Education
He was educated at the universities of Göttingen and Berlin.
He was educated at the universities of Göttingen and Berlin.
From 1871 to 1874 he taught philosophy at Basel, and in the latter year was appointed to the chair of philosophy at the University of Jena, a post which he held until 1920. He was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1908, and in 1912 was exchange professor at Harvard University. In 1914 he was visiting professor at Tokyo University. Among his earlier works was Die Methode der aristotelischen Forschung (1872; "The Method of Aristotelian Logic"), but he later became interested in ethics, and books such as Einführung in die Philosophie des Geisteslebens (1908; "Introduction to the Life of the Spirit") contained his rejection of naturalism and his insistence that man is the meeting place for nature and spirit and that he can achieve good only by his own untiring efforts. Eucken was a strong supporter of the position that no blame attached to Germany for World War I.