegenwart (1878; Eng. trans. by M. See also:Stuart See also:Phelps, New See also:York, 188o; 3rd ed. under the See also:title Geistige Stromungen der Gegenwart, 1904; 4th ed., 1909); Geschichte der philos. Terminologie (1879) ; Prolegomena zu Forschungen caber die Einheit See also:des Geisteslebens 1885) ; Beitrage zur Geschichte der neueren Philosophic (1886, 1905) Die Einheit des Geisteslebens ' (1888) ; Die Lebensanschauungen der grossen Denker (189o; 7th ed., 1907; Eng. trans., W. Hough and See also:Boyce See also:Gibson, The Problem of Human Life, 1909) ; Der Wahrheitsgehalt der , See also:Religion (1901; and ed., 1905) ; See also:Thomas von See also:Aquino and See also:Kant (1901); Gesammelte Aufsatze zu Philos. and Lebensanschauung (1903); Philosophic der Geschichte (1907); Der Kampf um einen geistigen Lebensinhalt (1896, 1907); Grundlinien enter neuen Lebensanschauung (1907) ; Einfi hrung in die Philosophic der Geisteslebens (1908; Eng, trans., The Life of the Spirit, F. L. Pogson, 1909, See also:Crown Theological Library) ; Der Sinn and Wert des Lebens (1908; Eng. trans., 1909); Hauptprobleme der Religionsphilosophie der Gegenwart (1907). The following of Eucken's works also have been translated into See also:English :—Liberty in Teaching in the German See also:Universities (1897) ; Are the Germans still a Nation of Thinkers? (1898) ; Progress of Philos. in the 19th See also:Century (1899); The Finnish Question (1899) The See also:Present Status of Religion in See also:Germany (19011)). See W. R. Boyce Gibson, Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy of Life (2nd ed., 1907), and See also:God with Us (1909); for the historical work, Falckenberg's Hist. of Philos. (Eng. trans., 1895, See also:index) ; also H.

Pohlmann, R. Euckens Theologie mil ihren philosophischen Grundlagen dargestellt (1903); O. Siebert, R.

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