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Single Idea 19457
[filed under theme 7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being
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Full Idea
Being in the sense in which it is an object of speculative thought is that which is purely and simply unmediated, that is, undetermined; in other words, there is nothing to distinguish and nothing to think of in being.
Gist of Idea
Being is what is undetermined, and hence indistinguishable
Source
Ludwig Feuerbach (Principles of Philosophy of the Future [1843], 26)
Book Ref
Feuerbach,Ludwig: 'The Fiery Brook: Selected Writings', ed/tr. Hanfi,Zawar [Anchor 1972], p.213
A Reaction
This sounds remarkably like the idea of 'prime matter' used in scholastic Aristotelian philosophy. Matter existing without form is somehow ungraspable, but presented from Hegel onwards as the ultimate mystery.
Related Ideas
Idea 15771
Primary matter is what characterises other stuffs, and it has no distinct identity [Aristotle]
Idea 16589
Prime matter lacks essence, but is only potentially and indeterminately a physical thing [Auriol]
Idea 16571
Prime matter is exceptionally obscure [Zabarella]
The
41 ideas
from Ludwig Feuerbach
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19456
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Philosophy is distinguished from other sciences by its complete lack of presuppositions
[Feuerbach]
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19441
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All philosophies presuppose their historical moment, and arise from it
[Feuerbach]
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19442
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I don't study Plato for his own sake; the primary aim is always understanding
[Feuerbach]
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19443
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Truth forges an impersonal unity between people
[Feuerbach]
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19444
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Each proposition has an antithesis, and truth exists as its refutation
[Feuerbach]
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19445
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A dialectician has to be his own opponent
[Feuerbach]
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19446
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To our consciousness it is language which looks unreal
[Feuerbach]
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19447
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The Absolute is the 'and' which unites 'spirit and nature'
[Feuerbach]
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19458
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Egoism is the only evil, love the only good; genuine love produces all the other virtues
[Feuerbach]
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19451
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When absorbed in deep reflection, is your reason in control, or is it you?
[Feuerbach]
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19448
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Consciousness is said to distinguish man from animals - consciousness of his own species
[Feuerbach]
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19450
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Reason, love and will are the highest perfections and essence of man - the purpose of his life
[Feuerbach]
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19449
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Religion is the consciousness of the infinite
[Feuerbach]
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19453
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If love, goodness and personality are human, the God who is their source is anthropomorphic
[Feuerbach]
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19454
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A God needs justice, kindness and wisdom, but those concepts don't depend on the concept of God
[Feuerbach]
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19452
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The nature of God is an expression of human nature
[Feuerbach]
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19455
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Today's atheism will tomorrow become a religion
[Feuerbach]
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6902
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Catholicism concerns God in himself, Protestantism what God is for man
[Feuerbach]
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6903
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If God is only an object for man, then only the essence of man is revealed in God
[Feuerbach]
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6904
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Modern philosophy begins with Descartes' abstraction from sensation and matter
[Feuerbach]
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6905
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Absolute idealism is the realized divine mind of Leibnizian theism
[Feuerbach]
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6911
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God is for us a mere empty idea, which we fill with our own ego and essence
[Feuerbach]
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6908
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Consciousness is absolute reality, and everything exists through consciousness
[Feuerbach]
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6913
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God's existence cannot be separated from essence and concept, which can only be thought as existing
[Feuerbach]
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6918
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Philosophy should not focus on names, but on the determined nature of things
[Feuerbach]
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6919
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Absolute thought remains in another world from being
[Feuerbach]
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6920
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Being posits essence, and my essence is my being
[Feuerbach]
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6921
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Particularity belongs to being, whereas generality belongs to thought
[Feuerbach]
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6923
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God is what man would like to be
[Feuerbach]
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6924
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Plotinus was ashamed to have a body
[Feuerbach]
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6925
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The new philosophy thinks of the concrete in a concrete (not a abstract) manner
[Feuerbach]
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6927
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If you love nothing, it doesn't matter whether something exists or not
[Feuerbach]
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6926
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The only true being is of the senses, perception, feeling and love
[Feuerbach]
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6928
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Only that which can be an object of religion is an object of philosophy
[Feuerbach]
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6931
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Empiricism is right about ideas, but forgets man himself as one of our objects
[Feuerbach]
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6932
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Ideas arise through communication, and reason is reached through community
[Feuerbach]
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6933
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The laws of reality are also the laws of thought
[Feuerbach]
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6935
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In man the lowest senses of smell and taste elevate themselves to intellectual acts
[Feuerbach]
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6934
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Man is not a particular being, like animals, but a universal being
[Feuerbach]
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6936
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The essence of man is in community, but with distinct individuals
[Feuerbach]
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19457
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Being is what is undetermined, and hence indistinguishable
[Feuerbach]
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