Rudolf Eucken

Rudolf Christoph Eucken (January 5, 1846 - September 15, 1926) was a frisian philosopher, and the winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize for Literature. Image File history File links Rudolf Eucken (1846-1926), german philosopher and nobel prize winner (literature, 1908) File links The following pages link to this file: Rudolf Christoph Eucken ... Image File history File links Rudolf Eucken (1846-1926), german philosopher and nobel prize winner (literature, 1908) File links The following pages link to this file: Rudolf Christoph Eucken ... January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... September 15 is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years). ... 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... A philosopher is a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy. ... 1908 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes...

He was born in Aurich, Hanover (now Germany), and studied at Göttingen University and Berlin University. In 1871, after five years working as a school teacher, he was appointed Professor of Philosophy at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He stayed there until 1874 when he took up a similar position at the University of Jena, Germany in 1874. He stayed there until he retired in 1920. He married in 1882 and had a daughter and two sons. His son Walter Eucken became a famous founder of neoliberal thought in economics. This is an article about the city Aurich. ... -1... The Georg-August University of Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, often called the Georgia Augusta) was founded in 1734 by George II, King of Great Britain and Elector of Hanover, and opened in 1737. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... 1871 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... These five broad types of question are called analytical or logical, epistemological, ethical, metaphysical, and aesthetic respectively. ... Location within Switzerland Basel (English traditionally: Basle , German: Basel , French Bâle , Italian Basilea ) is Switzerlands third most populous city (188,000 inhabitants in the canton of Basel-City as of 2004; the 690,000 inhabitants in the conurbation stretching across the immediate cantonal and national boundaries made Basel... 1874 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Map of Germany showing Jena Jena is a town in central Germany on the River Saale. ... 1874 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1920 (MCMXX) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

His philosophy was based around human experience, maintaining that humans have souls, and that they are therefore at the junction between nature and spirit. He believed that people should overcome their non-spiritual nature by continuous efforts to achieve a spiritual life. He called this Ethical activism. The soul, according to many religious and philosophical traditions, is the ethereal substance — spirit (Hebrew:rooah or nefesh) — particular to a unique living being. ...

He was a prolific writer; his best-known works are:

• Die Lebensanschauungen der großen Denker (1890) (The Problem of Human Life as Viewed by the Great Thinkers)
• Der Kampf um einen geistigen Lebensinhalt (1896) (The Struggle for a Spiritual Content of Life),
• Der Wahrheitsgehalt der Religion (1901) (The Truth of Religion),
• Grundlinien einer neuen Lebensanschauung (1907) (Life's Basis and Life's Ideal: The Fundamentals of a New Philosophy of Life),
• Der Sinn und Wert des Lebens (1908) (The Meaning and Value of Life)
• Geistige Strömungen der Gegenwart (1908) (Main Currents of Modern Thought)
• Können wir noch Christen sein? (1911) (Can We Still Be Christians?).
• Present Day Ethics in their Relation to the Spiritual Life (1913) (Deem Lectures given at New York University)
• Der Sozialismus und seine Lebensgestaltung (1920) (Socialism: an Analysis)

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