How was Rudolf Christoph Eucken awarded the Noble Prize in Literature?

Name: Rudolf Christoph Eucken
Real Name: Rudolf Christoph Eucken
Date of Birth: January 05, 1846
Birth Place: Aurich, Kingdom of Hanover, Germany
Died: September 14, 1926
Death Place: Jena, Thuringia, Germany
Nationality: German
Education: Göttingen University Berlin University.
Popularly Known: his philosophy on the human experience
Noble Prize Year: Nobel Prize for Peace in 1908, in recognition of his earnest search for truth, his penetrating power of thought, his wide range of vision, and the warmth and strength of presentation with which, in his numerous works, he has vindicated and developed an idealistic philosophy of life