Educated at the universities at Gottingen and Berlin, where he studied philosophy, philology and history, Eucken received a doctorate from Gottingen. He first worked as a high school teacher for five years before being named, in 1871, professor of philosophy at the University of Basle. In 1874, he moved to Jena where he took the chair in philosophy, a position he held until his retirement in 1920. Eucken termed his philosophy that of ethical activism. In 1908, he received the Nobel prize for literature, influenced by his work The Problem of Human Life as Viewed By the Great Thinkers (1890). In 1911, he lectured in England and the following year he was an exchange professor at Harvard and lectured widely in the United States. His many works include The Fundamental Concepts of Modern Philosophic Thought (1878), The Truth of Religion (1901), Life's Basis and Life's Ideal (1907), Main Currents of Modern Thought (1908), The Life of the Spirit (1909), Religion and Life (1911), Socialism: An Analysis (1921) and The Individual and Society (1923). |
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