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The Problem of Human Life: As Viewed by the Great Thinkers from Plato to the Present Time
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236 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1890
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Rudolf Christoph Eucken
91 books26 followersRudolf Christoph Eucken (German: [ˈɔʏkn̩]; 5 January 1846 – 15 September 1926) was a German philosopher. He received the 1908 Nobel Prize for Literature "in recognition of his earnest search for truth, his penetrating power of thought, his wide range of vision, and the warmth and strength in presentation with which in his numerous works he has vindicated and developed an idealistic philosophy of life".
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June 18, 2023
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An excellent exposition of the needs of the spirit and life, seen through history by the main philosophers. His historical, evolutionary approach seems to me an antecedent of the creative evolution of Henri Bergson, but deeply religious.
Here I share my own reflection that his historical journey gave me, where opposites are always raised that dialectically generate progress; but that I identify not as a duality but a trinity. I would like to know your opinions on my approach.
On the other hand, I really liked the approach in which he presents us with thinkers as heroes who represent an attitude towards life, a religious existence (in Kierkegaard's way) with their approaches. I also find the explanation of why some philosophers have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, since this is constituted as a literary creation that also supports it, justifying its important role for human development within its creative activity in the world. Finally, I would like you to help me investigate why this great thinker, despite the award, seems to fall into oblivion. Thank you
An excellent exposition of the needs of the spirit and life, seen through history by the main philosophers. His historical, evolutionary approach seems to me an antecedent of the creative evolution of Henri Bergson, but deeply religious.
Here I share my own reflection that his historical journey gave me, where opposites are always raised that dialectically generate progress; but that I identify not as a duality but a trinity. I would like to know your opinions on my approach.
On the other hand, I really liked the approach in which he presents us with thinkers as heroes who represent an attitude towards life, a religious existence (in Kierkegaard's way) with their approaches. I also find the explanation of why some philosophers have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, since this is constituted as a literary creation that also supports it, justifying its important role for human development within its creative activity in the world. Finally, I would like you to help me investigate why this great thinker, despite the award, seems to fall into oblivion. Thank you
January 23, 2023
The Problem of Human Life is quite hard to read, I admit it.
The book basically does what the title reads, it goes from Plato and the Greeks thinkers to the early Positivists, and in the meantime Rudolf Eucken shows the evolution of thinking and philosophical matters in a very subjective way, quite critic in some parts, so this book is anything but an objective approach to philosophy.
You get what you expect when you open it for the first page, so definitely it's not the most interesting book, neither a best-seller, but probably a masterpiece in its genre.
It provides a wide perspective of how philosophy has addressed the common mankind problems (moral,
ethics, etc) so 5 starts because of that. And because it's the most representative book from a nobel-prize author (1908) and I'm far from being even close to that.
The book basically does what the title reads, it goes from Plato and the Greeks thinkers to the early Positivists, and in the meantime Rudolf Eucken shows the evolution of thinking and philosophical matters in a very subjective way, quite critic in some parts, so this book is anything but an objective approach to philosophy.
You get what you expect when you open it for the first page, so definitely it's not the most interesting book, neither a best-seller, but probably a masterpiece in its genre.
It provides a wide perspective of how philosophy has addressed the common mankind problems (moral,
ethics, etc) so 5 starts because of that. And because it's the most representative book from a nobel-prize author (1908) and I'm far from being even close to that.
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