Talk:Rudolf Christoph Eucken

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He was not Frisian, but member of the "Burschenschaft Frisia Göttingen 1863", which is something completely different. I am changing that to German. You could argue that his hometown is in Frisia, but that is like saying George Washington is Virginian.

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I tried to correct his birthplace today and screwed up his page, his portrait is now missing. I'm sorry, and will not mess with this again. My change was meant well. Hanover was conquered by Prussia in 1866, at that time it became a Prussian province. The German Empire was declared in 1871 at the victorious conclusion of the Franco-Prussian War. At which time Prussia became the largest state, or kingdom in this new entity, Germany. Hanover now existed as a Prussian province, with the Prussian government mediating between it and the Imperial German government. (But ofcourse before 1918 the Kaiser's government was appointed as the executive branch of government for both Prussia and the new German Empire, an unusual arrangment that was the child of how this nation was formed by Prussian military prowess followed by German pride in it's success and nationalism. So the gist of it is he was born in an independent European kingdom, Hanover. Not in a yet to come German Empire. Prussia (2/3 of Germany, when it existed, was created by war. Germany in 1871 was created by acclimation by the monarchs of the surviving German states (minus Luxumbourg, and ofcourse Austria-Hungary). When he was born he would have been a subject of Hanover with no loyalty to the then Prussian government in Berlin. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Whippersnapper1 (talk • contribs) 06:37, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Falsified quote

“ It seems as if man could never escape from himself, and yet, when shut in to the monotony of his own sphere, he is overwhelmed with a sense of emptiness. The only remedy here is radically to alter the conception of man himself, to distinguish within him the narrower and the larger life, the life that is straitened and finite and can never transcend itself, and an infinite life through which he enjoys communion with the immensity and the truth of the universe. Can man rise to this spiritual level? On the possibility of his doing so rests all our hope of supplying any meaning or value to life
—R. C. Eucken (Der Sinn und Wert des Lebens, 1908, p. 81 as cited in Evelyn Underhill (1911), Mysticism, p. 39) ”

If you read carefully, you will see that Evelyn Underhill (1911), Mysticism, p. 39 does not correspond to R. C. Eucken, Der Sinn und Wert des Lebens, 1908, p. 81. Apparently Underhill forged the quote (or she could just be mistaken). In any case we cannot have a poorly sourced quote in the article. --Omnipaedista (talk) 03:32, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

I do not think anyone would object if you removed it. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 03:54, 6 June 2016 (UTC)