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