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See also:RUDOLF CHRISTOPH See also:EUCKEN (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 See also: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 .
His See also:chief works are:—See also:Die Methode der aristotelischen Forschung (1872) ; the important historical study on the history of conceptions, Die Grundbegriffe der Gegenwart (1878; Eng. trans. by M
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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
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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
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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: Pohlmann, R . Euckens Theologie mil ihren philosophischen Grundlagen dargestellt (1903); O . Siebert, R . |
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