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Paul Carus
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Paul Carus, Ph. D. (1852‑1919) was a German-American editor, born at Ilsenburg, Germany, and educated at the universities of Strassburg and Tübingen. Afterward he emigrated to the United States and established himself in Chicago, where he became editor of the Open Court and The Monist. Paul Carus married Mary (Marie) Hegeler and lived in the Hegeler Carus Mansion, built by her father, Edward Hegeler .
The eclectic Paul Carus is immortalized by the Carus Foundation, the Carus Lectures, and the American Philosophical Association. Carus considered himself a theologian rather than philosopher, however. He referred to himself as "an atheist who loved God." As a Pantheist he referred to such concepts as henism, rather than monism.
He was also a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism, to the West, sponsoring Buddhist translation work of D.T. Suzuki.
His publications include:
- The Soul of Man, (1891)
- Monism: Its Scope and Import, (1891)
- Religion of Science, (1893)
- The Gospel of Buddha, (1894) ISBN 0-87548-228-7
- The History of the Devil, (1900)
- The Surd of Metaphysics, (1903)
- The Story of Samson, (1907)
- Foundations of Mathematics, (1908)
- God, (1908)
- Pleroma, (1909)
- The Philosophy of Form, (1911)
- The Mechanistic Principle and the Non-Mechanical, (1913)
- The Principle of Relativity In the Light of the Philosophy of Modern Science, (1913)
- Nietzsche and Other Exponents of Individualism, (1914)