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Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach on Religion (1804-1872)

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 By: DaboEuclid Feuerbach, leader of the left wing Hegelians was profoundly influenced by Hegel’s challenge to the Christian God. He had driven much pleasure in Hegel’s doctrine of the religious alienation of man in the master-slave relationship with the Christian God, but he debunked Hegel’s solution to such a problem. To Feuerbach, the God of the Christian do not need to be reformed, but in the other way, man need to be reformed. Man need not to be rescued from these Christian God, but he needs to be rescued from his own illusions about God. Religion does not make man, but man makes religion, it dogmas and principles are all man’s subjective thought. Man is a God on earth, any thought about a divine being called God, according to Feuerbach is a sheer sophistry and illusion. Feuerbach drew a logical conclusion of Hegel’s work in his book “The Essence of Christianity” published in 1845, in this book; He claimed that he had discovered the true the true nature of Religion. “All m...

Hegel’s Philosophy and Influences

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Hegel is the most influential of the three major German Idealists after Kant (the others are Johan Fitche and Friedrich Schelling). He achieved wide renown in his day and, while primarily influential within the continental tradition of philosophy, he also became increasingly influential in the Analytic tradition as well. Hegel has influenced many thinkers and writers whose own positions vary widely like, Karl Barth described Hegel as a “Protestant Aquinas”, while Maurice Merleau- Ponty wrote that “all the great philosophical ideas of the past century- the philosophies of Marx and Nietzche, Phenomenology, German existentialism, and psychoanalysis had their beginnings in Hegel.  Hegel’s influenced was immense both within philosophy and in the other sciences. Throughout the 19th century many chairs of philosophy around Europe were held by Hegelians, and Soren Kierkegaard, Ludwig Feuerbach, Marx, and Friedrich Engels- among many others were deeply influenced by, but also strongly oppos...