Chapter I: Front Matter

LIFE'S BASIS AND LIFE'S IDEAL

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

THE MEANING AND VALUE OF LIFE

Translated by W. R. BOYCE GIBSON
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RUDOLF EUCKEN'S PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE

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LIFE'S BASIS AND LIFE'S IDEAL

THE FUNDAMENTALS OF A NEW PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE

BY

RUDOLF EUCKEN
PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF JENA

TRANSLATED, WITH INTRODUCTORY NOTE

BY

ALBAN G. WIDGERY
FORMERLY SCHOLAR OF ST. CATHARINE'S COLLEGE, AND BURNEY STUDENT,
CAMBRIDGE, AND MEMBER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF JENA

LONDON
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
1912

_First published December 1911_
_Second and Revised Edition, February 1912_

CONTENTS

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TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTORY NOTE vii

AUTHOR'S PREFACE xxi

I. INTRODUCTORY: THE PHILOSOPHIES OF LIFE IN THE PRESENT DAY 1

PRELIMINARY REMARKS 3

I. STATEMENT AND CRITICISM OF INDIVIDUAL SYSTEMS OF LIFE 6
(a) The Older Systems 6
1. The Religious System 6
2. The System of Immanent Idealism 15
(b) The Newer Systems 22
1. The Naturalistic System 24
2. The Socialistic System 41
3. The System of Æsthetic Individualism 61

II. Consideration of the Situation as a Whole, and
Preliminaries for Further Investigation 81
(a) The Nature of the New as a Whole and its Relation to
the Old 81
(b) The Condition of the Present 86
(c) The Form of the Problem 92

II. THE OUTLINE OF A NEW PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE 99
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS AND CONSIDERATIONS 101