Rudolf Christoph Eucken - Major Works

Major Works

He was a prolific writer; his best-known works are:

  • Die Lebensanschauungen der großen Denker (1890; 7th ed., 1907; 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?).
  • 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)

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)

He delivered lectures in England in 1911 and spent six months lecturing at Harvard University and elsewhere in the United States in 1912–1913.

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