Rudolf Christoph Eucken
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Rudolf Christoph Eucken (German pronunciation:
Early life
Eucken was born on 5 January 1846 in
Career
Eucken received his
Ethical activism
Eucken's philosophical work is partly historical and partly
He maintained 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, another aspect of his ethical activism and meaning of life.
Later life and death
Rudolf Eucken married Irene Passow (1863–1941) in 1882 and had a daughter and two sons. His son
Rudolf Eucken died on 15 September 1926 in Jena at the age of 80.[4]
Major works
He was a prolific writer; his best-known works are:
- Die Lebensanschauungen der großen Denker (1890; 7th ed., 1907; 1918; Eng. trans., W. Hough and Boyce Gibson, The Problem of Human Life, 1909) (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; first appeared in 1878 as Die Grundbegriffe der Gegenwart; Eng. trans. by M. Stuart Phelps, New York, 1880) (Main Currents of Modern Thought)
- Können wir noch Christen sein? (1911) (Can We Still Be Christians?, 1914)
- 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 (1922))
Other notable works are:
- Die Methode der aristotelischen Forschung (1872) (The Aristotelian Method of Research)
- Geschichte der philosophische Terminologie (1879) (History of Philosophical Terminology)
- Prolegomena zu Forschungen über die Einheit des Geisteslebens (1885) (Prolegomena to Research on the Unity of the Spiritual Life)
- Beiträge zur Geschichte der neueren Philosophie (1886, 1905) (Contributions to the History of the Newer Philosophies)
- Die Einheit des Geisteslebens (1888) (The Unity of the Spiritual Life)
- Thomas von Aquino und Kant (1901) (Thomas Aquinas and Kant)
- Gesammelte Aufsätze zu Philosophische und Lebensanschauung (1903) (Collected Essays on Views of Philosophy and Life)
- Philosophie der Geschichte (1907) (Philosophy of History)
- Einführung in die Philosophie der Geisteslebens (1908; Eng. trans., The Life of the Spirit, F. L. Pogson, 1909, Crown Theological Library) (Introduction to the Philosophy of the Life of the Spirit)
- Hauptprobleme der Religionsphilosophie der Gegenwart (1907) (Main Problems of the Current Philosophy of Religion)
Other English translations of his work include:
- Liberty in Teaching in the German Universities (1897)
- Are the Germans still a Nation of Thinkers? (1898)
- Progress of Philosophy in the 19th Century (1899)
- The Finnish Question (1899)
- The Present Status of Religion in Germany (1901)
- The Problem of Human Life as Viewed by the Great Thinkers from Plato to the Present Time, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909.
- Back to Religion, 1912.
- Main Currents of Modern Thought: A Study of the Spiritual and Intellectual Movements of the Present Day, T. Fisher Unwin, 1912.
- The Meaning and Value of Life, A. and C. Black, 1913.
- Can we Still be Christians?, The Macmillan Company, 1914.
- Collected Essays, edited and translated by Meyrick Booth, T. Fisher Unwin, 1914.
- Knowledge and Life (translation), G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1914.
He delivered lectures in England in 1911 and spent six months lecturing at Harvard University and elsewhere in the United States in 1912–1913.
References
- ^ a b W. R. Boyce Gibson, Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy of Life, Kessinger Publishing, 2004, p. 170.
- ^ "Rudolf Eucken". Rudolf Eucken Facts. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
- ^ nobelprize.org
- ^ a b c d e "Biografie Rudolf Christoph Eucken (German)". Bayerische Nationalbibliothek. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
- ^ a b c d public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Eucken, Rudolf Christoph". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 878. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ The dissertation is available online at Internet Archive.
- ^ University, Harvard (1912). Harvard University Catalogue. The University.
- ^ "Rudolf Eucken - Biographical". www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 31 (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. pp. 13–14. .
Further reading
- Beck, Friedrich Alfred. Rudolf Eucken, Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, 1927.
- Booth, Meyrick. Rudolf Eucken: His Philosophy and Influence, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913.
- Feuling, Daniel. "Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy," The Dublin Review, Vol. CLV, July/October, 1914.
- Gibson, W. R. Boyce. Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy of Life, A. & C. Black, 1915.
- Jones, Abel J. Rudolf Eucken: A Philosophy of Life, T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1913.
- Jones, W. Tudor. Rudolf Eucken: His Life and Philosophy, Haldeman-Julius Co., 1920.
- MacSwiney, Margaret Mary. Rudolf Eucken and the Spiritual Life, National Capital Press, 1915.
External links
- Media related to Rudolf Eucken at Wikimedia Commons
- Eucken, Rudolf Christoph at Nobel-winners.com
- Works by Rudolf Eucken at Project Gutenberg
- List of Works
- Works by or about Rudolf Christoph Eucken at Internet Archive
- Works by Rudolf Christoph Eucken at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Newspaper clippings about Rudolf Christoph Eucken in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW
- Rudolf Christoph Eucken on Nobelprize.org