Eucken
Americannoun
noun
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This is an offshoot of classical liberalism that sprouted during the Nazi period, when dissidents around Walter Eucken, an economist in Freiburg, dreamed of a better economic system.
From Economist • May 7, 2015
Jens Weidmann, president of the German Bundesbank, often quotes Walter Eucken, especially in passages where Haftung “must go hand in hand with” control.
From Economist • May 7, 2015
Rudolf Christoph Eucken, 80, "dean of German philosophers," professor at Jena University, winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize for literature; at Jena, Germany, of pneumonia.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He does for the average reader what Bergson and Eucken are doing for scholars; he rescues the soul and its faculties from their enslavement to logic-chopping.
From My Reminiscences by Hesh, Sasi Kumar
Religious leaders have often had to be dragged to see the truth of this statement, and, as Eucken points out, many are still far from realising the seriousness of the cleft between knowledge and religion.
From An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy by Jones, W. Tudor (William Tudor)
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