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Single Idea 6908

[filed under theme 11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism ]

Full Idea

Consciousness is the absolute reality, the measure of all existence; all that exists, exists only as being for consciousness, as comprehended in consciousness; for consciousness is first and foremost being.

Gist of Idea

Consciousness is absolute reality, and everything exists through consciousness

Source

Ludwig Feuerbach (Principles of Philosophy of the Future [1843], §17)

Book Ref

Feuerbach,Ludwig: 'Principles of the Philosophy of the Future', ed/tr. Vogel,M [Hackett 1986], p.27

A Reaction

This is Feuerbach declaring himself in favour of idealism even as he was trying to rebel against it, and move towards a more sensuous and human view of the world. I just see idealists as confusing ontology and epistemology.

The 24 ideas from 'Principles of Philosophy of the Future'

6902 Catholicism concerns God in himself, Protestantism what God is for man [Feuerbach]
6903 If God is only an object for man, then only the essence of man is revealed in God [Feuerbach]
6905 Absolute idealism is the realized divine mind of Leibnizian theism [Feuerbach]
6904 Modern philosophy begins with Descartes' abstraction from sensation and matter [Feuerbach]
6908 Consciousness is absolute reality, and everything exists through consciousness [Feuerbach]
6911 God is for us a mere empty idea, which we fill with our own ego and essence [Feuerbach]
6913 God's existence cannot be separated from essence and concept, which can only be thought as existing [Feuerbach]
6918 Philosophy should not focus on names, but on the determined nature of things [Feuerbach]
6919 Absolute thought remains in another world from being [Feuerbach]
6920 Being posits essence, and my essence is my being [Feuerbach]
6921 Particularity belongs to being, whereas generality belongs to thought [Feuerbach]
6924 Plotinus was ashamed to have a body [Feuerbach]
6923 God is what man would like to be [Feuerbach]
6925 The new philosophy thinks of the concrete in a concrete (not a abstract) manner [Feuerbach]
6927 If you love nothing, it doesn't matter whether something exists or not [Feuerbach]
6926 The only true being is of the senses, perception, feeling and love [Feuerbach]
6928 Only that which can be an object of religion is an object of philosophy [Feuerbach]
6931 Empiricism is right about ideas, but forgets man himself as one of our objects [Feuerbach]
6932 Ideas arise through communication, and reason is reached through community [Feuerbach]
6933 The laws of reality are also the laws of thought [Feuerbach]
6935 In man the lowest senses of smell and taste elevate themselves to intellectual acts [Feuerbach]
6934 Man is not a particular being, like animals, but a universal being [Feuerbach]
6936 The essence of man is in community, but with distinct individuals [Feuerbach]
19457 Being is what is undetermined, and hence indistinguishable [Feuerbach]