- Rudolf Christoph Eucken
Infobox Writer
name = Rudolf Christoph Eucken
awards = awd|Nobel Prize in Literature |1908
birthdate = birth date|1846|1|5|mf=y
birthplace =Aurich , Hanover,German Empire
deathdate = death date and age|1926|9|15|1846|1|5|mf=y
deathplace =Jena ,Thuringia , Germany
nationality = GermanRudolf Christoph Eucken (
January 5 ,1846 —September 15 ,1926 ) was a Germanphilosopher , and the winner of the 1908Nobel Prize for Literature .Biography
He was born in
Aurich , Hanover (nowGermany ), and studied atGöttingen University andBerlin University. In 1871, after five years working as a school teacher, he was appointed Professor ofPhilosophy at the University ofBasel ,Switzerland . He stayed there until 1874 when he took up a similar position at the University ofJena , Germany in 1874. He stayed there until he retired in 1920. From 1913-1914 he served as guest lecturer atNew York University . He married in 1882 and had a daughter and two sons. His sonWalter Eucken became a famous founder of neoliberal thought in economics.Eucken died in
Jena at the age of 80.His philosophy was based around human experience, maintaining that humans have
soul s, 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 thisEthical activism .Major works
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)He delivered lectures in
England in 1911 and spent six months lecturing atHarvard University and elsewhere in theUnited States in 1912–1913.External links
* [http://www.nobel-winners.com/Literature/rudolf_christoph.html Eucken, Rudolf Christoph ] at www.nobel-winners.com
*gutenberg|no=14357|name=Rudolph Eucken : a philosophy of life (ByAbel J. Jones )
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