Archive for May 21st, 2008

Rudolf Christoph Eucken

21st May 2008 with 0 Comments

The German philosopher, Rudolf Christoph Eucken was awarded the Nobel prize in Literature in 1908 “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 [...]

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