Ideas from 'Principles of Philosophy of the Future' by Ludwig Feuerbach [1843], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Principles of the Philosophy of the Future' by Feuerbach,Ludwig (ed/tr Vogel,M) [Hackett 1986,0-915145-27-8]].

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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

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

6918	Philosophy should not focus on names, but on the determined nature of things

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

6904	Modern philosophy begins with Descartes' abstraction from sensation and matter

6931	Empiricism is right about ideas, but forgets man himself as one of our objects

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 1. Laws of Thought

6933	The laws of reality are also the laws of thought

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being

6919	Absolute thought remains in another world from being

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Being is what is undetermined, and hence indistinguishable

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / f. Primary being

6920	Being posits essence, and my essence is my being

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / g. Particular being

6921	Particularity belongs to being, whereas generality belongs to thought

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / h. Dasein (being human)

6926	The only true being is of the senses, perception, feeling and love

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism

6908	Consciousness is absolute reality, and everything exists through consciousness

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 4. Solipsism

6932	Ideas arise through communication, and reason is reached through community

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 6. Inference in Perception

6935	In man the lowest senses of smell and taste elevate themselves to intellectual acts

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 1. Abstract Thought

6925	The new philosophy thinks of the concrete in a concrete (not a abstract) manner

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / d. Biological ethics

6924	Plotinus was ashamed to have a body

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love

6927	If you love nothing, it doesn't matter whether something exists or not

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / a. Human distinctiveness

6934	Man is not a particular being, like animals, but a universal being

6936	The essence of man is in community, but with distinct individuals

28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / a. Ontological Proof

6913	God's existence cannot be separated from essence and concept, which can only be thought as existing

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 4. God Reflects Humanity

6903	If God is only an object for man, then only the essence of man is revealed in God

6911	God is for us a mere empty idea, which we fill with our own ego and essence

6923	God is what man would like to be

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / a. Christianity

6902	Catholicism concerns God in himself, Protestantism what God is for man

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / a. Religious Belief

6905	Absolute idealism is the realized divine mind of Leibnizian theism