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Single Idea 6923
[filed under theme 28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 4. God Reflects Humanity
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Full Idea
God is what man would like to be.
Gist of Idea
God is what man would like to be
Source
Ludwig Feuerbach (Principles of Philosophy of the Future [1843], §29)
Book Ref
Feuerbach,Ludwig: 'Principles of the Philosophy of the Future', ed/tr. Vogel,M [Hackett 1986], p.48
A Reaction
It is hard to see how even the most devout person could deny the truth of this. Perhaps the essential hallmark of humanity is a desire to be different from the way we are.
The
18 ideas
with the same theme
[God as a projection of humanity's own image]:
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150
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We cannot conceive of God, so we have to think of Him as an immortal version of ourselves
[Plato]
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2802
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Men imagine gods to be of human shape, with a human lifestyle
[Aristotle]
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2635
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The gods are happy, so virtuous, so rational, so must have human shape
[Cicero]
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22732
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The perfections of God were extrapolations from mankind
[Sext.Empiricus]
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19085
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Thinking of God as resembling humans results from a bad translation of Genesis 1:26
[Maimonides]
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9112
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We could never form a concept of God's wisdom if we couldn't abstract it from creatures
[William of Ockham]
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7411
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The attributes of God just show our inability to conceive his nature
[Hobbes]
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7830
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A talking triangle would say God is triangular
[Spinoza]
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2185
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The idea of an infinite, intelligent, wise and good God arises from augmenting the best qualities of our own minds
[Hume]
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6202
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In all naturalistic concepts of God, if you remove the human qualities there is nothing left
[Kant]
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6917
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God is the essence of thought, abstracted from the thinker
[Hegel, by 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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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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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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6923
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God is what man would like to be
[Feuerbach]
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23041
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God is the realisation of the possibilities of each man's self
[Green,TH]
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19603
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Why is God so boring, and why does God resemble humanity so little?
[Cioran]
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7470
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During the rise of civilizations, the main gods changed from female to male
[Watson]
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