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Single Idea 6917
[filed under theme 28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 4. God Reflects Humanity
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Full Idea
In Hegel the essence of God is actually nothing other than the essence of thought, or thought abstracted from the ego, that is, from the one who thinks.
Gist of Idea
God is the essence of thought, abstracted from the thinker
Source
report of Georg W.F.Hegel (Phenomenology of Spirit [1807]) by Ludwig Feuerbach - Principles of Philosophy of the Future §23
Book Ref
Feuerbach,Ludwig: 'Principles of the Philosophy of the Future', ed/tr. Vogel,M [Hackett 1986], p.36
A Reaction
Presumably Descartes' Cogito is the origin for this train of thought. This is Feuerbach's reading of Hegel, but the former was keen on the idea of God as idealised humanity.
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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