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محاضرات حول جوهر الدين
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Published January 1, 2022
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Ludwig Feuerbach
390 books245 followersLudwig Andreas von Feuerbach (July 28, 1804 – September 13, 1872) was a German philosopher and anthropologist best known for his book The Essence of Christianity, which provided a critique of Christianity which strongly influenced generations of later thinkers, including both Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
Feuerbach was the fourth son of the eminent jurist Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, brother of mathematician Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach and uncle of painter Anselm Feuerbach. An associate of Left Hegelian circles, Feuerbach advocated liberalism, atheism and materialism. Many of his philosophical writings offered a critical analysis of religion. His thought was influential in the development of dialectical materialism, where he is often recognized as a bridge between Hegel and Marx.
Feuerbach is best known for his criticism of Idealism and religion, especially Christianity, written in the early forties. He believed that any progress in human culture and civilization required the repudiation of both. His later writings were concerned with developing a materialistic humanism and an ethics of human solidarity. With the recent publication of a new critical edition of his works, a new generation of scholars have argued that his mature views are philosophically interesting in their own right.
His most important work, Das Wesen des Christentums (1841), was translated by George Eliot into English as The Essence of Christianity.
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Feuerbach was the fourth son of the eminent jurist Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, brother of mathematician Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach and uncle of painter Anselm Feuerbach. An associate of Left Hegelian circles, Feuerbach advocated liberalism, atheism and materialism. Many of his philosophical writings offered a critical analysis of religion. His thought was influential in the development of dialectical materialism, where he is often recognized as a bridge between Hegel and Marx.
Feuerbach is best known for his criticism of Idealism and religion, especially Christianity, written in the early forties. He believed that any progress in human culture and civilization required the repudiation of both. His later writings were concerned with developing a materialistic humanism and an ethics of human solidarity. With the recent publication of a new critical edition of his works, a new generation of scholars have argued that his mature views are philosophically interesting in their own right.
His most important work, Das Wesen des Christentums (1841), was translated by George Eliot into English as The Essence of Christianity.
More: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lud...
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/...
https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar...
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/t...
http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/bce/feu...
http://www.nndb.com/people/964/000094...
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November 5, 2024
Let us then follow the example of the pagans and let the
dead rest in peace! “The pagans,” I wrote in The Question of
Immortality,“cried out to their dead loved ones: May thy
bones rest gently! or: Rest in peace! – whereas the
Christians shout a cheery vivas etcrescas in infinitum into
the ears of the dying, or else their pietistic healers of souls à
la Dr. Eisenbart take advantage of their fear of death to
bellow at them that only the fear of God can guarantee their
eternal beatitude.” Let us then leave the dead in peace and
concern ourselves with the living. If we no longer believe in
a better life but decide to achieve one, not each man by
himself but with our united powers, we will create a better
life, we will at least do away with the most glaring,
outrageous, heartbreaking injustices and evils from which
man has hitherto suffered. But in order to make such a decision and carry it through, we must replace the love of
God by the love of man as the only true religion, the belief in
God by the belief in man and his powers – by the belief that
the fate of mankind depends not on a being outside it and
above it, but on mankind itself, that man’s only Devil is
man, the barbarous, superstitious, self-seeking, evil man,
but that man’s only God is also man himself.
With these words, gentlemen, I conclude my lectures. My
only wish is that I have not failed in the task I set myself and
formulated in the opening lectures: to transform friends of
God into friends of man, believers into thinkers, devotees of
prayer into devotees of work, candidates for the hereafter
into students of this world, Christians who, by their own
profession and admission, are “half animal, half angel,”
into men, into whole men.
dead rest in peace! “The pagans,” I wrote in The Question of
Immortality,“cried out to their dead loved ones: May thy
bones rest gently! or: Rest in peace! – whereas the
Christians shout a cheery vivas etcrescas in infinitum into
the ears of the dying, or else their pietistic healers of souls à
la Dr. Eisenbart take advantage of their fear of death to
bellow at them that only the fear of God can guarantee their
eternal beatitude.” Let us then leave the dead in peace and
concern ourselves with the living. If we no longer believe in
a better life but decide to achieve one, not each man by
himself but with our united powers, we will create a better
life, we will at least do away with the most glaring,
outrageous, heartbreaking injustices and evils from which
man has hitherto suffered. But in order to make such a decision and carry it through, we must replace the love of
God by the love of man as the only true religion, the belief in
God by the belief in man and his powers – by the belief that
the fate of mankind depends not on a being outside it and
above it, but on mankind itself, that man’s only Devil is
man, the barbarous, superstitious, self-seeking, evil man,
but that man’s only God is also man himself.
With these words, gentlemen, I conclude my lectures. My
only wish is that I have not failed in the task I set myself and
formulated in the opening lectures: to transform friends of
God into friends of man, believers into thinkers, devotees of
prayer into devotees of work, candidates for the hereafter
into students of this world, Christians who, by their own
profession and admission, are “half animal, half angel,”
into men, into whole men.
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