Eucken, << OY kehn, >> Rudolf (1846-1926), a German philosopher, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1908 though he wrote no works of literature. Eucken wrote many treatises on philosophy in which he advocated a philosophy of ethical activism. He strongly criticized naturalistic philosophy. Naturalism, in philosophy, is a view of the world that takes account only of natural elements and forces and excludes the supernatural or spiritual.
Rudolf Christoph Eucken was born in Aurich, Germany. He was a professor of philosophy at the University of Basel in Switzerland from 1871 to 1874 and professor of philosophy at the University of Jena in Germany from 1874 to 1920.
