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BY RUDOLF EUCKEN
THE MEANING ANDVALUE OF LIFE
TRANSLATED BY
LUCY JUDGE GIBSON & W. R. BOYCE GIBSON, M.A.
SECOND EDITION
FROM THE TRANSLATORS’ PREFACE
Eucken’s influence as a thinker has for long been felt far beyond the borders of his native land. Translations of his books have appeared in many foreign languages, including French, Italian, Swedish, Finnish and Russian. In our own country such articles on Eucken’s works as have appeared quite recently in theTimes, theGuardian, and theInquirerare significantly sympathetic and appreciative. ‘It seems likely,’ writes the reviewer in theGuardian, ‘that for the next decade Eucken will be the leading guide for the pilgrims of thought who walk on the Idealist Road.’
PRESS OPINION
“There are scores of passages throughout the volume one would like to quote—the thinking of a man of clearest vision and loftiest outlook on the fabric of life as men are fashioning it to-day. It is a volume for Churchmen and politicians of all shades and parties, for the student and for the man of business, for the workshop as well—a volume for every one who is seriously interested in the great business of life.”—Aberdeen Journal.
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RUDOLF EUCKEN’S
PHILOSOPHY of LIFE
By W. R. BOYCE GIBSON
LECTURER IN PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL
THIRD EDITION
With Frontispiece Portrait of Rudolf Eucken
SUMMARY OF CONTENTS
The New Idealism: Eucken’s Philosophy a Rallying-point for Idealistic Effort
The Category of Action
His Theory of Knowledge
Eucken’s View of Revelation
His Philosophy of History
The Problem of the Union of Human and Divine
The Meaning of a Historical Fact
The New Spiritual Immediacy
The Break with Aristotelianism and Aquinism
The Spiritual Life as Eucken conceives it: its Intrinsically Oppositional Character
Eucken’s Criticism of the Naturalistic Syntagma
Eucken’s Philosophy as a Philosophy of Freedom
The Great Alternative: Individuality or Personality
The New Idealism as a Religious Idealism
“No reader should fail to find pleasure in a book so full of fresh and stimulating thought, expressed with great felicity of language.”
The Scottish Review
“It is done with just the proper combination of sympathy and criticism.”—The British Weekly
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