Eucken, Rudolf Christoph
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...at Basel and became professor of philosophy at Jena (1874). His work attained wide popularity, and he won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1912 he lectured at Harvard. His philosophy, known as activism, stressed personal ethical effort...