Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Collected Essays of Rudolf Eucken: Professor of Philosphy in the University of Jena: Nobel Prizeman 1908
Eucken seeks to bring into the apparently almost hopeless chaos of modern life and thought a positive, unifying meta physical principle - a principle that embraces all the different departments of human life and interest, scientific and religious, practical and theoretical, artistic and moral, and endeavours to assign tos' each its function in the task of the whole.
It will be found that all the following essays are inspired and connected by the central convictions thus imperfectly sketched.
The historical contributions are not mere records of past opinions. They are animated by a deep conviction that man's intellectual, moral and-religious life is an ever-growing and ever deepening possession, and that every great and sincere thinker contributes something to the advancement of the whole - not withstanding the popular belief that the history of philosophy is a mere record of transitory opinions.
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