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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / b. Philosophy as transcendent

6928	Only that which can be an object of religion is an object of philosophy [Feuerbach]
	Full Idea: Only that which can be an object of religion is an object of philosophy.
	From: Ludwig Feuerbach (Principles of Philosophy of the Future [1843], §35)
	A reaction: The temple of Pythagoras at Solon sounds like an embodiment of this idea. The obvious candidate would be truth, to which philosophers must show almost religious respect. Some what motivates the philosophy of a minimalist (Idea 3750)?

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis

6918	Philosophy should not focus on names, but on the determined nature of things [Feuerbach]
	Full Idea: Philosophy need not care about the conceptions that common usage or misuse attaches to a name; philosophy, however, has to bind itself to the determined nature of things, whose signs are names.
	From: Ludwig Feuerbach (Principles of Philosophy of the Future [1843], §23)
	A reaction: I like this attempt to nip ordinary language philosophy in the bud. Indeed I like the notion of philosophy binding itself to the 'determined nature of things' (which sound like essences to me), rather than to their names or descriptions.

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy

6904	Modern philosophy begins with Descartes' abstraction from sensation and matter [Feuerbach]
	Full Idea: The beginning of Descartes' philosophy, namely, the abstraction from sensation and matter, is the beginning of modern speculative philosophy.
	From: Ludwig Feuerbach (Principles of Philosophy of the Future [1843], §10)
	A reaction: In Britain it might be said that modern philosophy begins with a rebellion against Descartes' move. Feuerbach is charting the movement towards idealism.

6931	Empiricism is right about ideas, but forgets man himself as one of our objects [Feuerbach]
	Full Idea: Empiricism rightly derives the origin of our ideas from the senses; only it forgets that the most important and essential object of man is man himself.
	From: Ludwig Feuerbach (Principles of Philosophy of the Future [1843], §41)
	A reaction: This seems to nicely pinpoint the objection of most 'continental' philosophy to British empiricism and analytic philosophy. It seems to point towards Husserl's phenomenology as the next step. It is true that empiricists divided person from world.