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

6923	God is what man would like to be

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

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