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Ideas of Ludwig Feuerbach, by Text

[German, 1804 - 1872, Born in Bavaria. Graduate of Heidelberg. Taught by Hegel. Lived quietly near Nuremberg.]

1839 Towards a Critique of Hegel's Philosophy
p.59 p.59 19441 All philosophies presuppose their historical moment, and arise from it
p.63 p.63 19442 I don't study Plato for his own sake; the primary aim is always understanding
p.65 p.65 19443 Truth forges an impersonal unity between people
p.72 p.72 19445 A dialectician has to be his own opponent
p.72 p.72 19444 Each proposition has an antithesis, and truth exists as its refutation
p.77 p.77 19446 To our consciousness it is language which looks unreal
p.82 p.82 19447 The Absolute is the 'and' which unites 'spirit and nature'
1839 Fragments on My Philosophical Development
1834-6 p.278 19458 Egoism is the only evil, love the only good; genuine love produces all the other virtues
1841 On 'The Beginning of Philosophy'
p.135 p.135 19456 Philosophy is distinguished from other sciences by its complete lack of presuppositions
1841 Introduction of 'Essence of Christianity'
I p.96 19448 Consciousness is said to distinguish man from animals - consciousness of his own species
I p.98 19449 Religion is the consciousness of the infinite
I p.99 19450 Reason, love and will are the highest perfections and essence of man - the purpose of his life
I p.100 19451 When absorbed in deep reflection, is your reason in control, or is it you?
II p.109 19452 The nature of God is an expression of human nature
II p.115 19453 If love, goodness and personality are human, the God who is their source is anthropomorphic
II p.119 19454 A God needs justice, kindness and wisdom, but those concepts don't depend on the concept of God
II p.130 19455 Today's atheism will tomorrow become a religion
1843 Principles of Philosophy of the Future
§02 p.5 6902 Catholicism concerns God in himself, Protestantism what God is for man
§07 p.10 6903 If God is only an object for man, then only the essence of man is revealed in God
§10 p.13 6904 Modern philosophy begins with Descartes' abstraction from sensation and matter
§10 p.14 6905 Absolute idealism is the realized divine mind of Leibnizian theism
§17 p.27 6908 Consciousness is absolute reality, and everything exists through consciousness
§17 p.29 6911 God is for us a mere empty idea, which we fill with our own ego and essence
§18 p.30 6913 God's existence cannot be separated from essence and concept, which can only be thought as existing
§23 p.38 6918 Philosophy should not focus on names, but on the determined nature of things
§24/5 p.38 6919 Absolute thought remains in another world from being
§27 p.42 6920 Being posits essence, and my essence is my being
§29 p.44 6921 Particularity belongs to being, whereas generality belongs to thought
§29 p.48 6923 God is what man would like to be
§29 p.48 6924 Plotinus was ashamed to have a body
§31 p.49 6925 The new philosophy thinks of the concrete in a concrete (not a abstract) manner
§33 p.52 6926 The only true being is of the senses, perception, feeling and love
§33 p.53 6927 If you love nothing, it doesn't matter whether something exists or not
§35 p.54 6928 Only that which can be an object of religion is an object of philosophy
§41 p.58 6931 Empiricism is right about ideas, but forgets man himself as one of our objects
§41 p.58 6932 Ideas arise through communication, and reason is reached through community
§45 p.63 6933 The laws of reality are also the laws of thought
§53 p.69 6935 In man the lowest senses of smell and taste elevate themselves to intellectual acts
§53 p.69 6934 Man is not a particular being, like animals, but a universal being
§59 p.71 6936 The essence of man is in community, but with distinct individuals
26 p.213 19457 Being is what is undetermined, and hence indistinguishable