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Single Idea 19446
[filed under theme 7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / e. Ontological commitment problems
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Full Idea
To sensuous consciousness it is precisely language that is unreal, nothing.
Gist of Idea
To our consciousness it is language which looks unreal
Source
Ludwig Feuerbach (Towards a Critique of Hegel's Philosophy [1839], p.77)
Book Ref
Feuerbach,Ludwig: 'The Fiery Brook: Selected Writings', ed/tr. Hanfi,Zawar [Anchor 1972], p.77
A Reaction
Offered as a corrective to the view that our ontological commitments entirely concern what we are willing to say.
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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19445
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A dialectician has to be his own opponent
[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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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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19455
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Today's atheism will tomorrow become a religion
[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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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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6908
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Consciousness is absolute reality, and everything exists through consciousness
[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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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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